Guidelines for Tailings Impoundment in the Northwest Territories (GNWT, February 1987)
The Northwest Territories Water Board's February 1987 guidelines provide comprehensive technical standards and procedures for designing, constructing, operating, and abandoning tailings impoundment facilities in the unique permafrost environment of the NWT, addressing site selection, design considerations specific to cold regions, construction methods, operational control, and closure planning.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- Northwest Territories Water Board, L.P. Stephenson, Cominco Ltd., W.A. Case, J.B. Wilson, A.G. Redshaw, J.K. Gowans, B.C. Cross, R.G. Killam, Hardy Associates (1978) Ltd., Glenn B. Warner, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Federal Environmental Assessment and Review Office
- Locations
- Northwest Territories, Canada, Yellowknife, Arctic archipelago, Precambrian Shield, Western Cordillera, Interior Plains, Mackenzie River Valley, Siberia, Northern Europe, Mackenzie River delta
- Parameters
- tailings impoundment, tailings disposal, water quality, permafrost, ground ice, slope stability, seepage control, thaw settlement, frost penetration, dam design, foundation stability, effluent discharge, water storage, mine closure, abandonment and restoration
- Pages
- 38
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