Stream Habitat Compensation Program, Panda Diversion Channel, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, May 1998)
This is BHP Diamonds Inc.'s Stream Habitat Compensation Program report for the Panda Diversion Channel at Ekati Mine, describing the design, construction, and monitoring plans for creating fish habitat as compensation for impacts from mine development. The report details the physical characteristics of the constructed diversion channel between Panda and Kodiak Lakes, its hydrology, fish species present, and comprehensive habitat enhancement designs including fish passage structures, boulder clusters, and riffles to support arctic grayling, lake trout, and other native species.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Dillon Consulting, Rescan Environmental Services
- Locations
- Ekati Mine, Northwest Territories, Panda Lake, Kodiak Lake, Koala Watershed, Grizzly Lake, Buster Lake, Koala Lake, Yellowknife
- Parameters
- fish habitat creation, water quality, stream flow, channel hydrology, fish passage, culvert design, arctic grayling, lake trout, round whitefish, burbot, slimy sculpin, habitat monitoring, benthic invertebrates, channel erosion, water velocity
- Pages
- 179
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