Various Lake Studies Preliminary Screening, Desperation and Carrie Ponds, Misery Pipe (BHP Billiton, May 2001)
This preliminary screening report documents BHP Diamonds Inc.'s application to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for authorization to develop Desperation and Carrie Ponds as part of the Misery Pit waste rock storage facility at Ekati Diamond Mine. The report quantifies fish habitat losses (0.587 weighted habitat units) and proposes compensatory enhancements to other water bodies to achieve no net loss of fish productivity.
- Date
- 2001-05-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Dillon Consulting Limited, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada, Environmental Assessment Review Panel (EARP)
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Desperation Pond, Carrie Pond, Misery Pit, Misery Lake, King Pond, Lac de Gras, Cujo Lake, Thinner Lake, Mist Lake
- Parameters
- fish habitat, Arctic grayling, habitat units, waste rock storage, mine water drainage, spawning habitat, overwintering habitat, rearing habitat, fish passage, pond substrate, stream substrate, no net loss policy, habitat compensation, habitat enhancement
- Pages
- 36
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