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Annual report of an ongoing Water Quality and Quantity monitoring program on Wigwam River in the East Kootenays.
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Author: Westslope Fisheries Ltd., Angela Prince M.Sc., R.P. Bio.
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Date Published: Feb 2003
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Report ID: 207
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Audience: Government and Public
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The purpose of this Water Resource Inventory is to enable short and long-term evaluation of the water resource. The monitoring program has been designed to achieve a better understanding of existing conditions for select parameters and the ongoing hydrologic and morphologic processes in the upper Wigwam River, especially as they relate to fish spawning habitat quality. These conditions may then be tracked over time as forest development progresses. Specific objectives were:
Focus monitoring on forest development activities, including harvesting and stream crossings, to detect whether site-specific impacts are occurring with possible ramifications for fish habitat conditions; and Monitor conditions over time to provide a better understanding and characterization of the hydrology, morphology and select habitat parameters of the upper Wigwam River.
Referring to Resources Inventory Committee (RIC) documentation on water quality monitoring objectives, the Wigwam monitoring program represents a trend monitoring program that includes specific elements designed to enable impact assessment monitoring at a site level (Cavanagh et. al. 1998a). To achieve program objectives, the following program components were implemented:
A Hydrometric station for continuous monitoring of upper Wigwam River streamflow, rainfall, air temperature, water temperature and development of a rating curve through correlation of manual stream discharge measurements and river stage;
Continuous monitoring of water quality (total suspended solids (TSS), turbidity) at two mainstem locations above and below the focal forest development area; Continuous monitoring of water table fluctuations of the upper Wigwam River spawning grounds directly upstream of Brewery Creek; Continuous water temperature monitoring of 4 representative S4 and S6 tributaries, above and below proposed harvest boundaries; Periodic sampling of water quality (TSS, turbidity, temperature) at proposed bridge crossing locations (Desolation Creek, Brewery Creek), representative S4 and S6 tributaries, and three mainstem river locations (grab sample locations n=10).
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Region - Kootenay |
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Watershed Groups - 349 - Upper Kootenay |
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Water Information - Water Quality |
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