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Review of Cattle-Community Watershed Conflicts in the Skeena Region
This report provides the B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks (BCE) with a review of cattle farming in the Skeena Region, and a recommendation for monitoring the impact of cattle and other livestock operations on community watersheds, including... -
Water Quality in British Columbia Objectives Attainment
The setting of water quality objectives in priority basins in British Columbia began in 1982. By the end of 2002, the Ministry of Water, Land, and Air Protection had set water quality objectives in 51 areas or basins and updated them throughout the... -
Water Quality Objectives for Bulkley and Morice Rivers (1986)
This report includes an assessment of present water quality, a prediction of future water quality, recommended water uses that should be protected, and recommended monitoring to check whether those objectives are being met and to develop future objectives. -
Skeena-Nass Area Water Quality Assessment and Objectives: Technical Appendix
This report assess present water quality of the mainstem Bulkley and Morice Rivers, to predict future water quality, and to recommend water uses that should be protected, and to recommend provisional water quality objectives to protect those uses. -
Skeena-Nass Area Bulkley River Basin Water Quality Assessment and Objectives
This historical report includes: (i) an assessment of water quality using available information (up to April, 1984) on waste discharges, water quality, streamflows, and water uses; (ii) a prediction of future water quality, considering future waste... -
Seymour Lake: 1984 Data Summary and Recommendation
The 1984 sampling program for Seymour Lake was designed to provide nutrient loading data for the lake such that a management prescription for the lake and watershed management guidelines could be proposed. Water quality sampling of the lake showed that... -
Prince Rupert Landfill Leachate: Impact on Hays Creek
This report documents the leachate and creek water chemistry findings and remove all doubt that the creek is adversely affected. -
Lakelse Lake Water Quality Assessment and Objectives
This study assesses the water quality of Lakelse Lake. A summary report and detailed technical appendix are included. Report published February 1986. -
Kathlyn, Seymour, Round, and Tyhee Lakes: Water Quality Assessment and Object...
This study quantifies the inputs of phosphorus from various sources and determines the extent to which additional phosphorus could be tolerated by each lake without a serious decrease in water quality. Based on this information, appropriate land uses and... -
Interim Assessment Protocol for Aquatic Ecosystems in British Columbia: Stand...
The Aquatic Ecosystems assessment protocol currently describes the derivation of a core set of watershed indicators that can be calculated consistently across the province using GIS data layers readily available from GeoBC or other ministry providers. The... -
Drinking Water Source Quality Monitoring 2002-03: Lakelse Lake and Mountain C...
This document is part of a series presenting results of the B.C. Ministry of Environment (MoE, formerly Water, Land and Air Protection, WLAP) Skeena Region’s 2002-03 drinking water source quality monitoring program. It assesses drinking water sources in the... -
Consequences of Unregulated Release of Raw Acid Mine Drainage into the Bulkle...
Approximately 800 000 m3 of acid mine drainage (AMD) is generated per year at the Equity Silver Mine southeast of Houston. This AMD would have devastating effects on the Bulkley River if it was allowed to flow untreated from the property for a prolonged... -
BC Surface Water Monitoring Sites
The Surface Water Monitoring Sites web application allows users to browse a map interface to find freshwater monitoring locations throughout BC. Clicking on a station provides the name and description of the water quality monitoring station as well as... -
BC Environmental Monitoring System Results
The Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) test results as .csv files available for download. Results include physical, chemical and biological analyses of samples taken from water, air, solid waste discharges and ambient monitoring sites throughout the... -
BC Environmental Monitoring System (EMS)
The Environmental Monitoring System (EMS), is the Ministry of Environment corporate electronic repository for the capture and extraction of results for chemical, physical and biological analysis performed on air, water, biological, solid waste discharge,... -
Attainment of Water Quality Objectives for Lakelse Lake in 2001-2003
Designated water uses for Lakelse Lake include raw drinking water supplies, primary-contact recreation, and aquatic and wildlife use. Water quality objectives set to protect the lake for these designated uses include: fecal coliform concentrations at... -
Effects of Equity Silver Mine on Goosly Lake
A report on the effects of the seepage and spill contaminates from Equity Silver Mine, near Houston, on lake water quality and biota in Goosly Lake.