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4.0 RESULTS OVERVIEW
4.1 LIST OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION REPORTS
RESULTS OVERVIEW
A total of four public consultation reports were prepared between 1991 and 1994, three of
which were PWFWCP reports:
(1) Becker, G.K. 1992. Public Consultation Report 1991/92. PWFWCP, Report No. 17.
12 pp. (Location: PWFWCP Library, PG)
(2) Bemister, C. 1993. Public Consultation Report 1992/93. PWFWCP, Report No. 27.
23 pp. (Location: PWFWCP Library, PG)
(3) Hallam Knight Piesold Ltd. 1994. Kemess South Gold-Copper Project, Application
Report: Responses to Reviewers’ Information Requests. Prepared for El Condor
Resources Ltd. and St. Philips Resources Inc. and British Columbia Environmental
Assessment Office, Victoria. (Location: Pollution Prevention, PG)
(4) Read, D.J. 1991. Public Consultation Report 1990/91. PWFWCP, Report No. 9. 16
pp. (Location: PWFWCP Library, PG)
4.2 PROJECT DISTRIBUTIONS AND SUBJECT MATTER
Documentation on Williston Reservoir Watershed has focussed on the Williston Reservoir
Residual (87 documents), Crooked-Pack Rivers (79), Nation River (73) and Finlay River (69)
sub-basins (Figure 2a). However, if analyzed on a “per-unit-area-of-watershed” basis, the
Dinosaur Reservoir (38 documents per 1000 km 2 ), Manson River (16) and Crooked-Pack
(14) sub-basins have been studied the most to date (Figure 2b).
As shown in Figure 3, most of the work done to date has been in categories of “Inventory”
and “Planning”. Most “Impact Assessment” work has been undertaken in view of
industrial mines (e.g., gold and copper) proposed for portions of the Finlay River (18
documents), Williston Reservoir Residual (14) and Peace Reach (5) sub-basins. Very little
“Basic Research” has been conducted in the watershed to date. One research project that
is relevant to all sub-basins is the “Arctic Grayling DNA” work summarized by M. Stamford
in 1996 (see “Basic Research” sections below). Other research projects include a study of
white sucker and largescale sucker hybridization (Williston Reservoir Residual and Crooked
Pack Rivers; see Nelson, J.S. (1974). Syesis, Vol. 7, pp. 187-194), and a study of
paleoichthyology (Peace Reach; see Johns, M.J. et al. (1997), Geological Survey of
Canada Bulletin 502). “Enhancement” projects include the Mesilinka River fertilization
experiment and numerous fish-stocking programs.
There are 16 flow gauging stations and 41 EMS stations in the Williston Reservoir
Watershed (Figure 4).
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