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Cheakamus River Benthic Community Monitoring, Progress Report
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many people are thanked for past and ongoing contributions to this project. The
work was completed under contract to BC Hydro. Brent Mossop and Ian Dodd (BC
Hydro) were the contract managers. Both Brent and Ian are thanked for numerous
discussions and input as the project proceeds. The author was assisted in the field by
Caroline Melville, L.J. Wilson, Dani Ramos, Heath Zander, Jason Ladell, and Breanne
Patterson, all of InStream Fisheries Research Ltd. Lockouts at Daisy Dam were required
as a safety protocol for sampling close to the spillway. People assisting with lockout
procedures included Sarah Wood, Dorothy Ong, Alexis Hall, and electrical staff, all of BC
Hydro. Special thanks goes to the late Kiyo Masuda (Limnotek) who tirelessly organized
logistics, provided liaison with labs, and compiled early data. Danusia Dolecki is working
on benthic invertebrate enumerations and biomass measurements. John Stockner is
completing the periphyton identifications and enumerations. Ongoing water lab services
are being provided by the Pacific Environmental Science Centre and the Fisheries and
Oceans Canada low level nutrients lab located at Cultus Lake.
Fish stomach samples were collected by Randall Lewis (Squamish Nation) and
Alan Kenney (Golder Associates Ltd.) from sampling in fall 2008 during fish salvage
activities upstream of the Cheakamus canyon. Josh Korman is presently collecting fish
stomach samples (steelhead and coho) from sites downstream of the Cheakamus
canyon.
viii Limnotek/InStream
November 2009