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Cheakamus River Benthic Community Monitoring, Progress Report 11 Task number 7 Performance measure development 8 Reporting and Database compilation Description Progress Completion dates 3.2 6BProject Management • Performance measures will be developed at the time of statistical analysis and modeling in February – April 2010. • Following submission of this progress report, a draft project report is expected to be submitted on May 31,2010 and a final report on July 31, 2010. • Database is under development and is expected to be ready for upload of new data by May 31, 2009. It will be populated with new data upon availability. • Data uploads are being tested followed by adjustments and further tests using Cheakamus benthos and habitat data from 1996 and 2000. • To be done in February – April, 2010. • Database structure to be complete by May 31, 2009. • Uploads to the database to proceed as data becomes available. • Most downloads will occur in February – April, 2010 during data analysis and modeling. • Draft report to be submitted May 31, 2010. • Final report to be submitted July 31, 2010. The project is being managed by Chris Perrin, senior systems ecologist at Limnotek. Tasks include budget management to ensure costs stay in line with budget limits, organization of logistics, scheduling, preparation and execution of a health and safety plan, technical review, data organization, lab liaison, team organization, and client liaison. Chris Perrin is also communicating with regulatory agencies as necessary. This situation has occurred once to date. During the winter sampling series algal biomass at upstream stations was very high and possibly exceeded Provincial water quality guidelines. As part of due diligence, Ministry of Environment personnel were informed of the observations following discussion with Brent Mossop, one of the BC Hydro contract authorities. A change to personnel was made in early 2009. The death of Kiyo Masuda, crew chief from Limnotek, required a shift in team responsibilities for the remainder of the project. The project manager, Chris Perrin, is now participating more in field activities, taking on responsibilities previously done by Kiyo as well as project management tasks. This change is proving to be a benefit with fewer levels of communication among team members and more direct observation in the field by Chris Perrin than was possible Limnotek/InStream November 2009
Cheakamus River Benthic Community Monitoring, Progress Report 12 earlier in the project. These changes will improve the eventual interpretation of modeling outcomes by Chris Perrin. There is no change to the project budget from these changes in personnel. The project remains on schedule and on budget. As part of project management activities, the budget is reviewed monthly and its status is reported to the project authority at BC Hydro. The last status report for February 28, 2009 showed expected costs to date and expected budget remaining. 3.3 7BScoping Meeting and Review of Safety Procedures A scoping meeting was held June 3, 2008 in Vancouver between senior team members (Chris Perrin and Kiyo Masuda) and the project authorities (Ian Dodd and Brent Mossop). The proposed work plan was approved in its entirety. Work will include consideration of different modeling approaches as well as the CBM for use in determining the importance of variation in flow for river health. The meeting was followed with preparation of a project – specific health and safety plan that was submitted to BC Hydro on June 10, 2008. No changes to this plan were required. This plan contained details and procedures that were discussed and approved during the scoping meeting. We were informed that lockout procedures at Daisy Dam were required for sampling at CH4, which is located immediately downstream of the Daisy spillway. Consequently, all team members completed the work place practice safety course at BC Hydro in July 2008, before field work commenced. On the first day of field work, the team received local component training at Daisy Dam to become familiar with all lockout procedures at the dam. These procedures were followed on each day of sampling at CH4 during both the summer 2008 and winter 2009 sampling that is now complete and they will continue to be followed for the remaining sampling in spring and fall 2009. During the scoping meeting, we were provided with names of people to contact to make arrangements for routine lockouts during the sampling periods. 3.4 8BPreparation for Field Sampling Artificial substrata described by Perrin (2001) are being used for all measurements of periphyton and benthic invertebrate composition, abundance, and biomass. Each periphyton sampling surface is a 30 x 30 x 0.64 cm sheet of open celled Styrofoam (Floracraft Corp. Pomona Corp. CA) attached to a waterproofed plywood plate and bolted to a concrete block (Figure 2). Benthic invertebrates are being collected using a chicken barbecue basket (30 cm long x 14 cm wide x 14 cm deep; surface area of 0.042 m 2 ) filled with gravel having a standard diameter of 2.5 - 3.5 cm (Figure 3). All samplers were pre-fabricated and assembled in August before the summer sampling series started later that month. In addition, a temperature logger (StowAway Limnotek/InStream November 2009
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