- Library Home /
- Search Collections /
- Open Collections /
- Browse Collections /
- British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium /
- Lake creation and development at an Alberta foothills...
Open Collections
British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium
Lake creation and development at an Alberta foothills coal mine Brinker, Curtis
Abstract
The creation of lakes for fisheries habitat and recreational opportunities can be a cost-effective method of reclaiming coal mine pits. In the Alberta foothills environment, the sustainable viability of such lakes is a key consideration in determining how appropriate this technique is. In the past six years, two sets of lakes have been created in the final cuts of dragline pits at the Coal Valley Mine, in the Alberta foothills. These two lakes have been designed and constructed to meet recreational and fisheries habitat land uses. Data collected from these lakes since their creation, indicate that water quality characteristics are suitable for development of both end land uses. Results of recent biotic surveys indicate that benthic and aquatic macrophyte communities are establishing, and that a limited fish stocking program could now be supported. This paper discusses the physical and biological characteristics of these two lakes in terms of their long-term viability and fulfillment of land use objectives.
Item Metadata
Title |
Lake creation and development at an Alberta foothills coal mine
|
Creator | |
Contributor | |
Date Issued |
1991
|
Description |
The creation of lakes for fisheries habitat and recreational
opportunities can be a cost-effective method of reclaiming coal
mine pits. In the Alberta foothills environment, the sustainable
viability of such lakes is a key consideration in determining how
appropriate this technique is.
In the past six years, two sets of lakes have been created in
the final cuts of dragline pits at the Coal Valley Mine, in the
Alberta foothills. These two lakes have been designed and
constructed to meet recreational and fisheries habitat land uses.
Data collected from these lakes since their creation, indicate that
water quality characteristics are suitable for development of both
end land uses. Results of recent biotic surveys indicate that
benthic and aquatic macrophyte communities are establishing, and
that a limited fish stocking program could now be supported.
This paper discusses the physical and biological
characteristics of these two lakes in terms of their long-term
viability and fulfillment of land use objectives.
|
Extent |
1237035 bytes
|
Genre | |
Type | |
File Format |
application/pdf
|
Language |
eng
|
Date Available |
2009-08-27
|
Provider |
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
|
Rights |
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
|
DOI |
10.14288/1.0042199
|
URI | |
Affiliation | |
Peer Review Status |
Unreviewed
|
Scholarly Level |
Other
|
Copyright Holder |
British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation
|
Rights URI | |
Aggregated Source Repository |
DSpace
|
Item Media
Item Citations and Data
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International