Thermal and Optical Characteristics of Southern Indian Lake before, during, and after Impoundment and Churchill River Diversion

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
• Main Author: Hecky, R. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1984
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Indian; South Bay; Southern Indian Lake; Churchill; Churchill River; Nelson River
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f84-071; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f84-071

In 1976 Southern Indian Lake, a large, shallow, multibasin lake on the Churchill River in northern Manitoba, was impounded. The mean annual water level was raised 3 m over the historic mean level to divert 875 m 3 ∙s −1 by gravity flow from the lake into the Nelson River drainage. Five years of obse...