NWT-wide Community-based Monitoring Program ...
The NWT Water Stewardship Strategy is a collaborative endeavour between Aboriginal, territorial, federal, and municipal governments, communities, non-government organizations and others. It guides NWT water stewardship and management. The Strategy’s vision is to ensure that NWT waters remain “clean,...
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.25976/4der-gd31 https://datastream.org/dataset/e54124fe-4278-47a2-9493-9df49de40645 |
| Summary: | The NWT Water Stewardship Strategy is a collaborative endeavour between Aboriginal, territorial, federal, and municipal governments, communities, non-government organizations and others. It guides NWT water stewardship and management. The Strategy’s vision is to ensure that NWT waters remain “clean, abundant and productive for all time” and is founded on the importance of multiple forms of knowledge informing stewardship (e.g., traditional knowledge and scientific knowledge) (ENR 2010). During development of the Strategy, community and Aboriginal government partners expressed the desire to be actively involved in community-based monitoring. The Northwest Territories (NWT)-Wide Community-based Water Quality Monitoring (CBM) program was developed and implemented in 2012. The CBM program was, and continues to be, a collaborative program that sees staff from the Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC), Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), working in partnership with communities and regional ... : The CBM program collected data for a wide range of parameters using up to four types of water quality sampling techniques/monitoring equipment: • Polyethylene Membrane Devices (PMDs) – PMDs passively sample for a suite of parent and alkylated dissolved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) over a 15 - 30 day period. Analyses of these passive samplers were completed by Dr. Mingsheng Ma and his team at the Biogeochemical Analytical Service Laboratory at the University of Alberta. • YSI Sondes and EXO 2 Sondes – Sondes measure temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll, pH, and ORP every 2-hours for the duration of the open-water season. Data collected by the sondes is interpreted by ENR staff • Surface grab water samples – each suite of surface grab water samples are analyzed for over 70 parameters. This includes basic parameters (such as turbidity, specific conductivity, pH and alkalinity), nutrients, major ions, organics, and dissolved and total trace elements. In 2016, where ... |
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