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Using water quality criteria to sustain priority water uses downstream from mines Wilkes, Brian

Abstract

Sustainable development in mining means that mines need to safeguard resource values such as water quality in their immediate vicinity. Once aquatic resource values are properly defined, water quality objectives should be set for receiving waters. If met, these ensure that the aquatic resource values are sustained. In general, objectives can be set. using criteria already in existence published by B.C. Environment and CCME. With receiving water objectives known at the planning stages, mines can engineer treatment works to deliver the effluent quality required. Therefore water quality criteria based objectives are useful to both sustain aquatic resources, and also for providing realistic targets for mine development or upgrade planning.

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Using water quality criteria to sustain priority water uses downstream from mines
Creator
Wilkes, Brian
Contributor
British Columbia Mine Reclamation Symposium; University of British Columbia. Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Date Issued
1991
Description
Sustainable development in mining means that mines need to safeguard resource values such as water quality in their immediate vicinity. Once aquatic resource values are properly defined, water quality objectives should be set for receiving waters. If met, these ensure that the aquatic resource values are sustained. In general, objectives can be set. using criteria already in existence published by B.C. Environment and CCME. With receiving water objectives known at the planning stages, mines can engineer treatment works to deliver the effluent quality required. Therefore water quality criteria based objectives are useful to both sustain aquatic resources, and also for providing realistic targets for mine development or upgrade planning.
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Conference Paper
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Text
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application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2009-08-25
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0042177
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12529
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Other
Copyright Holder
British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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