| Abstract/Description or Keywords |
In 1997, the Clearwater District office of the BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks undertook a IWAP for a residual watershed unit containing a number of streams in the North Adams River area. These streams, including Lampard Creek, all drain into either a short reach of the Upper Adams River or Tumtum Lake. The aim of the district-wide IWAP was to identify watersheds that were likely sensitive to forest harvesting activities and/or had undergone extensive forest development. The main objectives if this ReCAP project were: 1) To verify the existence of hazards as anticipated by the results of the 1997 Lampard Creek IWAP through on-site reconnaissance channel assessments in the specific project area. The ReCAP did not cover all of the original project data; 2) To identify any existing evidence of channel instability, increased peak flows, altered natural drainage and/or significant sediment sources within the watersheds and provide comment on the level of disturbance, the likely causes of the impairment and the relative priority of the concern; 3) To identify potential restoration and/or rehabilitation opportunities; 4) To review the implications of Gilbert Smith's Forest Development Plan for 1998 to 2002 with regard to future channel stability and hydrologic conditions within the watersheds. channel, erosion, sediment, water quality |
