Appendix 4 : update October 2004 (Rabbit Lake)

Abstract

Water quality has been monitored in the Rabbit Lake drainage basin since 1980, but not continuously, or with the same frequency at all stations. However large data sets do exist for six stations monitored until 2000 and for five the monitoring continues until 2004. This long term data set provides a valuable measure of the effects of the only major ecological measure taken within the basin, the transplanting, in 1989, of several tons of an algal biomass from Lower Link Lake to Upper Link Lake. The growth and expansion of this population into a thriving underwater meadow was monitored until 2000 and is described in a summary report included with this submission.