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Originally Posted by Don Andersen
Frankly, I really couldn’t care who issued the permits for dewatering a stream. I really have to wonder what brain dead jerk decided to remove the water from a area where the stream is closed to protect the spawning activity.
Or,
Perhaps it’s a F…. You after the stink I raised when they pumped Prairie Creek at Xmas time last winter with the AEP and Fisheries and Oceans.
The sooner the Govt destroys the fishery, the better for resource exploitation.
A process that has continued for years.
Don
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Im not saying I am for allowing the withdraw of water from this system BUT as has been mentioned before, there is only a set amount that is being allowed to be taken out and there is a set intake velocity on the pumps so that fish are not harmed. The water withdraw will not run the creek dry and if the company doing the withdraw is following their permit (which they will 100% have), then they can only withdraw at a rate that is 10% of the current flow, which they have to monitor using either (or both) a water survey canada station and/or their own flow measurements taken and documented in their files. Again, I am not for taking water out from this location but you are making it sound like the end of the world and this one particular withdraw has caused the creek to go completely dry and ruin any/all spawning habitat.