Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 by Subject "Water quality"
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Addressing Indigenous community concerns of lake health by assessing water quality in Constance Lake, ON and biomarker responses in freshwater mussels, Pyganodon grandis and Lampsilis siliquoidea
(2023)Constance Lake First Nation has had concerns regarding the health of a culturally significant lake, Constance Lake, for several years. There are several external stressors to this lake including urbanization and forestry, ... -
Assessment of permeable reactive barriers for sulphate reduction at the former Steep Rock Iron Mine site, Atikokan, Ontario
(2012-11-10)This study assessed if a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) could be used to reduce sulphate and metal concentrations in Hogarth pit lake, a sulphate-toxic (up to 2,000 mg/L) pit lake at the former Steep Rock iron mine in ... -
Citizen-based monitoring and lakewide management: recommendations for information sharing and partnership development in the Lake Superior Basin
(2014)The Lake Superior Basin has a diverse range of stakeholder partnerships and citizen based monitoring programs focused on ecosystem protection, restoration and management. This research explores how partnerships for ... -
The effect of cottage development on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities and water quality in central Ontario lakes
(2023)In Canada, over 3 million freshwater lakes provide a wide range of ecological, financial, aesthetic, and public health services for their citizens, communities, and tourists. This is especially true for regions like ... -
Evaluation of stormwater remediation options on McVicar Creek, Thunder Bay, Ontario / by Kestrel Wraggett
(2013)Stormwater discharge has been shown to impair aquatic ecosystems through the transportation of nitrogen, nitrate, ammonium, phosphorus, orthophosphate, organic carbon, fecal coli form bacteria, biochemical oxygen, metals ... -
Macrophyte Community Dynamics in Lake Simcoe’s Fringe Wetlands: Potential use as Biological Indicators of Water Quality
(2016)Indices have been developed using macrophytes and water quality parameters to detect the impact of anthropogenic disturbance on coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes, but such an index does not currently exist for Lake ... -
Source tracking of escherichia coli in a freshwater lake in Northwestern Ontario (Boulevard Lake, Thunder Bay)
(2013-02-01)Escherichia coli is regularly used as a fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) in recreational waters but its persistence in the environment brings its use into doubt. A secondary FIB known as Bacteroides has been under a lot of ... -
Studies on water quality of aquaculture farms with an emphasis on Flavobacterium psychrophilum and UV treatment
(2016)Flavobacterium psychrophilum, the causative agent of Coldwater Disease, affects salmonid fish in aquaculture operations worldwide and causes skin lesions which if left untreated results in spinal deformities, spiral swimming ... -
Testing British Columbia's water quality guidelines as a mixture of four important contaminants, hardness, exposure time, and species effects
(2014-12-19)Provincial water quality guidelines are established in order to prevent detrimental effects of a single toxicant from affecting the health of resident aquatic life. However, the elevation of pollutants in freshwater can ... -
Zooplankton community dynamics in the Trent Seven Waterway along Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching
(2017)The Trent Severn Waterway (TSW) is a 386km channel that connects Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay. There is a lack of information on the water quality in the nearshore region of the TSW specifically in regards to the planktonic ...