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Quantifying Restoration Offsets at a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada
In Canada, the Fisheries Act requires all water takers to avoid, mitigate and offset fish losses. To satisfy the act’s requirements, operators of power plants are required to undertake habitat restoration projects to compensate for fish impinged and entrained at cooling water intake structures. Scal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31630217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01214-2 |
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author | Barnthouse, Lawrence W. Fietsch, Cherie-Lee Snider, David |
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description | In Canada, the Fisheries Act requires all water takers to avoid, mitigate and offset fish losses. To satisfy the act’s requirements, operators of power plants are required to undertake habitat restoration projects to compensate for fish impinged and entrained at cooling water intake structures. Scaling the quantity of restoration needed, and measuring whether adequate compensation has been achieved, requires a metric that expresses the losses and gains in comparable units. Development of such a metric is especially difficult in the case of power plants, because the losses often consist of a mix of species and life stages that are very different from those produced by technically feasible restoration projects. This paper documents the method that has been developed for quantifying offsets for impingement and entrainment at the Bruce Generating Stations on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, and demonstrates how the method is being used to estimate the offset to be provided by removal of a dam on the nearby Saugeen River. |
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spelling | pubmed-68380362019-11-20 Quantifying Restoration Offsets at a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada Barnthouse, Lawrence W. Fietsch, Cherie-Lee Snider, David Environ Manage Article In Canada, the Fisheries Act requires all water takers to avoid, mitigate and offset fish losses. To satisfy the act’s requirements, operators of power plants are required to undertake habitat restoration projects to compensate for fish impinged and entrained at cooling water intake structures. Scaling the quantity of restoration needed, and measuring whether adequate compensation has been achieved, requires a metric that expresses the losses and gains in comparable units. Development of such a metric is especially difficult in the case of power plants, because the losses often consist of a mix of species and life stages that are very different from those produced by technically feasible restoration projects. This paper documents the method that has been developed for quantifying offsets for impingement and entrainment at the Bruce Generating Stations on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, and demonstrates how the method is being used to estimate the offset to be provided by removal of a dam on the nearby Saugeen River. Springer US 2019-10-19 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6838036/ /pubmed/31630217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01214-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Barnthouse, Lawrence W. Fietsch, Cherie-Lee Snider, David Quantifying Restoration Offsets at a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada |
title | Quantifying Restoration Offsets at a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada |
title_full | Quantifying Restoration Offsets at a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada |
title_fullStr | Quantifying Restoration Offsets at a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying Restoration Offsets at a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada |
title_short | Quantifying Restoration Offsets at a Nuclear Power Plant in Canada |
title_sort | quantifying restoration offsets at a nuclear power plant in canada |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31630217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01214-2 |
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