Summary of Commitments. Long-term monitoring is critical to understanding whether significant changes are taking place in the natural environment. Long-term datasets reveal important patterns, which allow trends, cycles, and rare events to be identified. This is particularly important for complex, large systems where signals may be subtle and slow to emerge. Long-term datasets are essential to test hypotheses that may have been overlooked at the time the monitoring was started. With increasing variability in hydrological regimes associated with increasing climatic variability, long-term monitoring is critically important. Transboundary monitoring includes: • Stations at which monitoring for Transboundary Objectives will occur; • Stations that support transboundary management as well as broader regional and Basin-level monitoring network. As part of the Learning Plans for class 2 Transboundary Waters, the Parties will assess monitoring needs and priorities as well as appropriate locations for monitoring Transboundary Waters with regard to surface water quantity and quality, Groundwater quantity and quality, and biology. They may consider the addition of monitoring for air or human dimensions in the future. In the meantime, the Parties will continue to encourage and support the long-term monitoring conducted by Environment Canada and Mackenzie River Basin jurisdictions (Table 10). The identification of monitoring stations that may be monitored over the long-term for the Agreement will be based on a scientific and traditional knowledge assessment. Any stations established as per the RIM approach will also form part of the regional and Basin-level monitoring. Monitoring stations in unclassified and class 1 water bodies may be included to provide comparisons to background or reference conditions. In addition, how Indigenous governments and organizations will be involved in monitoring and research within their territory will be discussed. Table 10 lists the present status of Transboundary Water Quality and Hydrometric Stations in the Liard River basin. The number and location of stations may vary based on available funding and jurisdictional priorities. Parties will communicate any changes to monitoring programs at the BMC.
Summary of Commitments. Long-term monitoring is critical to understanding whether significant changes are taking place in the natural environment. Long-term datasets reveal important patterns, which allow trends, cycles, and rare events to be identified. This is particularly important for complex, large systems where signals may be subtle and slow to emerge. Long-term datasets are essential to test hypotheses that may have been overlooked at the time the monitoring was started. With increasing variability in hydrological regimes associated with increasing climatic variability, long-term monitoring is critically important. Transboundary monitoring includes: Stations at which monitoring for Transboundary Objectives will occur; Stations that support transboundary management as well as broader regional and Basin-level monitoring network. The Parties have agreed to continue to support long-term surface water quantity and quality monitoring in the Basin while the Learning Plans for the Liard and Petitot rivers are completed. Existing stations are shown in Table 9. Existing water quantity and quality monitoring stations are shown in Table 9. The Parties have agreed to continue to support long-term surface water quantity and quality monitoring in the Basin as follows: They will continue to support those stations marked with a “ * ” in Table 9 for which they are currently responsible, including working with delegate agencies as required; They will continue to support the station marked with a “+“ in Table 9 for which they are currently responsible, including working with delegate agencies as required for at least the period while the Learning Plans are completed; For class 2 transboundary water bodies (e.g., the Liard and Petitot rivers) requirements for monitoring needed to meet the commitments of this Agreement (e.g., location, parameters, frequency) will be determined through the Learning Plans; They will not make changes to monitoring at any of the stations in Table 9 without discussing with the other Party to this Agreement for the period while the Learning Plans are completed; They will encourage and support the continued surface water monitoring conducted in the Basin by Environment Canada (See Table 9). As part of the Learning Plans for class 2 Transboundary Waters, the Parties will assess monitoring needs and priorities as well as appropriate locations for monitoring Transboundary Waters with regard to surface water quantity and quality, Groundwater quantity and qua...
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Summary of Commitments. Transboundary monitoring includes: Stations at which monitoring for Transboundary Objectives willoccur; Stations that support transboundary management as well as broader regional and Basin-level monitoring network. As part of the Learning Plans for class 2 Transboundary Waters, the Parties will assess monitoring needs and priorities as well as appropriate locations for monitoring Transboundary Waters with regard to surface water quantity and quality, Groundwater quantity and quality, and biology. They may consider the addition of monitoring for air or human dimensions in the future. In the meantime, the Parties will continue to encourage and support the long-term monitoring conducted by Environment Canada and Mackenzie River Basin jurisdictions (Table 10). The identification of monitoring stations that may be monitored over the long-term for the Agreement will be based on a scientific and traditional knowledge assessment. Any stations established as per the RIM approach will also form part of the regional and Basin-level monitoring. Monitoring stations in unclassified and class 1 water bodies may be included to provide comparisons to background or reference conditions. In addition, how Indigenous governments and organizations will be involved in monitoring and research within their territory will be discussed. Table 10 lists the present status of Transboundary Water Quality and Hydrometric Stations in the Liard River basin. The number and location of stations may vary based on available funding and jurisdictional priorities. Parties will communicate any changes to monitoring programs at the BMC.
