WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SALMON RIVER ATWater Quality Monitoring Agreement • July 10th, 2006
Contract Type FiledJuly 10th, 2006This report assesses fifteen years of water quality data from the Salmon River. The Salmon River watershed is located within the Interior Plateau of south-central British Columbia. The sampling site is located at Highway 1, near the town of Salmon Arm, B.C.. Known errors were removed and the plotted data were compared to B.C. Environment's Approved and Working Criteria for Water Quality (MELP 2001a, 2001b). Of special interest were water quality levels and trends that are deemed deleterious to sensitive water uses including drinking water, aquatic life, fish and wildlife, recreation, irrigation and livestock watering.