Examples of Pit Lake in a sentence
No releases are expected during the time it takes to fill the Pit Lake (EIS Sections 3 and 11).
Depending upon the habitat quality wildlife with aquatic based diets may use the waters in Pit Lake as drinking water.
The mine water management system may include directing run-off water into the completed Pit Lake after closure and to facilitate pit flooding.
During the Post-Closure Phase the Pit Lake may support small fish and other aquatic life.
It is expected to take 9 years after operations cease for the Pit Lake to fill completely.
Groundwater pathways are considered incomplete as hydraulic conductivity of the Pit Lake bedrock, the encapsulated TSF and the encapsulated above grade waste rock is very low.
The quality of the water within the Pit Lake has been modeled in the Preliminary Water Balance Model (Tetra Tech 2014) and provided for use in this SLRA.
Sivapalan M (2005) Modelling the evolution of Mount Goldsworthy Pit Lake.
Again, wildlife may be directly exposed to Pit Lake water, but humans are more likely to ingest effluent that is passively discharged to GOLIATH MINE SCREENING LEVEL RISK ASSESSMENT FILE: ENVMIN03018-01.003 | FEBRUARY 2015 | ISSUED FOR USE Blackwater Creek from the Pit Lake and that subsequently flows to Wabigoon Lake (a drinking water source for the City of Dryden).
However, this pathway was not carried forward as groundwater is not likely to be impacted by effluent during the Operational Phase on the mine, no COCs during the Operational Phase exceeded the guidelines, and groundwater impacts in the Post-Closure Phase are expected to be negligible as the bedrock in which the Pit Lake will be located has a very low hydraulic conductivity (AMEC 2014a).