Fraser Region Background info

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Resources:

• Nechako Portal
  • Portal access http://nechako.gis.unbc.ca/. Haven't been able to get this to load...
  • general info about portal https://nechakowatershed.ca/projects/nechako-portal
  • Info on building the portal here https://www2.unbc.ca/integrated-watershed-research-group/tools-integration-watershed-management-and-governance-0
• Nechako Watershed Roundtable https://nechakowatershed.ca/
• Nechako Environment and Water Stewardship Society http://newssociety.org/) https://newssociety.org/
• Nechako Fisheries Conservation Program https://www.nfcp.org/
• The Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance (UFFCA) https://upperfraser.ca/

Kenney Dam:
Water from the Nechako Reservoir is released downstream in two ways:

• water released to the Nechako River (both for fisheries conservation/protection and to
  spill excess reservoir inflows) exits on the eastern end of the reservoir, through the
  Skins Lake Spillway, passing through the Cheslatta River, Cheslatta Lake, and Murray
  Lake and entering the Nechako River at Cheslatta Falls,
• water released for power generation exits westward through the Tahtsa system into an
  underground tunnel to the Kemano powerhouse then into the Kemano River which
  meets up with the Pacific Ocean downstream

as of 2005, There is currently no water release facility at Kenney Dam. As a result, the only flow in the
Nechako Canyon (the nine-kilometer reach of the Nechako River between Kenney Dam and
Cheslatta Falls) is from local natural inflow. https://www.getinvolvednechako.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Nechako-Watershed-Council-Assessment-of-2005-Flow-Report-WEI-M1-13_June_2019.pdf. Look for more current data on this

• Since 19 87, Gov mandate to keep water temps below 20 degrees in July and Aug, and monitoring being done https://www.nfcp.org/monitoring-programs/summer-temperature-monitoring-program
• good report here https://www.nfcp.org/uploads/summary_reports/Nechako_Salmon_Report_September_2018.pdf