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<br />The stream flow data shows the typical seasonal variation with a rapid rise and fall of <br />flow rates during Spring runoff. Flows for Sites 16, 69, 1001, 8, 1002, and 1003 are <br />not measured during the winter due to the streams being frozen. Station 14 on Foidel <br />Creek often did not record flow in the creek during the fall and winter because it is <br />located neaz the top of the drainage. Station 800 on Foidel recorded high flows in July <br />]991 followed by no flow in August and September. This occurred because Pond A <br />was drained into Foidel Creek in July prior to dredging in August. Foidel Creek flows <br />tend to be maintained nzarly year-round by discharges from the spoil springs. <br />The data indicates a fairly good correlation between upstream and downstream stations <br />on each stream. As expected the upstream stations generally had a lower flow than the <br />downstream stations on each stream. On Trout Creek the downstream station <br />sometimes has a lower flow than the upstream station. This is due to irrigation <br />withdrawals in 1989 through 1991. <br />• Water Quality <br />Water quality samples are collected at all the primary sites on a regulaz basis. The <br />water quality summaries are presented on Tables 31 through 48. Plots of historic water <br />quality data for Foidel Creek are presented on Figures 34 through 37, Figure 50 and <br />Figure 53. A plot of historic water quality data for Fish Creek is presented on Figure <br />38. A plot of water quality data for Middle Creek is presented on Figure 39. Plots of <br />historic water quality data for Trout Creek aze presented on Figures 40 and 41. <br />The base level of field conductivity measured during spring runoff, was higher in the <br />downstream sites on Foidel Creek. It is approximately 750 umhos/cm in the upstream <br />site (14) and from 1500 to 1800 umhos/cm in the downstream sites (800 and 8). Since <br />1981 the base level for conductivity at both downstream sites has been increasing <br />although there appears to have been a levelling-0ff since 1989. The upstream site has <br />also shown an increasing trend in conductivity since 1986, presumably as a result of <br />lower runoff flows since this time. During the 1991 irrigation season, the field <br />conductivities at Stations 14 and 800 could not be measured as there was no measurable <br />. flows at these stations during this time, and at Station 8 the field conductivity was <br />- s - <br />