Suspended sediment contributions from Forest Roads in the Honna River watershed

The Honna River is a source of drinking water for the Village of Queen Charlotte on Haida
Gwaii, British Columbia. There is concern that sediment from a highly traveled logging road is
contributing to poor water quality in the Honna River. This project is following up on the work
of Elizabeth Baird (2010 MITACS Intern), where she determined what factors controlled
sediment leaving logging roads. However, the dataset she used was limited to a 10 month
period. This project has two main objectives using a longer dataset collected over the past 3
years: 1. determining what impact logging truck traffic has on sediment transported to
streams during typical rainfall events and; 2. assessing how improvements to logging roads
could reduce sediment transported to nearby streams. This proposal is intended to focus on
the first objective, with a separate proposal to focus on the second in 2013. This study will
aim to provide….TOBECONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Marwan Hassan

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Partner:

Forestry BC (Prince George)

Discipline:

Physics

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University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate