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The Pulp mill pollution problem in Neroutsos Inlet, B.C.

Neroutsos Inlet is part of the Quatsino Sound group of inlets located on the northwest end of Vancouver Island. Port Alice, situated on the east side of the inlet 5 km from the head, is the location of a sulfite pulp mill built in 1917 and presently owned by Western Pulp Ltd. Partnership. The impact of effluent discharge from the pulp mill on water quality in Neroutsos Inlet has been a long-standing concern leading to a number of environmental studies and pollution abatement measures. Increased pollution abatement equipment has been added over the years, but there are still increasingly severe low dissolved oxygen (DO) levels. This report examines oceanographic and water quality data collected in the Inlet in 1986 and 1987 by the Institute of Ocean Sciences and the pulp mill staff. Water quality monitoring data consists of measurements of temperature, salinity, and concentrations of DO and spent sulfite liquor at discrete depths. Oceanographic data consists of moored instrument data and synoptic data collected during cruises. v, 48 p. : ill. (Canadian technical report of hydrography and ocean sciences ; no. 124) Metadata cataloged from scanned index .

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