NR-681 Submittal of Final Kushog Lake Ground Truthing Report 2014
Kushog Lake Identification and Inflow Analysis: Year 3

NR-681 Submittal of Final Kushog Lake Ground Truthing Report 2014
Kushog Lake Identification and Inflow Analysis: Year 3

Laura Gerencser
Devon Hennessy
Daphne Paszterko
Reuben Van Zeumeren

Prepared for the Kushog Lake Property Owners Association, in partnership with ULinks
Centre for Community Based Research, this report is a summary of year three
of a multi-year project ground truthing all inflows into Kushog Lake. As the third
and final report in the ground truthing process, results of inflow verification along
the eastern shore, south of Ox Narrows, are detailed to confirm locations as
identified in the Glenside Ecological Services report, Kushog Lake Watershed:
Wetland and Stream Desktop Analysis (Heaven, 2011). New inflows absent from
the initial report are also mapped and analyzed, and locations and data for all
inflows identified throughout the life of the project (2011-14) are compiled for
review and comparison. Biomonitoring of benthic macroinvertebrates using the
Ontario Benthos Biomonitoring Network (OBBN) protocol continues the monitoring
of previous years, sampling three reference sites established in 2011-2012, and
initiating sampling at three new reference sites.