Porter Creek Groundwater Concerns
Porter Creek begins as a series of ground water seeps at the base of a bluff. Icy Waters Limited built a retaining wall that collects these seeps and uses the water for their char brood-stock because the ground water is free from the surface bacteria found in other streams. IWL provides inadequate treatment of their effluent. Observations of solid wastes being flushed from their system and the indirect evidence from algae blooms throughout the system indicate that the levels of nutrients and wastes released are more that the system can tolerate. Porter Creek then flow for approximately five kilometers where it enters Hidden Lake. Hidden lake is drained through exfiltration. The algae that has died in the lake contributes to a noxious bethoic environment and also contributes to the decrease rate of ex filtration. Both contribute to the development of a eutrophic environment.
Porter Creek begins as a series of ground water seeps at the base of a bluff. Icy Waters Limited built a retaining wall that collects these seeps and uses the water for their char brood-stock because the ground water is free from the surface bacteria found in other streams. IWL provides inadequate treatment of their effluent. Observations of solid wastes being flushed from their system and the indirect evidence from algae blooms throughout the system indicate that the levels of nutrients and wastes released are more that the system can tolerate. Porter Creek then flow for approximately five kilometers where it enters Hidden Lake. Hidden lake is drained through exfiltration. The algae that has died in the lake contributes to a noxious bethoic environment and also contributes to the decrease rate of ex filtration. Both contribute to the development of a eutrophic environment.