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7 NUNAVUT WATER BOARD HEARING

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9 RE: CITY OF IQALUIT WATER LICENSE

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17 HEARING HELD AT THE NAVIGATOR INN HOTEL

18 IQALUIT, NUNAVUT

19 MARCH 7, 2006

20 VOLUME I

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1 APPEARANCES:

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3 HEARING BOARD:

4 Mr. L. Toomasie Chairman

Mr. G. Porter Member

5 Mr. G. Kakkiarniun Member

Mr. R. Kayarsark Member

6 Mr. T. Kabloona Member (via telephone)

7 WATER BOARD STAFF:

8 Mr. W.A. Tilleman , QC Legal Counsel

Philippe di Pizzo Executive Director, Chief of

9 Administration

Phyllis Bealieau Licensing Administrator

10 Ben Kogvik Interpreter/ Translater

Joe Murdock Technical Advisor

11 David Hohnstein Technical Advisor

Richard Dwyer Licensee

12 Dionne Filiatrault Director of Technical Services

13 APPLICANT:

14 City of Iqaluit

15 INTERVENORS :

16 Department of Indian and Northern Affairs

Environment Canada

17 Department of Environment

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

18 Government of Nunavut

Bill MacKenzie Humanitarian Society.

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20 INTERPRETERS:

21 Isa Boaz Inuktitut Language

Jose Arreat Inuktitut Language

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Jimmy Ekho Sound Technician

23 Tommy Kullualik Sound Technician

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25 Diane Hermann, RPR Court Reporter

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3 Introductions and General Comments...............4

4 Presentation by the City of Iqaluit..............14

5 Presentation by Crystal Jones on the.............18

Water Supply and Treatment System

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7 Introduction of Intervenors ......................29

8 DIAND Questions the City of Iqaluit..............34

9 The City of Iqaluit Responds to DIAND ............37

10 Environment Canada Questions the City of Iqaluit.41

11 The Water Board Staff Questions the City of......43

Iqaluit

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13 Presentation By DIAND ............................51

14 Comments By the City of Iqaluit..................59

15 Water Board Staff Questions DIAND ................61

16 Presentation By Environment Canada...............64

17 Water Board Staff Questions Environment Canada...68

18 Presentation by DFO ..............................70

19 Water Board Staff Questions DFO ..................74

20 Reporter's Certificate...........................77

21 Exhibits.........................................78

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1 (PROCEEDINGS COMMENCED AT 10:04 A.M.)

2 INTRODUCTIONS AND GENERAL COMMENTS:

3 THE CHAIRMAN: Good morning. It's now 10, 10 --

4 10:04 right now. We're supposed to start at 10:00 in

5 the morning according to the agenda, but because the

6 plane -- the Board staff, the Board members, came in

7 early this morning, around 5:00 or just before 5:00

8 this morning, so there is -- they're not here right

9 now, so what we'd like to do is we will recommence at

10 2:00 today. And we still need to do some more paper --

11 there's some more work to do, so we'll start --

12 actually starting with opening stuff and that at 2:00

13 today. So we'll come back here at 2:00. Thank you.

14 (PROCEEDINGS ADJOURNED AT 10:05 A.M.)

15 (PROCEEDINGS COMMENCED AT 2:00 P.M.)

16 THE CHAIRMAN: I'll speak Inuktitut , so you put

17 your earpiece on, please, the ones who don't understand

18 Inuktitut . (No translation)

19 MR . Di PIZZO : It's not working.

20 THE CHAIRMAN: The system is not -- the

21 interpreters cannot hear me. Inuktitut channel 1,

22 English channel 2.

23 My name is Lookie Toomasie . I am from Qikqtarjuaq

24 and the chair of Nunavut Iqaluit Water Board. We will

25 proceed with the meeting. I would ask you to sign as

26 you enter. Phyllis and Richard, they have some

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1 documents for licensee. If you haven't registered, if

2 you haven't signed, please meet with them as you come

3 in to this meeting. Thank you.

4 With the Nunavut Water Board as Board of

5 Directors, we would like to welcome everybody to this

6 meeting, and the colleagues, as you proceed with the

7 hearing, public hearing. We would be hearing some

8 applicants from the Iqaluit -- from the City of the

9 Iqaluit as they proceed with the application for water

10 license and for sewage and also for garbage -- solid

11 waste, pardon me. This is in reference to the use of

12 the water within the community of Iqaluit, and then

13 there's solid waste. Those are the sort of things that

14 we'll be dealing with today as we proceed with the

15 public hearing. And I would just like to point out

16 about water quality, even though it's not in the

17 agenda, the old dump -- as we proceed with the public

18 hearing, we will now be dealing with lot 40 in this

19 session, in this hearing.

20 But again, I just want to welcome everybody with

21 all the resource persons and the City of Iqaluit here

22 with us today, and all other colleagues I welcome. We

23 want them to have an opportunity to make their

24 presentation along with the intervenors from the

25 Federal Territorial Government; welcome. As we proceed

26 with this developmental process -- your involvement is

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1 critical and important as we proceed with this public

2 hearing.

3 Before we proceed with the meeting, I would like

4 to welcome the reverend minister. His name is John

5 Tyrell . Welcome. He will be opening the meeting with

6 a prayer as we start the session.

7 So if you could proceed, John, please.

8 REVEREND TYRELL : Thank you, Mr. Chair.

9 Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin today's

10 session -- am I live now? Yes, it's working.

11 Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen, let us pray as we

12 begin today's session.

13 (PRAYER)

14 MR . di PIZZO : Mr. Chairman, before we begin, can

15 we verify if we have on line a lawyer of the City of

16 Iqaluit, Katherine Peterson, as well as our fifth

17 member who is on the call as well. We need to say on

18 the record that he's on the call, and that he will

19 count toward the quorum of the Board.

20 So if we can verify right now if Katherine

21 Peterson is there? Okay. And Thomas Kabloona ?

22 MR . KABLOONA : I'm here.

23 MR . di PIZZO : Thank you, Mr. Chair.

24 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. We will start our

25 session with the public hearing at this time. I'd like

26 to welcome the mayor, Elisapee Shiutiapik , as we

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1 proceed with the session -- the hearing. So, thank you

2 again.

3 As Nunavut Water Board, we are mandated to operate

4 water licensing within the jurisdiction of Nunavut , and

5 that's part of our role. This means that Nunavut Water

6 Board, we must provide approval for the use of water

7 purposes, and likewise with the solid waste facilities

8 -- or solid waste, regardless, as long as they're

9 considered waste. If water is going to be impacted and

10 affected by this, then this part -- these possibilities

11 that we have in considering water licensing and so

12 forth. And furthermore, added into that are the mining

13 explorations. Any company that wants to start --

14 mining companies, those are the sort of items that we

15 deal with because they will be consuming water or will

16 be using water as they carry out -- that's part of our

17 responsibilities as a Water Board, and also for any

18 alternate use of water, anything affected, they are

19 also added as part of our responsibility. And all the

20 waste that is being given to -- as waste facilities,

21 and this also affects the level of the volume of --

22 impact it has, and there are certain requirements with

23 the licensing.

24 As we proceed with considering the approval of

25 these licenses or applications, Nunavut Water Board

26 considers and takes into account very wise views of

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1 assessment and reviews accordingly to ensure we're

2 properly considering. And if there's going to be any

3 closure of communities or facilities, any closures,

4 tailings, et cetera, these can be dealt with, and if

5 there's financial cost involved. So they need to put

6 some money aside to deal with the closure of the

7 facilities.

8 Before we proceed with any approval on the

9 applications affecting the people or for the waste

10 which -- in the municipality or within the community,

11 if you look at Iqaluit, Iqaluit is a little community.

12 We utilise the public hearings and deal with the

13 applications. The Board takes into account the

14 considerations and the community concerns or if there

15 are specific community concerns or from any agencies.

16 That's part of our role, to listen to them during the

17 public hearing. Part of the Iqaluit Board Authority

18 lies with management, to some extent, and mandated

19 responsibility to us using the Inquiries Act. We are

20 given specific responsibilities, and this means that

21 the Board must be, must be seen in the public -- by the

22 public hearing process and also provide information to

23 the public upon request -- or any request made, we

24 provide that as part of our services, and continue to

25 develop on them.

26 With the responsibilities that come to us by way

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1 of applications, the Nunavut Water Board, through other

2 means, may approve or not approve an application,

3 depending on the circumstances and depending on -- in

4 the opinion of the Board. For those who have concerns

5 and intervenors , if they make recommendations, we may

6 also consider that as a Board upon the request of the

7 intervenors . Those are the responsibilities,

8 authorities, given to us.

9 As we proceed with the opening of this public

10 hearing, I want to also have an opportunity with you to

11 be on the same page with you communication-wise with

12 the applications made by Phyllis Bealieau , who is also

13 here with us today. If you haven't written your name

14 down, submit your name so that we will have them

15 documented in our records for the meeting and so forth.

16 As with the responsibilities, I would just generally

17 specify some of the work that we will be carrying out

18 this afternoon, especially in note of the intervenors .

19 They must have an opportunity to be heard as well.

20 At this time, that is all I will say at this time

21 as opening remarks. Again, make sure you clearly

22 specify your name to our, to our staff here so there

23 will be a clear record and what they do -- what you do

24 in your line of work. At the time before any

25 presentations are made, they must be approved to

26 proceed ahead. And for those who just have general

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1 questions, there's no need to approve them. It's only

2 when a specific presentation is made it has to be

3 formally approved as a procedural requirement.

4 And as for the questions, as a chair, you direct

5 them to me as the chair of the Board. You talk to me,

6 you speak to me when you do your presentation. And as

7 for the City of Iqaluit, we -- would also have an

8 opportunity to do their presentation along with

9 intervenors . Intervenors will be asking questions and

10 they must not direct them directly to the City but

11 through the chair.

12 We have the interpreters at this time, both in

13 Inuktitut and English. These are very important

14 hearing and get- togethers , and they need to be clearly

15 presented in both languages, and if you are doing a

16 presentation, I would ask if you could kindly slow down

17 when you do your presentation. The interpreters are

18 just -- and the interpreters is -- if you don't have

19 the translation equipment, I request that you would get

20 some. Further down upon your entrance there is a

21 translation equipment that you can pick up. And as for

22 the public hearing, just for your information, they're

23 being recorded, so they will be dealt with and

24 documented thereafter.

25 As we proceed with this public hearing, we will be

26 focussing on the responsibilities. For example, if

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1 we're dealing with the water, we deal with the water

2 issues. Unless we deal with the issue on water, then

3 we start focussing specifically on another item: solid

4 waste. So we'll be dealing with each item at a time as

5 we proceed with the public hearing. That's how we're

6 going to operate. And also tonight, we will proceed

7 with the evening session tonight. We resume at 7:00.

8 We'll have a feast as well, but we will not be going

9 past 10:00 tonight. Such is the case.

10 Are there any questions at this time as we start

11 with the public hearing? Any questions? No comments?

12 Thank you. We will now proceed with the, with the

13 agenda at this time, our agenda.

14 The Board is normally made up of eight members,

15 plus the chair. As already stated, my name is Lookie

16 Toomasie , chairman of the Nunavut Water Board, and I'm

17 from Tikatakwa .

18 Geoff Kusugak is from Rankin Inlet and the

19 vice-chair of the Water Board, but he's not able to be

20 here, I'd just like -- because he had other

21 commitments. And also, George Porter is right beside

22 me, right here. He's from Gjoa Haven. And also Guy

23 Kikkiarniun and Raymond over here, they are from --

24 both from Kugaruk . We also have on the line, which is

25 Thomas Kabloona from Baker Lake. Also, Board member

26 Bob Hanson is at the back there, which have -- is from

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1 Iqaluit and has formally declared a conflict interest

2 regarding this application, and accordingly, he will

3 not be taking part in proceeding with us of this

4 proceeding as a Board member. The Board's head office

5 is in Gjoa Haven.

6 Philippe di Pizzo is chief administrator officer;

7 he's over here. And Philippe -- sorry, Dionne

8 Filiatrault is the manager of technical service over

9 here. And Phyllis Bealieau is the manager of licensing

10 at the back there. And Richard Dwyer is licensee

11 trainee; he's sitting beside Phyllis. And Ben Kogvik

12 is a secretary to the Board, sitting over there. Also,

13 Mr. Bill Tilleman , sitting beside Philippe, legal

14 counsel for the Board. Also, we also have with us the

15 staff board. Joe Murdock , he's sitting out there as

16 well, And David Hohnstein should be here, too. He's

17 sitting way over there. He is also technical advisor.

18 We will -- before we take a break, I'd like to

19 introduce as well, have the opportunity to, the mayor

20 of Iqaluit. I wish to welcome you before we take a

21 break. Go ahead.

22 MAYOR SHIUTIAPIK : I'm very happy to be here tonight.

23 We're very busy at this time, dear colleagues, but I

24 must come here and welcome everybody here. There's no

25 doubt that we are going to begin with some very

26 important issues, and there's no doubt that sometimes

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1 you're going to have to make some very difficult

2 decisions. That comes with the nature of our

3 responsibilities, but once you're complete with this,

4 we can proceed with a much clearer focus.

5 So, again, I want to welcome everybody here, every

6 one of you, and there's no doubt that we will be having

7 some more people and learn from each other in the next

8 few days. And as I said, dear colleagues, there's no

9 doubt that the issues that we are dealing with today

10 will be affecting the residents of this community. In

11 fact, it will also affect the electricity. But I'm

12 very happy that you guys are dealing with this, so I

13 want to entreat you to have a good, productive meeting.

14 But because of the workload I have, I cannot be here

15 for the duration of these meetings, but welcome to

16 everybody here.

17 THE CHAIRMAN: Let's have a 15-minutes break

18 before proceeding further. If you have not registered

19 yet, please do so with Phyllis Bealieau . Okay, we'll

20 be back here at quarter to, quarter to three. Thank

21 you.

22 (PROCEEDINGS ADJOURNED AT 2:25 P.M.)

23 (PROCEEDINGS RESUMED AT 2:45 P.M.)

24 THE CHAIRMAN: (No translation) Let us proceed

25 again with the hearing.

26 THE INTERPRETER: Can you hear me now?

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1 THE CHAIRMAN: Okay, as we carry on, Mr. Baker.

2 PRESENTATION BY THE CITY OF IQALUIT:

3 MR . BAKER: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of

4 the Board. And first of all, I'd like to thank the

5 Board for the opportunity to present the information in

6 support of our pending water license application.

7 Information to be presented over the next couple of

8 days to the, to the Nunavut Water Board is in respect

9 to the City of Iqaluit and the facilities it operates.

10 The facilities will include the Lake Geraldine

11 reservoir, the water treatment plant, the sewage lagoon

12 -- excuse me, the newly constructed sewage treatment

13 place, and the solid waste disposal facility. The City

14 has taken monumental steps over the last four years to

15 improve its infrastructure. Some of these improvements

16 include upgrades to the water treatment plant.

17 THE CHAIRMAN: Geoff, before you are proceeding,

18 can we have you sworn in?

19 MR . BAKER: Yes.

20 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let's just

21 get them sworn in, and then I don't know if they're

22 doing introductions or beginning their presentations,

23 but we'll get it out of the way and then we'll

24 continue.

25 MR . BURDEN: Steven Burden, B-U-R-D-E-N.

26 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you. Please state your name

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1 and spell your last name for the record.

2 MS. JONES: Crystal Jones, J-0-N-E-S.

3 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you. State your name and

4 please spell your last name for the record.

5 MR . BAKER: Geoff Baker, B-A-K-E-R.

6 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you. Please state your name

7 for the record and spell your last name.

8 MR . HALL: Mark Hall, H-A-L-L.

9 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you. Please state your name

10 for the record and spell your last name.

11 MR . JOHNSON: Ken Johnson, J-O-H-N-S-O-N.

12 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you.

13 STEVEN BURDEN, SWORN

14 CRYSTAL JONES, SWORN

15 GEOFF BAKER, SWORN

16 MARK HALL, SWORN

17 KEN JOHNSON, SWORN

18 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chair.

19 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you.

20 Geoff, before you proceed, can you have your staff

21 to introduce -- have introductions before you continue?

22 Thank you.

23 MR . BAKER: It is included in my --

24 THE CHAIRMAN: Okay, thank you.

25 MR . BAKER: The introductions are included in

26 my opening statement, I just haven't got to them yet.

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1 So maybe I'll start from the beginning again by saying

2 thanks for the opportunity to present information in

3 regards to our pending water license. The information

4 to be presented over the next couple of days to the

5 Nunavut Water Board is in respect to the City of

6 Iqaluit and the facilities it operates. The facilities

7 will include the Lake Geraldine reservoir, the water

8 treatment plant, the sewage lagoon, and the newly

9 constructed sewage treatment place, and, as well, the

10 solid waste disposal facility.

11 The City has taken monumental steps over the last

12 four years to improve its infrastructure. Some of

13 these improvements include upgrades to the existing

14 water treatment plant; a planned expansion to the

15 city's Lake Geraldine spillway and berms ; a planned

16 increase to the City's treated water storage; a new

17 booster station and reheat station to service the new

18 plateau subdivision and airport area; continuous

19 upgrades of our water and sewer piping; a complete

20 upgrade to lift station number one planned for summer

21 2006; construction of a new primary sewage treatment

22 plant, which is now operational as of Friday past;

23 expansion of the City's landfill; and drainage

24 improvements at the landfill planned, again, for this

25 summer.

26 With me today I have Ms. Crystal Jones to my

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1 immediate left. She is a project officer with the City

2 of Iqaluit. She's going to be giving a presentation on

3 the City's water supply and treatment. To my right I

4 have Mr. Mark Hall, who's the director of public works

5 with the City of Iqaluit. He will be giving a

6 presentation on the City's solid waste collection and

7 disposal. To my far left is Mr. Steven Burden with

8 Trow Associates. He'll be available for addressing

9 technical questions as a resource to the City. To my

10 immediate -- or to my far right is Mr. Ken Johnson of

11 Earth Tech Canada. He's going to be giving a

12 presentation on the City's sewage management plan.

13 My name is Geoff Baker, as I indicated earlier.

14 I'm the manager of engineering services with the City

15 of Iqaluit; I have been for about the last six months.

16 I'm going to give a presentation on the City's sewage

17 collection and treatment system. And as well, to my

18 very far right, as she's already spoken, Mrs. Elisapee

19 Shiutiapik , the mayor of Iqaluit.

20 The City is requesting a renewal of our water

21 license application for a five-year term. The

22 application is for the removal of water from Lake

23 Geraldine for municipal uses, including domestic and

24 commercial uses. Water consumption requested under the

25 new license shall not exceed 1.1 million cubic metres .

26 I will now turn the microphone over to Crystal

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1 Jones who is going to provide a presentation on the

2 City's water supply and treatment system.

3 PRESENTATION BY CRYSTAL JONES ON THE WATER SUPPLY AND

4 TREATMENT SYSTEM:

5 MS. JONES: Thank you, Geoff.

6 Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, members of the Board,

7 regulatory agencies, and members of the public. My

8 name is Crystal Jones, and as Geoff said, I am the

9 project officer for the City of Iqaluit engineering

10 department, and I will be presenting information

11 regarding the Iqaluit water supply. An overview of the

12 presentation is, will focus on the raw water source,

13 transmission, water treatment and storage, and water

14 distribution.

15 Lake Geraldine is the raw water source. Lake

16 Geraldine watershed has an area of 385 hectares and

17 receives an annual precipitation -- average per

18 acceptation of 424.1 millimetres for a total yearly

19 volume of precipitation of 1,000,633 cubic metres .

20 The raw water source: In 2003, it was estimated

21 that the City would utilise 27 percent of this volume

22 to meet our demands, and furthermore, we would require

23 an estimated 89 percent to meet our demands in the year

24 2023. Raw water is stored in the Lake Geraldine

25 reservoir, which was created by construction of a

26 concrete gravity dam in the early 1960s. The dam has

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1 been extended three times from its original crest

2 elevation of 106.2 metres to its current elevation of

3 109.33 metres . During the summer of 2006, the dam will

4 be further extended two metres to meet our over-winter

5 raw storage needs for the City until the year 2023. To

6 allow for the extension of the dam, a rock-anchoring

7 programme is required to resist overturning and

8 slippage, and this was completed in 2005. Part of the

9 project will include the extension of two berms

10 adjacent to the dam, as well as the construction of a

11 new berm to be south of the dam. All the berms will be

12 gravel with a concrete cutoff wall anchored into

13 bedrock. The design includes a use of clear stone on

14 the Lake Geraldine side of the berm, and there will be

15 a requirement for silt fencing downstream of the dam to

16 protect the stream from any siltation from

17 construction. A drawing will be submitted to the Board

18 showing the proposed silt mitigations measures very

19 shortly. The City's staff is also proposing to monitor

20 the levels of the reservoir, and this data will also be

21 submitted to the Board.

22 Dam inspection: Concentric Associates

23 International was retained by the City on November

24 14th, 2004, to undertake a dam safety inspection. The

25 inspection took place from February 9th to 11th, 2005,

26 and some of the observations were: primary leakage

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1 addressed by the polyurethane injections in 2003 appear

2 to be performing adequately; evidence of small volume

3 seepage exists at the hairline crack locations,

4 however, this will be addressed with the extension of

5 the dam. Upon completion of the dam extension project,

6 a dam safety review will be conducted.

7 Transmission of water: Water leaves Lake

8 Geraldine through -- leaves Lake Geraldine and enters

9 the water treatment plant through a 360 metre , 255

10 millimetre diameter of castiron intake pipe, insulated

11 with 50 millimetres of foam and protected with a gauge

12 metal jacket. There is an injection of tempered water

13 from the plant, protects this line from freezing. The

14 flow control valve is capable of accurately controlling

15 flows from present minimum demands of 1,000 cubic

16 metres per day up to 10,000 cubic metres daily,

17 slightly above the plant design of raw water flow.

18 Water treatment and storage: The design life of

19 the new water treatment plant is for 20 years, taking

20 us up to the year 2022. The gross design capacity of

21 the water treatment plant is set at 9500 cubic metres

22 daily based on the population of a 11,300 and the

23 City's design consumption rate of 400 litres per capita

24 per day.

25 Water treatment plant process: Raw water enters

26 the water treatment plant through a 250- millimetre pipe

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1 from the dam on Lake Geraldine above the plant. Upon

2 entering the plant, the raw water is metered and

3 controlled. Raw water is then disinfected with UV

4 light to inactivate any pathogens. UV light is the

5 primary disinfectant, with chlorination as a secondary

6 disinfectant, to provide a residual through the

7 distribution system.

8 Downstream of the UV equipment, the water flows

9 through a set of flocculation tanks -- or through a

10 flocculation tank bypass line on to the filters. From

11 the filters the newly filtered water flows into clear

12 wells through the backwash chambers, then to a separate

13 reservoir, and finally into our distribution system.

14 The process is automatically -- sorry, automatically

15 controlled using plant control system and requires

16 minimal interventions unless there's an alarm

17 indicated.

18 Raw water to filter flow: Operations of the

19 treated water is initiated by the reservoir water level

20 indicator located in the offsite reservoir or the

21 backup chambers located in the backwash pumping

22 chamber. Presently, the flocculation bypass line is

23 utilised to divert water to the filters. Each filter

24 has a motorised control valve in its influent channel

25 which is either opened or closed.

26 Filtered treated water flow: The UV-treated water

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1 flows through the filtered media and through the water

2 effluent channels of each filter. In the contact

3 chamber, chlorine is added to the water along with

4 hydrofluorosilic for fluoride and caustic soda for pH

5 adjustment. At this point there is an injection point

6 for the orthophosphate and testing of pH and fluorine

7 and, finally, on to the offsite reservoir.

8 Water treatment testing: Twice daily, water

9 samples are conducted to test pH measurements, chlorine

10 content, turbidity, and fluoride. Weekly bacteria and

11 chlorine, pH turbidity, residual testing is conducted

12 throughout the City. Ten samples are taken throughout,

13 four of which come from the water trucks. The plant

14 electrically monitors turbidity entering the plant pre-

15 and post-filtration.

16 Plant storage and capacity: Currently, the

17 treated water storage is important for providing

18 sufficient disinfection and to balance the needs of the

19 community with respect to fire storage, equalisation ,

20 and emergency storage. Treated water storage is

21 currently stored in a tank constructed in 1995 with a

22 capacity -- and has a capacity of 2300 cubic metres .

23 Designs are now being drawn up for an additional tank

24 with an approximate volume of 2400 cubic metres .

25 Currently, the fire flow capacity is 6,000 litres per

26 minute for two hours, which is equivalent to a fire

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1 storage allowance of 720 cubic metres . Once additional

2 tanks is complete -- once the additional tank is

3 completed, the fire flow capacity will be 10,000 litres

4 per minute for a three-hour period.

5 Water distribution: Treated water flows by

6 gravity for 350 metres into two 250 HDPE pipes from the

7 main storage reservoir to the water distribution

8 system. The distribution system contains the following

9 major components: water mains, re-circ lines, two

10 booster stations, reheat station, bleeders, and

11 truck-fill stations.

12 In Iqaluit there are three pressure districts.

13 The HDGL of the storage reservoir governs one district,

14 and the HGL of the two booster stations governs the

15 other. The reservoir provides suitable domestic

16 pressures below an elevation of 58 metres . Lower

17 Iqaluit, Lower Base, Happy Valley, Astro Hill, Uivvaq

18 area, and the airport area, and the federal building

19 area are situated below this elevation. Booster

20 station number one provides appropriate pressures up to

21 an elevation of 116 metres and provides support to the

22 City's southern end and towards Apex. Booster station

23 number two supplies the new Plateau subdivision.

24 Part of the water distribution system is the

25 freeze protection. Freeze protection is needed to

26 ensure that water does not freeze in the distribution

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1 system. Water is first tempered within the water

2 treatment plant and leaves the main reservoir at

3 approximately 5 degrees Celsius. Water circulates to

4 one of the five reheat stations to replace heat loss

5 during -- lost from distribution system to the main --

6 to maintain circulation. Reheat stations typically

7 contain boilers, heat exchangers , and circulating

8 pumps. The five reheat stations are located at the

9 Trigram building, Building 222, booster stations one

10 and two, and reheat station number one, which is

11 located by the hospital. In this slide there's a

12 picture of the four -- four of the five reheat

13 stations. The one on the far left-hand corner is the

14 booster station number one, the next one is booster

15 station number two, Building 222, and the reheat

16 station number one which is located by the hospital.

17 Water is also discharged from bleeders to maintain

18 continuous flow in some areas. Bleeders are

19 small-diameter pipes attached to the end of a water

20 main. Bleeders allow water to constantly flow from the

21 end of the water main into a sanitary sewer to prevent

22 freezing. Bleeders are located at Lower Iqaluit at

23 manhole 63, and in the federal building area at access

24 vault 5, and the Uivvaq area at access vault 10A , and

25 in Happy Valley at manhole 73. The freeze protection

26 system is designed to ensure flow direction through

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1 looped systems.

2 Truck-fill stations: There are two truck-fill

3 stations that service four water trucks, with a fifth

4 water truck available as a spare. The primary

5 truck-fill station is booster station number one, which

6 is located above, and trucks service 425 units in

7 Iqaluit as well as assist emergencies which may arise.

8 Water consumption: The average consumption rate

9 is 123 litres per capita per day for trucked service,

10 the average consumption rate is 277 litres per capita

11 per day for piped service, and the rate of 400 litres

12 per day per capita is projected based on potential

13 increases in consumption rates, operational uses,

14 miscellaneous losses, and for non-domestic uses.

15 I know I kind of went through this rather quickly,

16 so a quick overview of the presentation: Water leaves

17 Lake Geraldine, goes into the water treatment plant,

18 from the -- in the water treatment plant it goes

19 through a treatment process, then it goes through the

20 distribution system which goes to the water mains,

21 re-circ lines, booster stations, reheat station,

22 bleeders, truck-fill station, and then it's either

23 trucked or piped into the homes. Thank you very much.

24 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you.

25 Geoff?

26 MR. BAKER: No, I think that concludes our

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1 presentation on the, on the water supply system in

2 Iqaluit. We're ready to entertain questions from the

3 Board as well as the intervenors, and the public as

4 well.

5 THE CHAIRMAN: Before we do that, we --

6 MR. TILLEMAN: Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so if we

7 can just mark the exhibits so that we have a clean

8 record. We would propose, Mr. Chairman, that the hard

9 copy of the presentation that we have just seen and

10 that we're going to continue to see be marked as

11 exhibit number one; then the electronic version on

12 CD-ROM of that presentation be marked and entered as

13 exhibit number two; and then as exhibit number three

14 the words of that are -- oh, sorry. And so number

15 three we propose, sir, that it be marked as the

16 memorandum dated March 3rd, 2006, regarding City of

17 Iqaluit landfill site expansion.

18 And so unless there are any objections to that by

19 any of the parties, and I don't see any in the audience

20 objecting or counsel on the phone, then, Mr. Chairman,

21 we would mark them accordingly. Thank you very much.

22 EXHIBIT 1:

23 CITY OF IQALUIT WATER LICENSE APPLICATION, MARCH

24 2006, POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, HARD COPY

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1 EXHIBIT 2:

2 CITY OF IQALUIT WATER BOARD PRESENTATIONS, MARCH

3 2006, ELECTRONIC COPY

4 EXHIBIT 3:

5 MEMORANDUM DATED 3 MARCH 2006 REGARDING CITY OF

6 IQALUIT LANDFILL SITE EXPANSION

7 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Thank you for the

8 presentation. Our agenda for this hearing is slightly

9 different than usual, and we will deal with the

10 specific issues as different components, starting with

11 the presentation by applicant on the specific issues

12 followed by intervention and questions by interested

13 parties.

14 I have also persons or agencies who has submitted

15 written intervention to the Board and who have

16 registered with Phyllis Bealieau , administrator. I

17 will now do roll-call to confirm who is going to

18 intervene and have the name of their agent or legal

19 counsel, if they have one. If no one has any

20 objection, we will start with DIAND , followed by the

21 Environment Canada, the Department of Fisheries and

22 Oceans, the Government of Nunavut .

23 So, please come forward. Come up and state your

24 name, starting with DIAND . I believe Mr. Jim Rogers

25 from Iqaluit is here with a number of people from his

26 department, as well as Lee Webber, lead counsel with

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1 Justice Canada representing DIAND in this proceeding.

2 Thank you.

3 MR . ROGERS: One minute while we check on the

4 presentation, if you will.

5 MR . WEBBER: Excuse me, Mr. Chair. Justice

6 Canada for DIAND . Could I ask for a clarification,

7 please? Is the preferred method of approach to have

8 all the presentations on the particular issue set out

9 first and then everybody will question one another or,

10 instead, is the idea to have the Town of Iqaluit

11 questioned on the portion of the presentation which it

12 has just been -- has just presented, after which the

13 various intervenors will, one by one, do their

14 presentations and, one by one, be questioned on those

15 presentations?

16 THE CHAIRMAN: Legal counsel.

17 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

18 And so, it would be the later. We've just had a

19 presentation, and now questions will be asked on this

20 presentation that just occurred, and then when all the

21 parties have asked questions on that, we'll go to the

22 next portion of the agenda and do the same thing, and

23 so on for the parties.

24 So it was the last -- the second option you

25 summarised . Thank you.

26 THE CHAIRMAN: Go ahead, please.

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1 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So as a

2 follow-up, then, to Mr. Webber's question, maybe -- and

3 to help the audience, I should have also suggested, why

4 don't we have all the parties come up and do a

5 roll-call? Let's find out who's here.

6 So let's right now go into that part of the

7 hearing, so let's begin with DIAND and then the other

8 parties mentioned by the chair. Let's have you come

9 up, state who you're representing, who you have with

10 you. And then once we go through that and identify who

11 is in the audience, then we'll find out if there's any

12 motions or objections to carrying on any questions or

13 concerns you may have. And then once we've done that,

14 then let's go back and ask questions of the applicant

15 on its presentation. Okay? Sound good?

16 Okay, Mr. Webber, then, if you could come up and

17 introduce your team, who you're representing, and then

18 after that go down the list and follow from there.

19 INTRODUCTION OF INTERVENORS :

20 MR . ROGERS: Thank you. My name is Jim Rogers.

21 I'm acting director of the operations branch of Indian

22 and Northern Affairs Canada. I'll be representing the

23 department today. Our director general sends his

24 apologies. He planned to be here, but he got called

25 away.

26 Also joining me will be Ian Rumbolt , he's acting

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1 regional coordinator. Ian, would you stand up? Peter

2 Kusugak , he is the manager of field operations for

3 INAC ; Pat Larocque , he's a water resource officer with

4 the field operations branch of operations director; Lee

5 Webber, of course, is the legal counsel for INAC ; and

6 also Rick Hoos with EBA Engineering, who is our

7 consultant.

8 THE CHAIRMAN: Jim, you may have to repeat.

9 There's no Inuktitut or -- yeah, he didn't hear you,

10 what you said.

11 MR . ROGERS: Repeat it? Yes, okay. My name is

12 Jim Rogers. I am acting director of operations

13 directorate of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada in

14 the Nunavut regional office in Iqaluit. I have to

15 apologise for the regional director general. He will

16 not be here. He got called away. Hopefully he got --

17 his plane took off today.

18 Also representing INAC today are Ian Rumbolt , he's

19 acting regional of the Qikitani region; Peter Kusugak ,

20 who is the manager of field operations branch with

21 operations directorate of Indian and Northern Affairs;

22 Pat Larocque , he's a water resource officer with the

23 field operations branch; Lee Webber, he's our legal

24 counsel from the Department of Justice representing

25 INAC ; and also joining our team is Rick Hoos from EBA

26 Engineering, and he's our consultant.

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1 MS. WILSON: Good afternoon. My name is Anne

2 Wilson. I'll be making Environment Canada's

3 presentation today and tomorrow on our concerns for the

4 water license renewal.

5 MR . MOGGY : My name is Derek Moggy . I'm a habitat

6 management biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada

7 here in Iqaluit. I will be providing a presentation

8 regarding the water supply. With me is Tanya Gordanier

9 who is also a habitat management biologist, and she

10 will be available tomorrow if there's any questions

11 that come about as I will be unavailable to attend.

12 Thanks.

13 MR . ENO : Good day. My name is Robert Eno .

14 I'm with the Department of Environment, pollution

15 control section, of the Government of Nunavut , and I

16 will be making the intervention on behalf of the

17 Department of Environment. With me intermittently,

18 right behind me, are Mike Atkinson, Helen Yeh , and Mike

19 Mifflin, although I'll probably be the primary

20 target --

21 THE CHAIRMAN: Robert? Robert, excuse me. Sorry.

22 The Inuktitut translation was off for a while. Could

23 you repeat that for us?

24 MR . ENO : Sure. I'll start again. I am --

25 my name is Robert Eno . I'm the manager for pollution

26 control with the Department of Environment, Government

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1 of Nunavut .

2 THE CHAIRMAN: Yes, go ahead.

3 MR . ENO : I will be, I will be presenting

4 Department of Environment's intervention. With me is

5 Mike Atkinson, Helen Yeh , and Mike Mifflin. The latter

6 three will be intermittent participants or observers,

7 but I'll be the fellow that's answering the questions

8 and making the presentations. Thank you.

9 THE CHAIRMAN: Any other comments at this time?

10 Any other introductions? Thank you.

11 We will proceed. The Bill McKenzie Humanitarian

12 Society would also like to make a presentation as well,

13 if they may be here.

14 MS. BEALIEAU : He had to leave, but he did

15 indicate that he would be back shortly.

16 THE CHAIRMAN: (No translation)

17 After the introduction of the people who will be

18 speaking as intervenors or from the presentation, at

19 this time we also want to have the opportunity to

20 introduce with the Elders. If the Elders have any

21 specific concerns, we will allow them the opportunity

22 to say their piece, if they have any, and their

23 opinion, concerns as we proceed with the public

24 hearing. And we want to show our respect to the Elders

25 and to respect their wisdom and their experience, and

26 that was part of the cultural fabric that we see in

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1 Nunavut . We thought that would be appropriate, and we

2 will allow the Elders to have that opportunity to speak

3 throughout the public hearing. So they will be allowed

4 to applicate , to speak.

5 At this time with the agenda, we will continue on

6 down the list to the presenters. Each agencies, if

7 they haven't introduced themselves, I would like them

8 to introduce themselves at this time so they'll be able

9 to participate, or any individual, anyone from the

10 general public. They just need to specify who they

11 are, their name, state their name, and who they are

12 representing. They need to specify that.

13 And at this time I want to ask -- to my knowledge,

14 no organisation or individual has made any motion or

15 stated written objection to the ordering of this

16 hearing, but at this time I will ask if there's any

17 motion or objection to the public hearing. If any

18 organisation or individual had objection to the holding

19 of this hearing, please come forward, state their

20 concern and reasons to object. So there's nobody

21 showing up.

22 So we have -- can I have -- okay. Before we

23 proceed, continue on, I'd like to call -- we'll take a

24 10-minute break, so we'll be back by 25 minutes to

25 four. Thank you.

26 (PROCEEDINGS ADJOURNED AT 3:25 P.M.)

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1 (PROCEEDINGS RESUMED AT 3:35 P.M.)

2 THE CHAIRMAN: Okay, so let's proceed with our

3 agenda. We resume the meeting session. At this time,

4 we will proceed with the questioning of the parties on

5 the water component application. Please identify

6 yourself by raising your hand if you wish to ask

7 questions to the applicant or to make a comment or

8 remark on what you just heard. Before we move on to

9 more presentations by interested parties, are there any

10 questions for the Board or staff to any of these

11 intervenors ?

12 DIAND goes first, and --

13 DIAND QUESTIONS THE CITY OF IQALUIT:

14 MR . WEBBER: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Lee

15 Webber with Justice Canada, with DIAND . Jim Rogers

16 from DIAND is going to be asking a couple of specific

17 questions in just a moment.

18 First of all, though, I wanted to raise a question

19 with respect to the presentation from the City and the

20 ability of DIAND , and perhaps other intervenors , to

21 pose feasible questions of that presentation. The

22 presentation was, indeed, delivered just now.

23 Unfortunately, hard copies of the presentation are not

24 yet available. DIAND is a little bit concerned that it

25 may not have been able adequately to take in and recall

26 the pieces of information, all the pieces of

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1 information that were provided in the oral

2 presentation. There's a sense generally, having

3 listened to the presentation, that some of the content

4 may be such that DIAND would like to look it over and

5 perhaps present some questions additional to those that

6 are going to be asked in a couple of minutes.

7 So, as I say, Mr. Rogers is going to be asking

8 some questions, but we were also wondering if it would

9 be possible for the City to provide, perhaps before we

10 finish off tonight, to provide a hard copy or hard

11 copies for everybody who is here, hard copies of the

12 presentation so that we could look those over hopefully

13 prior to tomorrow. If the City is in a position to do

14 that, perhaps the Board, as well, could also leave it

15 open to DIAND and other intervenors to supplement

16 whatever questions are asked today about this portion

17 of the presentation with, if need be, further questions

18 on that same portion of the presentation tomorrow once

19 we have had the chance to look over the hard copy of

20 the presentation.

21 THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. Rogers, if you would continue.

22 MR . ROGERS: Yes, sorry about that. I have

23 three questions. I will ask the three questions, and

24 then we can -- if that's all right with the Board, and

25 then -- because they might intermingle the answers to

26 these questions.

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1 The first question is the -- during our review of

2 the application, we have some concerns over the

3 hydrology or the water supply study for Lake Geraldine

4 on the firm supply from the reservoir, high/lows, and

5 we would like to ask the City if they are recording

6 lake levels over time of Lake Geraldine and measuring

7 outflows so they can make a better estimate of the

8 inflows and comparing that to the records of nearby

9 streams.

10 The second question is to deal with the -- within

11 the application there was a note on the potential need

12 for additional recharge. We would like the City to

13 clarify that issue. Is additional recharge being

14 reviewed? INAC has concerns because it doesn't appear

15 to be part of the license application, but it was

16 included within the application, and it has not been

17 brought up in the presentation.

18 And the third has to do with the safety of the dam

19 structure and the dam and issues that go along with

20 that. For example, within the presentation you

21 mentioned that you've done a recent inspection. We

22 have not seen a copy of that inspection, and I would

23 suggest that you provide a copy of that inspection

24 record -- inspection to the Board, and they can

25 distribute it as it is. But the dam safety issue and

26 emergency preparedness plan was not mentioned in the

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1 presentation. It perhaps will be mentioned later. It

2 is a fairly high-hazard dam. It is above a large

3 portion of the City. So it's not -- I know an

4 instantaneous failure of the dam is unlikely, but other

5 types of failures within the structure could have

6 implications on the City, and there should be an

7 emergency preparedness plan, and it should be provided

8 to the Board as part of the licensing procedure.

9 So those are our three questions, but we would

10 like -- we would still like the Board to agree that

11 after we've reviewed the presentation more fully, we

12 have a chance to refer back to it, that is, if we could

13 get -- if hard copies are provided to the Board today.

14 Thank you.

15 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Does the City wish to

16 respond at this time?

17 THE CITY OF IQALUIT RESPONDS TO DIAND :

18 MR . BAKER: Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of

19 the Board.

20 To address your first request for the hard copy of

21 the presentation to be provided today, I don't think

22 there's any new information presented as part of this

23 PowerPoint presentation. All the information derived

24 for the presentation came out of the reports that have

25 been previously submitted to the Board, but if Indian

26 and Northern Affairs would like a hard copy of the

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1 presentation, we don't have a problem with providing

2 that, but I'd just like to note that there is no new

3 information included in these presentations. It's

4 solely derived from reports that have been priorly

5 submitted to the Board.

6 To address your first question of are we recording

7 lake levels presently; no, we are not. We do not

8 monitor the water levels at the Lake Geraldine dam;

9 however, we will endeavour to have a consultant draw up

10 a monitoring protocol and guidelines for monitoring the

11 lake levels. We'll endeavour to do that prior to

12 summer of 2006.

13 Additional recharge requirements, I think I'll

14 defer that question to Mr. Steve Burden. Actually, can

15 I go ahead and go on to the next question, and we'll go

16 back to the additional recharge requirement?

17 With regards to a dam safety inspection, we did

18 provide the Board a copy of a dam safety inspection

19 dated February 2005. That was the last dam safety

20 inspection we did. As part of the Lake Geraldine

21 expansion of the spillway and the berms going --

22 scheduled for construction this summer, 2006, there

23 will be a new dam safety review required as part of

24 that construction. So, there will be a new dam safety

25 review performed during the -- or after the

26 construction of the expansion of the dam.

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1 MR . BURDEN: With regards to the question for

2 the additional recharge, it was identified in a water

3 supply and storage report. It identified a need to --

4 THE CHAIRMAN: Before you -- when you -- before

5 you speak, could you please state your name for the

6 record. Thank you.

7 MR . BURDEN: Sure. Steve Burden with Trow and

8 Associates.

9 The reference to the recharge was a report

10 prepared by Trow and Associates entitled "City of

11 Iqaluit Raw Water Storage and Supply," I believe. That

12 might not be the exact title. It identified a need in

13 the future time to supplement the Lake Geraldine

14 watershed supply. There was a preliminary

15 recommendation for an alternate source, and I believe

16 the City has not undertaken a formal study to identify

17 what will be the actual recharge site at this time.

18 It, I guess, is not an immediate requirement.

19 THE CHAIRMAN Go ahead.

20 MR . BAKER: Thank you. Geoff Baker, City of

21 Iqaluit.

22 I'd just like to add that the report that Steve

23 referenced, the raw water supply and storage report,

24 there are actually two recommendations in that report:

25 One identifying the need for an expansion of the

26 current spillway, and another recommendation to

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1 identify an alternate source for recharge of the Lake

2 Geraldine. The City chose the option of expanding the

3 spillway immediately, and, as I indicated earlier, it

4 will be constructed in the summer of 2006. The

5 requirement for additional recharge to Lake Geraldine,

6 I don't think it's on the City's radar right now.

7 Certainly I don't see it within the next, within the

8 next five years.

9 MR . ROGERS: If I might ask a supplementary

10 question, Mr. Chair. It's Jim Rogers with DIAND .

11 How confident are you in the hydrology? If Trow

12 already did look at the supplementary inflow as -- and

13 normally, your supplementary inflow is only required if

14 you think that the Lake Geraldine is inadequate during

15 low flow years. It was nice to hear that you did

16 expand -- or looked into expansion of the spillway.

17 That was one of our other issues, and I presume that

18 the Government of Nunavut will bring up the issue that

19 they would like to see an alternate source as well for

20 all communities, but that's a separate, separate

21 question.

22 During the presentation I thought I heard that

23 there was a December 2005 inspection of the dam. That

24 could be because we didn't have a hard copy and my

25 mishearing the presentation, sorry. That's all,

26 Mr. Chairman.

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1 THE CHAIRMAN: Lee Webber.

2 MR . WEBBER: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd

3 like to thank Mr. Baker for agreeing to make the hard

4 copy available. Could I just close the loop on that

5 one and get confirmation, if possible, from the panel

6 that we will, indeed, be able to ask further questions

7 on general and water supply and services if, indeed,

8 once we've read the hard copy, we do have further

9 questions.

10 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And

11 so, yes, as a matter of procedure, they have the copies

12 here, as I understand it. They'll provide them to you

13 right away, and it seems a fair request that once

14 you've had a chance to read them, that you have an

15 additional opportunity to come back and ask questions.

16 Simply, though, this is -- they need to be asked

17 now, so you need to read fast and we need to be done by

18 the end of the hearing. So we -- the City

19 understandably would get it to you right away, and

20 please read it as soon as you can and come back to the

21 Board and tell them when you have your questions so we

22 keep it somewhat relatively in order.

23 MR . WEBBER: Fair enough. Thank you.

24 THE CHAIRMAN: We'll proceed with the Environment

25 Canada, Anne Wilson.

26 ENVIRONMENT CANADA QUESTIONS THE CITY OF IQALUIT:

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1 MS. WILSON: Anne Wilson, Environment Canada.

2 Jim Rogers substantially asked my questions, but I

3 would just like to get some clarification and to

4 provide a comment.

5 My question is to do with the recharge. I just

6 wanted to confirm that the City was confident in their

7 need for an additional 89 percent by 2023 being met

8 with a two- metre raising of the dam and the berms ; and

9 just again, on the vein of the recharge question, as to

10 whether sources will have to be identified.

11 MR . BURDEN: Steve Burden, Trow and Associates.

12 The 89 percent reference, actually, the requirement of

13 the available water was never stated that the 89

14 percent would be met with the two- metre extension.

15 They're two different issues: One is supply, and one

16 is storage. The two- metre extension to the Lake

17 Geraldine dam is to provide over-winter storage and the

18 study -- the water and sewer study identified that with

19 the runoff coefficient of .6, which was taken as a

20 number after an analysis of the Sylvia Grinnell River

21 and the Apex River watersheds. At a runoff coefficient

22 of .6, there would require an alternate water supply

23 prior to the year 20-year design life -- or in the

24 study. So, we are recommending that an alternate

25 source be identified, and that would -- the timing

26 would involve, you know, a hydrological study and

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1 monitoring flow levels, et cetera, et cetera, but there

2 will be a requirement based on that runoff coefficient.

3 MS. WILSON: It's Anne Wilson.

4 Thank you for that clarification. I had

5 misunderstood the presentation on that point.

6 And my comment was just that for designing the

7 hydrology protocols, Environment Canada's hydrologists

8 would be available to review for -- on behalf of the

9 Board, as well, whatever was submitted on that. We can

10 provide some help on that. That was all, thanks.

11 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. If there are any more

12 questions to carry on? No other comments or

13 presentations?

14 To continue, the presentation by parties in the

15 following order -- or before we do that, the staff of

16 the Water Board.

17 THE WATER BOARD STAFF QUESTIONS THE CITY OF IQALUIT

18 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dionne

19 Filiatrault .

20 My questions are going to refer specifically to

21 some of the documents that you've provided as part of

22 your application. Excuse me.

23 My first question is in relation to the predesign

24 brief that was done by Earth Tech in March 2002. There

25 was a recommendation in that document that a visual

26 assessment of the intake -- on the intake side of the

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1 dam be done, and I'm wondering if there was any plans

2 or if that was ever implemented.

3 THE CHAIRMAN: Applicant, do you have answers?

4 MR . BAKER: Thank you, Geoff Baker here.

5 To the best of my knowledge, no, the visual

6 assessment of the intake was not done. I don't know if

7 Steve can provide further insight into this. Yeah,

8 okay, he's indicating as well that, no, that visual

9 assessment was never done of the intake.

10 MS. FILIATRAULT : A follow-up up to that. Dionne

11 Filiatrault here.

12 Is there any plans to do that?

13 MR . BAKER: Currently, no. I'd have to say

14 there aren't any plans to undertake that assessment.

15 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chair. Dionne

16 Filiatrault .

17 I guess before I go through my questions, because

18 it may have been answered in your presentation, we kind

19 of got confused in the order of events, but there were

20 two commitments made when you were discussing the

21 second slide regarding the raw water source. There

22 were two commitments made by the City of Iqaluit, and

23 I'm just wondering if you could reiterate what those

24 commitments were.

25 MR . BAKER: I believe the two commitments were

26 the extension of the dam by two metres during the

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1 summer of 2006, which, yes, will go ahead during the

2 summer of 2006; and the other commitment, I'm pretty

3 sure, was to monitor the, monitor the lake levels at

4 the Geraldine dam, and yes, we will be undertaking that

5 as well this summer.

6 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chair.

7 Could you clarify if the monitoring of those lake

8 levels is projected for a single annual event or over

9 the term of the water license requested?

10 THE CHAIRMAN: Applicant, do you have an answer to

11 the question?

12 MR . BAKER: I think once we have --

13 THE CHAIRMAN: Will you please state your name.

14 MR . BAKER: Oh, sorry. Geoff Baker.

15 I think once we develop a monitoring protocol,

16 once we have retained a consultant to undertake the

17 development of a monitoring protocol, that we would

18 have further information at that time as to the, as to

19 the frequency of monitoring.

20 MS. FILIATRAULT : This sort of leads into the next

21 series of questions, and it's related to the water

22 sewage study that was done by Trow in 2002. In section

23 4.1 there was reference that the amount of runoff

24 that's contributing to the recharge of the Lake

25 Geraldine is currently not known, and there was a

26 recommendation by Trow that a detailed water study --

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1 watershed study be undertaken immediately. Can you

2 confirm if this has been done, will be done, and if so,

3 possibly when, or why not?

4 MR . BAKER: A watershed study has not been

5 undertaken. The reason for that, in a short answer, is

6 funding availability. Certainly, we don't have a

7 watershed study plan for this year. I don't, I don't

8 see a watershed study being undertaken. I'm really

9 going out on a limb here, but I would say not within

10 four to five years would we undertake such a study.

11 THE CHAIRMAN: Dionne, do you have more questions?

12 MS. FILIATRAULT : Yes, Mr. Chair, I have quite a few,

13 actually.

14 This report also discussed development off the

15 Road to Nowhere and that development in this direction

16 may impact Lake Geraldine watershed, and it was

17 recommended that no development would be situated

18 within the boundaries of the Lake Geraldine watershed.

19 I'm just wondering if you could comment on whether or

20 not, you know, given that this document was done in

21 2002, if that is still the case, that there is no

22 current development happening within the Lake Geraldine

23 watershed and there's none proposed.

24 MR . BAKER: Geoff Baker.

25 No, to the best of my knowledge, there is no

26 development plan for the, for the Road to Nowhere

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1 watershed area.

2 THE CHAIRMAN: Dionne.

3 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

4 The next question relates to the raw water supply

5 and storage review that was done by Trow in 2004 where,

6 again, they talk about the raising of the dam by two

7 metres . They indicated that additional information

8 must be done at the preliminary design phase. At this

9 point in time, if -- from what I understand, this work

10 is being proposed for 2006; is that correct?

11 MR . BAKER: Geoff Baker.

12 Yes, that is correct.

13 MS. FILIATRAULT : And if that's the case, when can

14 this Board expect to see the final designs for

15 construction for that upgrade?

16 MR . BURDEN: Steve Burden, Trow and Associates.

17 We're preparing the submission on behalf of the City of

18 Iqaluit, and they're currently reviewing that

19 submission. I would suspect within the next week or so

20 they will give us approval to forward copies to the

21 Water Board.

22 THE CHAIRMAN: Dionne, do you have more questions?

23 MS. FILIATRAULT : The next question is related to the

24 draft preliminary design report for raw storage by

25 Trow , March 2005. They indicate in section 4 that

26 there needs to be an analysis of the existing structure

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1 for stability, and I'm wondering if the City considers

2 -- if the City's geotechnical engineer or their

3 consultant considers the assessment that was provided

4 by Trow to be a full and complete stability analysis,

5 or if further work is needed.

6 MR . BAKER: No, for all intents purposes -- or

7 sorry. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Geoff Baker.

8 I would say, for all intents and purposes, that

9 the analysis is complete and no further work there

10 would be required.

11 THE CHAIRMAN: Dionne?

12 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dionne

13 Filiatrault .

14 This relates to the dam safety review for Lake

15 Geraldine done by Trow , 2001. Given that the dam

16 safety review was conducted in 2001, you indicated that

17 a dam safety inspection would be done following the

18 construction of the upgrade, but would a dam safety

19 review also be initiated following the upgrade?

20 MR . BAKER: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Geoff Baker.

21 I think I indicated that it would actually be a

22 dam safety review that would be required after the

23 construction and not a dam safety inspection.

24 THE CHAIRMAN: Dionne.

25 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a

26 couple more questions.

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1 In the same document and, in further, in the dam

2 safety inspection that was done, I believe, in 2005

3 that it was the same issue, it's indicated that the dam

4 is in non-compliance with the requirements of section 3

5 and 4 of the dam safety guidelines. What action does

6 the City propose to take to address the issue of

7 non-compliance with the dam safety guidelines? And I

8 refer specifically to the development of a permanent

9 file operational maintenance manual or log book and an

10 emergency preparedness plan, some of which you did

11 address in your June 1st, 2005, letter, but if you

12 could just elaborate for the record.

13 THE CHAIRMAN: Applicant, do you have more

14 answers?

15 MR . BAKER: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Geoff Baker.

16 You're right. In the dam safety inspection of

17 2005 we were considered in non-compliance with regards

18 to an emergency preparedness plan operation and

19 maintenance manual. I think I would propose that

20 following the dam safety review that's required as a

21 result of the expansion, that we would take the

22 recommendations from that report and certainly attempt

23 to bring, bring the Lake Geraldine dam within

24 compliance.

25 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's

26 all my questions.

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1 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. In accordance with our

2 agenda, we can proceed to the next item. Is there any

3 more questions of the Applicants? There doesn't appear

4 to be one.

5 Maybe I should take -- ask -- take a short break

6 again before I go on. I just need some particular

7 direction here at the moment, so I'll give you another

8 ten minutes to take a short break, please.

9 (PROCEEDINGS ADJOURNED AT 4:05 P.M.)

10 (PROCEEDINGS RESUMED AT 4:16 P.M.)

11 THE CHAIRMAN: Let's proceed with our agenda.

12 Let's proceed with the presentation by the parties in

13 the following orders: DIAND goes first, and then

14 Environment Canada, DFO , and Government of Nunavut .

15 So, start with DIAND . Before proceeding, our legal

16 counsel will swear in -- get sworn in first.

17 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Please

18 state your name and spell your last name for the

19 record.

20 MR . ROGERS: Jim Rogers, R-O-G-E-R-S.

21 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you. Please state your name

22 and spell your last name for the record.

23 MR . HOOS : Rick Hoos , H-O-O-S.

24 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you. Please state your name

25 and spell your last name for the record.

26 MR . KUSUGAK : Peter Kusugak , K-U-S-U-G-A-K.

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1 JIM ROGERS, SWORN

2 RICK HOOS , SWORN

3 PETER KUSUGAK , SWORN

4 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

5 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. So proceed with your

6 presentation, DIAND . Thank you.

7 PRESENTATION BY DIAND :

8 MR . ROGERS: Thank you. Good afternoon,

9 Mr. Chairman, Board members, Water Board staff, City of

10 Iqaluit, and interested people. My name is Jim Rogers,

11 and I am here today as acting director of the

12 operations directorate of Nunavut regional office of

13 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. I want to thank

14 the Water Board for the opportunity for INAC to speak

15 to you and the community members here today. I'd also

16 like to welcome the Board members -- the members of the

17 Board and staff to Iqaluit.

18 INAC shares with the Nunavut Water Board the goal

19 of -- the goal contained in the Nunavut Waters and

20 Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act to consider any

21 detrimental effects of the potential use of water or a

22 deposit of waste on other waters. Therefore, we are

23 confident in the process developed by the Board to meet

24 this goal.

25 Our presentation today is a short summary of our

26 full written submission already provided to the Board,

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1 and we'll only highlight those issues that we feel need

2 to be brought to the attention of the Board.

3 I'd like to apologise at this time for Michael

4 Nadler , the Regional Director General of Indian and

5 Northern Affairs. He planned on being here this

6 morning, got delayed, and he got called away from the

7 office. Well, he was here this morning. Okay.

8 Also joining me today from the Nunavut office are

9 Ian Rumbolt , he's in the chair behind, he's acting

10 regional coordinator; Peter Kusugak at my right, two to

11 my right, he's the manager field operations; Lee

12 Webber, he's our legal counsel on my right; and

13 Richard -- Rick Hoos with EBA on my left; Pat Larocque ,

14 who is a water resource officer for INAC , was here

15 earlier, but he went back to the office. He'll be here

16 tomorrow for discussion on solid waste and the waste

17 water. I hope the Board accepts the information and

18 advice provided.

19 Ah, I see, okay. I'm technologically challenged.

20 I must emphasise to the Board and the public that

21 our presentation today is only a short summary of our

22 written submission. We're only highlighting the issues

23 that we feel need to be brought to the attention of the

24 Board. We refer you to our written submission for

25 expanded comments.

26 INAC is committed to providing the best possible

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1 advice to the Water Board, including in the areas of

2 water quantity/quality, the hydrology, the hydrogeology

3 or ground water, metal leeching or the potential

4 dissolving of metals by water and moving them through

5 the rocks and geology, permafrost or permanently frozen

6 ground, the geotechnical engineering side or stability

7 of the rock dams, et cetera; and then, of course, later

8 on, the waste management and abandonment restoration.

9 Under the Nunavut Water and Nunavut Surface Rights

10 Tribunal Act, the INAC minister is responsible to

11 approve type A water licenses recommended by the Water

12 Board. Also, INAC will enforce the terms and

13 conditions of water licenses issued by the Board for

14 the City of Iqaluit. INAC responsibility -- one down.

15 INAC 's responsibilities and mandate for the

16 Iqaluit water license stem from the following acts:

17 The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern

18 Development Act, which is the act that formed the

19 department and gives its mandate; the Nunavut Land

20 Claims Agreement Act, it's the act that informs --

21 enforces the land claims for the Nunavut territory; and

22 the Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal

23 Act. Of course, the DIAND is a department of the

24 Government of Canada and must abide by all federal

25 legislation. A copy of this legislation could be

26 provided upon request if required.

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1 INAC also shares regulatory responsibilities with

2 these other federal and territorial departments and

3 agencies who are also in attendance and participating

4 in the hearing.

5 This presentation right now will be on the water

6 supply, including the raising of Lake Geraldine. Later

7 on, we'll talk about solid waste storage sites and the

8 waste water treatment and disposal. As agreed in the

9 -- as agreed in the January 17th prehearing , it was

10 divided into these three areas, and we agree with that.

11 The application submitted by the City of Iqaluit

12 consists primarily of a variety of plans and reports

13 created by consultants for the City of Iqaluit over a

14 number of years. For its water license application,

15 the City has not consolidated the reports into a

16 cohesive plan for the municipality, so shortfalls,

17 overlaps, and gaps can be easily identified.

18 Also, the City does not clearly indicate in its

19 application which recommendations from its consultants

20 have been or will be adopted. INAC and its technical

21 reviewers had difficulty following the water license

22 application and the intentions of the City. However,

23 INAC does acknowledge that the City of Iqaluit has made

24 an effort in answering requests for information and the

25 filling of the gaps in the plans.

26 INAC appreciates the City of Iqaluit's fiscal and

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1 human resource constraints but believes a unified,

2 clear, and comprehensive plan would reduce the overall

3 cost to the City by reducing overlaps and errors. An

4 overall plan would also assist the City to implement

5 best practices in the management of the municipal water

6 and its other facilities and wastes to protect the

7 receiving environment and the citizens of Iqaluit.

8 INAC recommends that a condition of the water license

9 be for the City to develop a comprehensive management

10 plan that should be updated regularly and copied to the

11 Board.

12 Water supply: We would now address several

13 aspects of the license application related to the Lake

14 Geraldine supply. Storage capacity expansion:

15 Indications are that the City has decided to increase

16 the storage capacity of Lake Geraldine by raising the

17 existing dam and berms by two metres , as given earlier

18 in the presentation by the City, and constructing a new

19 saddle berm south of the existing dam.

20 INAC recommends that the license require that

21 measures be taken to prevent erosion and release of

22 sediment into water flowing into Lake Geraldine -- from

23 Lake Geraldine and into lake Geraldine during the

24 construction of the new berms and expansion of the dam.

25 This would be considered deposition of waste into water

26 and should be included in the license.

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1 INAC feels the reservoir inflows used for

2 estimating available supply is questionable. Watershed

3 yield calculations presented on page 14 of section 4.1

4 of the Iqaluit water and sewer supply, or also called

5 Trow 2002, appear to use a watershed yield approaching

6 100 percent, meaning that all precipitation following

7 on the watershed that enters Lake Geraldine without

8 consideration of losses due to evapo or transpiration

9 or use by plants, evaporation or infiltration into the

10 ground.

11 The City of Iqaluit should ensure that Lake

12 Geraldine has sufficient inflow to provide adequate

13 reservoir storage for the eight-month winter period

14 when little or no flow will occur. INAC recommends a

15 further in-depth study of the water supply capability

16 of Lake Geraldine and its ability to meet future needs

17 should be done.

18 INAC suggests that the City of Iqaluit monitors

19 the level of the reservoir and calculates outflow over

20 the life of the license, surveys the lake bottom and

21 shores to improve the estimates of total and live

22 storage of the reservoir, and develops a better water

23 balance. We would also like to see an analysis of the

24 risk. All the presentations so far use mean flow or

25 the averages, and the old adage is if you have your

26 head in the fridge and your feet in the stove, on the

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1 average you're fine. Well, there is concern with low

2 flow periods, we would like to add in that.

3 INAC recommends that these measurements begin this

4 spring and that data be provided to the Board. INAC

5 believes this lack of adequate inflow information

6 constitutes a serious deficiency in the application and

7 a new license should require the City to develop an

8 effective water supply plan within a time set by the

9 Board.

10 Additional recharge of Lake Geraldine: In

11 addition to the recharge of the reservoir -- recharge

12 of the reservoir should be required -- if additional

13 recharge is required, the City should apply to the

14 Board to amend the license that it will give at this

15 time and the source of the supplementary inflow should

16 be identified. The City's consultant, Trow , did

17 identify the Apex River as a possible recharge source

18 for Lake Geraldine in the report submitted with the

19 application.

20 Dam safety: Since the dam on Lake Geraldine is

21 above the City, a dam safety programme , including

22 inspection and an emergency preparedness plan, should

23 be developed. INAC suggests that the City provide a

24 more comprehensive summary of the construction and

25 operation of the dam. Details of what we feel are

26 required in this comprehensive study are included in

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1 our submission.

2 An emergency preparedness plan is required for

3 every dam of moderate consequence category or higher,

4 and we consider this is a high-consequence dam. The

5 City of Iqaluit has also identified this as a

6 high-consequence category dam since it is situated

7 immediately above the populated areas of the

8 municipality, and the location of emergency response

9 groups such as the hospital, the fire hall, and the

10 ambulance are all located immediately downstream of the

11 dam.

12 INAC recommends that the Board encourages the City

13 of Iqaluit to develop a dam safety programme of

14 inspection and an emergency preparedness plan for a

15 number of scenarios up to the loss of the dam

16 structure.

17 Watershed protection: The City should implement

18 contingency measures to protect the watershed supplying

19 Lake Geraldine to keep the water from being

20 contaminated, and if a supplementary supply is

21 proposed, the watershed upstream of the diversion point

22 should also be protected from activities that could

23 impair the water quality. An extra point would be for

24 the City to identify a secondary source of water if

25 Lake Geraldine becomes unsuitable for any reason.

26 Moving away from Lake Geraldine into water

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1 treatment: The report "Municipality of Iqaluit Water

2 Treatment Predesign Brief" by Earth Tech, March 2002,

3 noted that based on treatability studies, it is

4 recommended that 40 minutes be provided for this

5 system, unless treatability analysis shows otherwise.

6 INAC could not confirm whether these treatability

7 studies were undertaken, what the results indicated,

8 and if the City implemented any recommendations. INAC

9 believes the City should indicate if the treatability

10 studies were undertaken, what the results were, and

11 what procedures and treatment plants were implemented

12 based on these studies.

13 That's all for now, Mr. Chairman.

14 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Jim Baker (sic).

15 Applicant, do you have a question to DIAND 's

16 presentation?

17 COMMENTS BY THE CITY OF IQALUIT:

18 MR . BAKER: No, I don't really have a question,

19 perhaps just a comment. Recommendations from Indian

20 and Northern Affairs --

21 THE CHAIRMAN: Please state your name.

22 MR . BAKER: Sorry, Geoff Baker, City of

23 Iqaluit.

24 As I say, I don't have a question, more of a

25 comment. I thank Indian and Northern Affairs for their

26 intervention. All your comments are certainly taken

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1 seriously. I just want to state again that we do have

2 a dam expansion project scheduled for this year, as

3 well as a new treated water storage tank plan for

4 construction this summer. We're looking at a cost of

5 about 4.5 to $5 million for these two facilities.

6 The City at this time could certainly not

7 financially take on such projects as a bathymetric

8 survey, another water supply study, a watershed

9 investigation, an emergency preparedness plan, an O&M

10 manual, a permanent log file, water level monitoring,

11 watershed protection measures, identify a second source

12 for raw water supply, as well as undertake treatability

13 studies.

14 I just wanted to state that we are making best

15 efforts here and -- although none of these

16 recommendations are taken in vain, and we'll certainly

17 do our best to implement what is, what is financially

18 possible.

19 MR . ROGERS: Since INAC enforces the water

20 license --

21 THE CHAIRMAN: Could you --

22 MR . ROGERS: Oh, sorry, Jim Rogers, INAC .

23 Since INAC will be responsible for enforcing the

24 water license or enforcing the act, I would presume

25 that Geoff meant he's going to raise the dam pending

26 the license.

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1 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. I think I mentioned you

2 by the wrong name. Jim Rogers, sorry.

3 Okay, is there any other question or comment from

4 other parties or applicants?

5 MR . BAKER: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Geoff Baker,

6 City of Iqaluit.

7 No, we would certainly not undertake any

8 construction of the expansion of the dam without the

9 approval of the Water Board. Thank you.

10 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Does the Water Board

11 staff have comments or --

12 MS. FILIATRAULT : Yeah, I do.

13 THE CHAIRMAN: Water Board staff, Dionne.

14 WATER BOARD STAFF QUESTIONS DIAND :

15 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dionne

16 Filiatrault .

17 Based on -- thank you for your presentation.

18 Based on your presentation and through recommendations

19 that have been made in past technical meetings and in

20 your final submission in the presentation, you --

21 there's lot of recommendations that are made by DIAND .

22 Understanding the fiscal constraints of the community

23 and other constraints that they may have, has DIAND

24 prioritised the recommendations that they have provided

25 such that what they see as sort of high priority as

26 opposed to low priority?

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1 MR . ROGERS: At this time we have not listed

2 them in priorities. The -- it's very difficult to

3 manage a resource that you don't understand, so I would

4 suggest that this spring that they start measuring

5 water levels. It's not a large expense. That would be

6 a priority, and it's not something that would be

7 costly.

8 The emergency preparedness plan: There was some

9 plans developed in the 1980s . Those could be updated.

10 That's -- I would feel uncomfortable living in a

11 community that doesn't have a contingency plan for --

12 in any respect. I assume there is plans there; we just

13 haven't seen them. That's a good-to-have, ongoing

14 project that the City should undertake. Whether it

15 needs to be done immediately is -- no, but it should be

16 started and it should be an ongoing process. Most of

17 these are ongoing processes.

18 The risk analysis, the City should do a risk

19 analysis of their water supply because it does get dry

20 here once in a while, and therefore, they should do the

21 risk analysis. I believe they have -- their

22 consultants or the engineers have the data. Apex was

23 monitored for a number of years by Environment Canada,

24 so was the Sylvia Grinnell . It would give them an idea

25 of the risk analysis. That -- that's not a large

26 expense, either.

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1 The others would, as the fiscal constraints --

2 maybe if you have lots of money, you can do it. We all

3 have fiscal constraints. It -- I would suggest that

4 the Board will prioritise the requirements within the

5 license, and I would agree with that.

6 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you.

7 Applicant, do you have a comment?

8 MR . BAKER: Geoff Baker, City of Iqaluit.

9 I was just informed that we do in fact have a

10 bathymetric survey of Lake Geraldine from 1980 --

11 mid-' 80s , and we will certainly provide a copy to the

12 Board once it is located.

13 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Any more questions from

14 other parties? So there is none.

15 Okay, thank you, DIAND .

16 Okay, next presentation will be from Environment

17 Canada.

18 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Before I

19 swear in the Environment Canada's witness, Anne, could

20 I just propose, then, that we enter as exhibits number

21 4 and 5 the presentation that DIAND just gave to us.

22 Number 4 would be their submission and the PowerPoint

23 presentation and the hard copy, and then number 5 would

24 be the same thing but it would be filed in the

25 electronic copy.

26 So if there are any objections to, that we should

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1 deal with them. Let's ask the parties if there are.

2 And I see none, Mr. Chairman, then let's mark number

3 four and five accordingly.

4 EXHIBIT 4:

5 IQALUIT WATER LICENSE, INAC SUBMISSION

6 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION - HARD COPY

7 EXHIBIT 5:

8 INAC POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, ELECTRONIC COPY

9 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And so,

10 now I'll swear in the witness for Environment Canada.

11 Please state your name and spell your last name

12 for the record.

13 MS. WILSON: Anne Wilson, W-I-L-S-O-N.

14 ANNE WILSON, SWORN

15 MR . TILLEMAN : Thank you.

16 THE CHAIRMAN: Anne Wilson, you can proceed.

17 Thank you.

18 PRESENTATION BY ENVIRONMENT CANADA:

19 MS. WILSON: Thank you. Good afternoon,

20 Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, and all the parties

21 in attendance. My name is Anne Wilson. I'm a water

22 pollution specialist with Environment Canada, and I'm

23 here to present Environment Canada's intervention.

24 It's not working now. Thank you. Technical

25 difficulties here.

26 Okay. We'll be intervening over the next two or

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1 two and a half days on the three areas of the water

2 license: the water supply, treatment, storage, and

3 distribution today, of course, and then over the next

4 day or so the solid waste management and the waste

5 water treatment.

6 Next slide. This is one way to make sure I speak

7 slowly enough for the translators. Thank you.

8 Environment Canada has several mandated interests

9 in this proceeding. The operation of municipal

10 facilities associated with the water license will be

11 subject to several pieces of legislation which are

12 administered by Environment Canada. They are section

13 36(3) of the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental

14 Protection Act and its regulations, the Migratory Bird

15 Convention Act and Regulation, and there is a more

16 detailed description of our roles under each of these

17 pieces of legislation in our technical report.

18 So our points of concern that I'll just briefly go

19 over today are more fully detailed in the technical

20 report. I'll just cover the erosion control aspect of

21 dam construction, the concerns with improving

22 understanding of hydrology, and then looking at the

23 recharge of the water source.

24 To start with erosion control, to increase the

25 storage capacity within Lake Geraldine, the City

26 proposes to raise the existing containment berms and

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1 dam by two metres this summer and to construct a new

2 berm south of the dam. Environment Canada recommends

3 that the license require that measures be taken to

4 prevent the release of sediment into the water flowing

5 from Lake Geraldine, and into Lake Geraldine itself,

6 during the construction of the new south berm and the

7 expansion of the existing berms and dam, and I was

8 pleased to hear within the City's presentation today

9 those undertakings for mitigation.

10 Next slide. Our specific recommendations, which

11 were substantially covered in the City's presentation,

12 include the following: The construction materials be

13 free of fines or contaminates, the mitigation -- that

14 mitigation measures to prevent siltation be used such

15 as use of silt fences or curtains, and that shoreline

16 stability be protected throughout all construction

17 activities.

18 Next slide. The next issue is the additional

19 recharge for Lake Geraldine. It appears that fresh

20 water demands may exceed the volumes which can be

21 withdrawn from Lake Geraldine over the winter period

22 and use of an additional recharge area or water source

23 may be necessary.

24 To this end, Environment Canada recommends that a

25 better understanding of Lake Geraldine hydrology is

26 needed in order to manage the water supply.

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1 Environment Canada recommends that the license require

2 the City of Iqaluit to monitor fluctuations in the

3 level of the reservoir so that annual inputs from

4 precipitation and snow melt are better understood. An

5 annual water balance should be drawn up.

6 Next slide. If, as expected, the water balance

7 shows additional volumes will be needed, it's

8 recommended that the City pro-actively plan for a new

9 recharge location. Environment Canada recommends that

10 the license require that the City submit a plan

11 identifying potential recharge locations to the Nunavut

12 Water Board for review prior to development.

13 Given that this may be a future need, as we've

14 heard, the City is also encouraged to incorporate this

15 into their land use planning when establishing

16 municipal plans to ensure that the watershed chosen is

17 protected from anthropogenic or manmade sources of

18 pollution.

19 Last one. That concludes this part of my

20 presentation. I'd be happy to answer any questions

21 people may have. Thank you.

22 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Anne Wilson. Before we

23 proceed with a question, I would like to call for a

24 five-minute break. Thank you.

25 (PROCEEDINGS ADJOURNED AT 4:45 P.M.)

26 (PROCEEDINGS RESUMED AT 4:55 P.M.)

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1 THE CHAIRMAN: Let's proceed with our agenda. We

2 have Environment Canada on the floor, so question

3 period is open to Environment Canada. Can I have --

4 open the floor for the applicant to ask questions, if

5 you have to ask questions or comments to Environment

6 Canada. Thank you.

7 MR . BAKER: Geoff Baker. No, no questions.

8 Thank you for the presentation, and...

9 THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any more question or

10 comment from other parties?

11 Is there any question or comment from the Water

12 Board staff?

13 WATER BOARD STAFF QUESTIONS ENVIRONMENT CANADA:

14 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dionne

15 Filiatrault .

16 Similar to the previous presentation that we heard

17 from INAC , Environment Canada makes recommendations for

18 submitting further plans or additional information on,

19 for example, the hydrology. Does Environment Canada

20 have any indication as far as what is considered a

21 priority, given, again, the fiscal constraints and

22 whatnot that the town has?

23 Also, in that same vein, sort of looking towards

24 the next sections of the submissions for solid waste

25 and waste disposal, what I would propose is that all

26 intervenors could prepare a submission -- an exhibit

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1 for the Board that would outline the plans that the

2 intervenors were proposing to submit and issue a

3 priority level to them as far as whether they consider

4 it a high priority, low priority, and whether or not

5 this document is some -- or obviously operational

6 plans, but given the expansion plans and things that

7 are happening with the community, sort of giving some

8 time lines on when they foresee providing these plans

9 if they -- depending on the priority that you see.

10 MS. WILSON: Anne Wilson, Environment Canada.

11 The recommendations that we made with respect to

12 the dam construction will, of course, have to happen on

13 the ground as the dam is being raised, and I trust that

14 that would be included in the City's budget for

15 construction.

16 The hydrology should be a fairly simple matter of

17 measuring levels and then thinking on the bigger

18 picture to look at the recommendations of whatever the

19 consultant puts forth. That data will inform future

20 planning for the recharge, so we can't really suggest a

21 time frame for that until a little more operational

22 data for management purposes has been gathered. So I

23 think that should be on the horizon, but I can't put a

24 time to the recharge planning.

25 And thank you for the suggestion ahead of time on

26 the other recommended plans. That will be very helpful

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1 to think about ahead of time to prioritise those.

2 Thanks.

3 THE CHAIRMAN: Dionne?

4 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's

5 all the questions.

6 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you.

7 Thank you, Anne Wilson, for your presentation.

8 MS. FILIATRAULT : Mr. Chairman, I would propose that

9 the hard copy of the presentation made by Environment

10 Canada with respect to the water supply be marked as

11 Exhibit 6. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

12 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Dionne.

13 EXHIBIT 6:

14 CITY OF IQALUIT TYPE A WATER LICENSE GENERAL

15 WATER & SUPPLY SERVICES POWERPOINT , HARD COPY

16 THE CHAIRMAN: Before we start with another

17 presentation, can I ask of DFO how long your

18 presentation will be, about?

19 MR . MOGGY : Five minutes, maybe. Pretty short.

20 MR . TILLEMAN : Please state your name for the

21 record and -- please state your name on the record and

22 spell your last name.

23 MR . MOGGY : Derek Moggy , M-O-G-G-Y.

24 DEREK MOGGY , SWORN:

25 THE CHAIRMAN: Derek, can you proceed?

26 PRESENTATION BY DFO :

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1 MR . MOGGY : I did prepare a PowerPoint

2 presentation there. It's not very long. Well, I'll

3 get started.

4 Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the Board

5 there for providing DFO with an opportunity to provide

6 comment on the City of Iqaluit's water license.

7 As I stated before, I'm a habitat management

8 biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada here in

9 Iqaluit. The mandate of Fisheries and Oceans Canada is

10 to conserve and protect fish and fish habitat to ensure

11 sustainable fisheries for all Canadians. The Fisheries

12 Act provides the basis for this responsibility, and it

13 is federal legislation established to manage and

14 protect Canada's fisheries resources. It contains

15 specific sections known as the habitat protection

16 provisions, and the following list up there are some of

17 the more pertinent sections within the act that are

18 considered under the habitat protection provisions.

19 We also work from a policy for the management of

20 fish habitat. There's various strategies and goals

21 within that, within that document there. The main one

22 that we deal with on a regular basis is the goal of

23 conservation and the no-net-loss principle. We strive

24 to work with the proponent to mitigate any impacts to

25 fish habitat, and in the event that all the feasible

26 alternatives are unworkable, then we could consider

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1 issuing a formal authorisation and try to balance out

2 that loss of habitat with a gain in habitat.

3 Another key aspect of -- within the policy is, is

4 through integrated resource management and working with

5 the boards like the Nunavut Water Board to ensure that

6 fish habitat is protected by working closely with these

7 boards.

8 I didn't have a lot of comments. What I basically

9 did was try to key it down into two main topics that I

10 had. The one was related to the water supply, and it

11 was specifically with respect to the alternate sources.

12 At one point I think during -- I think it was prior to

13 the technical hearing in 2004 there, I did identify

14 that the City of Iqaluit was looking for alternate

15 sources for water. At that time I requested some

16 clarification on that, and it wasn't identified as

17 something that was going to be done sooner than later.

18 Again, it was just brought up within this latest

19 review of the information that was submitted, and what

20 we've heard today again is just that it's probably

21 something that's not on the horizon in the next five

22 years, which I understand would be the end of the water

23 license.

24 However, I just wanted to bring it to the Board's

25 attention that at that point, an area like the Apex

26 River would require additional work to be done before

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1 we could start looking at water withdrawal out of that

2 area and the construction activity that would be

3 required to put a water intake in there. Some baseline

4 aquatic data might be necessary -- or would be

5 necessary so that we could do an adequate review.

6 So, again, it's probably not something that's

7 going to happen under this water license, but it's an

8 extension to the City of Iqaluit, as well, just to come

9 talk to DFO and make sure that we've got those

10 fisheries issues sorted out so that when we do go to

11 the Water Board license phase, it's in pretty good

12 shape.

13 The second issue that I -- or item that I wanted

14 to bring to the Board's attention was just based on

15 construction plans. I think you've heard from INAC and

16 Environment Canada today regarding some of the

17 construction activities around the water supply and the

18 need for sedimentation and erosion control. And again,

19 this is something that will apply to that aspect plus

20 various other parts of municipal infrastructure.

21 So while -- although I'll present it here in the

22 water supply section, it's something that could be

23 applied to all the other water -- or all the other

24 municipal infrastructure as well, such as the sewage

25 lagoon. I've made -- I've provided a few suggestions

26 in terms of things that the City might want to keep in

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2 and I'd certainly encourage them to incorporate these

3 into their plans.

4 So those were, those were my only two comments

5 that I offer to the Board, and I'd be happy to take any

6 questions now.

7 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Derek.

8 Mr. -- question or comment from the applicant?

9 MR . BAKER: Geoff Baker, City of Iqaluit. No,

10 no questions.

11 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Is there comments of

12 applicants -- sorry, comments or questions from other

13 parties? Thank you. Or is there question or comment

14 from Water Board staff?

15 WATER BOARD STAFF QUESTIONS DFO :

16 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

17 Derek, back in 2004 prior to the technical

18 meeting, one of DFO 's requests was -- for the Lake

19 Geraldine was provision of aquatic biota for Lake

20 Geraldine itself. Specifically, DFO was requesting

21 additional information to assess impacts to fish and

22 fish habitat within the lake and downstream to

23 Koojjesse Inlet. I'm wondering if this issue has been

24 resolved to DFO and that information was provided to

25 you.

26 MR . MOGGY : Yeah, I remember discussing that,

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2 suggested that there was probably some bathymetric data

3 that was available for Lake Geraldine, and they'd

4 committed to providing me that, and based on that, then

5 I could decide whether a further assessment was

6 necessary. And I have to apologise if I did get that

7 and I didn't forward it on to the Board, but anyways , I

8 did get a copy of the bathymetric date, and just kind

9 of reviewing some of the data from historically, it's

10 highly unlikely that there would be any need to do any

11 further aquatic biota assessment in that lake.

12 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dionne

13 Filiatrault .

14 You spoke specifically within the lake. I'm more

15 trying to understand sort of the impacts down to

16 Koojjesse Inlet in the -- I'll leave it at that.

17 MR . MOGGY : I think the only comment that I

18 made at that time was probably where their discharge

19 outlet was going to be for the discharge, and I was

20 just trying to get a handle on exactly where that was

21 going to be in relation to what we might consider fish

22 habitat. And I think the City did provide that at some

23 point there, so we were satisfied with what they

24 provided to us.

25 MS. FILIATRAULT : Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

26 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would propose that the

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3 DFO POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, HARD COPY

4 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Derek.

5 Okay. We'll take a supper break. We'll take a

6 break now for supper, but once we come back at 7:00

7 tonight we'll deal with the presentation from GN and

8 other interested parties. So we'll come back here 7:00

9 tonight. Thank you.

10 Okay, we'll deal with the community meeting

11 tonight. We will deal with GN tomorrow morning

12 instead, thank you.

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3 CITY OF IQALUIT WATER LICENSE APPLICATION, MARCH

4 2006, POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, HARD COPY.......26

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6 CITY OF IQALUIT WATER BOARD PRESENTATIONS, MARCH

7 2006, ELECTRONIC COPY..........................27

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9 MEMORANDUM DATED 3 MARCH 2006 REGARDING CITY OF

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12 IQALUIT WATER LICENSE, INAC SUBMISSION

13 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION - HARD COPY............64

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15 INAC POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, ELECTRONIC COPY..64

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