Waters Protection Ordinance
(WPO)

There is ser­i­ous harm to in­di­gen­ous flora and fauna and to their hab­it­ats due to hy­dropeak­ing where:

a.

the flow rate for up­surge is at least 1.5 times great­er than for down­surge; and

b.

the site-spe­cif­ic quant­ity, com­pos­i­tion and di­versity of the plant and an­im­al com­munit­ies are changed to their det­ri­ment, in par­tic­u­lar be­cause reg­u­larly and in an un­nat­ur­al man­ner fish are run ashore, fish spawn­ing grounds are des­troyed, aquat­ic an­im­als are washed away, tur­bid­ity arises or the wa­ter tem­per­at­ure is altered in an un­law­ful man­ner.