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Poplar River Power Station 

 Salinity Project 



I 800 



1995 

 Yur 



1999 2000 



Figure 3.13 Pumpage from Salinity Control Project 



3.3.2 Ground-Water Monitoring 



3.3.2.1 Saskatchewan 



In 1996 nineteen new piezometers were installed in the Hart Coal Seam and a further eighteen 

 piezometers from the Frenchman aquifer testing program were added to the supplementary supply 

 monitoring network that year. With these extensive additions, no new piezometers have been added to 

 the monitoring network since that time. Currently, about 1 80 piezometers are monitored as part of this 

 project. 



Figure 3.14 shows the drawdown in the Hart Coal seam as of December 2000. There were no significant 

 changes in the magnitude and extent of drawdowns from previous years. The one metre drawdown 

 contour currently remains about two kilometres north of the hitemational Boundary. There have not 

 been significant changes in the cone of depression for the past several years, suggesting that the system 



