TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Highlights for 2002 ill 



1.0 Introduction 1 



2.0 Committee Activities 2 



2.1 Membership 2 



2.2 Meetings 2 



2.3 Review of Water-Quality Objectives 3 



2.4 Data Exchange 4 



3.0 Water and Air: Monitoring and Interpretations 6 



3.1 Poplar River Power Station Operation 6 



3.2 Surface Water 6 



3.2.1 Streamflow 6 



3.2.2 Apportionment 7 



3.2.3 Minimum Flows 7 



3.2.4 On-Demand Release 8 



3.2.5 Surface- Water Quality 9 



3.2.5.1 Total Dissolved Solids 10 



3.2.5.2 Boron 14 



3.2.5.3 Other Water-Quality Variables 17 



33 Ground Water .' 19 



3.3.1 Operations 19 



3.3.2 Ground- Water Monitoring 21 



3.3.2.1 Saskatchewan 21 



3.3.2.2 Montana 25 



3.3.3 Ground- Water Quality 27 



3.3.3.1 Saskatchewan 27 



3.3.3.2 Montana 31 



3.4 Cookson Reservoir 32 



3.4.1 Storage 32 



3.4.2 Water Quality 34 



3.5 Air Quality ' 34 



3.6 Quality Control 34 



3.6.1 Streamflow 34 



3.6.2 Water Quality 35 



ANNEXES 



1 .0 Poplar River Cooperative Monitoring Arrangement. Canada-United States A 1 



2.0 Poplar River Cooperative Monitoring Arrangement, Technical 



Monitoring Schedules. 2002, Canada-United States A2 



3.0 Recommended Flow Apportionment in the Poplar River Basin A3 



4.0 Conversion Factors A4 



