Deep Geological Repository Environmental Program
Project Overview
Location: Ignace, ON
Client: Nuclear Waste Management Organization
Service: Environmental
Sector: Energy
Project Description
TULLOCH has supported the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s environmental work in the Ignace area through a series of studies, assessments, and monitoring programs dating from 2016 to the present. The work has helped establish existing environmental conditions, identify potential constraints, and provide baseline information for site characterization, access planning, borehole selection, permitting, and environmental assessments.
Across a study area exceeding 780 km², TULLOCH has combined desktop review, GIS analysis, field investigations, sampling, habitat assessment, modelling, and long-term monitoring. Our team has also worked closely with the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation to incorporate culturally informed knowledge into environmental data collection and field validation.
Scope of Services
- Review and GIS mapping of more than 100 federal, provincial, and industry datasets
- Desktop assessments of natural heritage, aquatic, terrestrial, and land use conditions
- Environmental constraint mapping across potential withdrawal and siting areas
- Surface water quality, sediment, soil, and water-level monitoring
- Community water quality testing
- Blackwater Creek baseline assessment
- Fish usability assessments and fish community studies
- Fish tissue sampling and monitoring
- Fish stocking program planning and monitoring
- Species at Risk surveys, including eastern whip-poor-will investigations
- Amphibian habitat assessments
- Rare plant and vegetation community surveys
- Terrestrial ecosystem mapping and wildlife habitat modelling
- Wildlife inventories, habitat assessments, and field validation
- Field reconnaissance of water crossings, access routes, and potential activity areas
- Assessment of potential environmental impacts related to site characterization activities
- Avoidance, management, and mitigation recommendations
- Annual baseline reports, field trip reports, technical memoranda, and fisheries usability reports
