Performance Indicators

• Coastal Processes
  • Annual Structure Costs
  • Area of land lost and economic value of land lost
  • Barrier Beaches and Dunes
  • Beach Access
  • Cost of the damage due to flooding of residential buildings
  • Erosion impacts for riparian property on Lake Ontario and the Upper St. Lawrence River
  • Existing riparian shoreline protection structures on Lake Ontario and the Upper St. Lawrence River
  • Flooding impacts on riparian property for Lake Ontario and the Upper St. Lawrence River
  • Number of flooded residential buildings
  • Sediment Budget
  • Theoretical number of expropriated properties
  • Total area of flooded lands quantified by land-use type
  • Total length of flooded roads quantified by road type
  • Volume of sediment eroded
  
  
• Commercial Navigation
  • Total Transportation Costs for Commercial Navigation
  
  
• Domestic, Industrial and Municipal Water Uses
  • Infrastructure
  • Taste and Odors
  
  
• Environment/Wetlands
  • Amphibian species - reproductive habitat surface area
  • Black Tern - reproductive index in emergent marshes
  • Bridle Shiner - reproductive habitat surface area
  • Eastern Sand Darter - reproductive habitat surface area
  • Golden Shiner - suitable feeding habitat surface area
  • High Vegetation, 24C fish guild - spawning habitat supply (Lake Ontario)
  • High Vegetation, 24C fish guild - spawning habitat supply (upper St. Lawrence River)
  • King Rail - preferred breeding habitat coverage
  • Least Bittern - reproductive index in emergent marshes
  • Largemouth Bass - YOY recruitment index (Lake Ontario)
  • Largemouth Bass - YOY recruitment index (Upper St. Lawrence River)
  • Low Vegetarian, 18C fish guild - spawning habitat supply (Lake Ontario)
  • Low Vegetarian, 18C fish guild - spawning habitat supply (Upper St. Lawrence River)
  • Low Vegetation, 24C fish guild - spawning habitat supply (Lake Ontario)
  • Low Vegetation, 24C fish guild - spawning habitat supply (Upper St. Lawrence River)
  • Migratory waterfowl - productivity
  • Migratory waterfowl - floodplain habitat surface area
  • Muskrat - house density in drowned rivermouth wetlands
  • Muskrat - surviving houses
  • Northern Pike - YOY net productivity
  • Northern Pike - YOY recruitment index (Lake Ontario)
  • Northern Pike - YOY recruitment index (Upper St. Lawrence River)
  • Northern Pike - suitable reproductive habitat surface area
  • Spiny Softshell Turtle and Northern Map Turtle - reproductive habitat surface area
  • Virginia Rail - reproductive index in emergent marsh
  • Wetland fish - abundance index
  • Wetland Meadow Marsh Community - surface area, supply-based
  • Yellow Rail - annual preferred breeding habitat coverage
  
  
• Hydroelectric Power
  • Ice Formation
  • Maximize Megawatt Production
  • Maximize The Value of Megawatt Production
  • Predictability of Outflows
  • Spill at Long Sault Dam
  • Stability of Outflows
  
  
• Recrational Boating/Tourism
  • Net economic value lost by recreational boaters and charter boat patrons as water level varies from ideal levels for boating