The Saline Water Diffuser involves a discharge of saline effluent from the Meliadine Mine to the marine environment at Melvin Bay near Rankin Inlet. Based on the predicted fl ows of groundwater into the underground workings, we have found that additions to our short and long-term groundwater strategy are required. Therefore, we will be installing a storage tank and building a pipe as well as a diffuser during the summer of 2019 in order to discharge treated underground water into Melvin Bay. Some of the groundwater from the Mine will be treated and discharged to Meliadine Lake, but there is too much groundwater for Meliadine Lake alone. This is why we need to discharge water into Melvin Bay.