This study of the hydraulic properties of a fractured rock mass is based on data from field injection tests and fracture measurements, and on simulations of the fracture system in the bedrock upstream from the Daniel Johnson dam at Manic 5. Analysis of water injection tests indicates that the bedrock can be divided into two zones with respect to the permeability. The more permeable zone, which is the object of this study, shows a log-normal distribution of the hydraulic conductivities.Using several stochastic simulations of fracture networks, the fracture aperture has been adjusted gradually to reproduce the rock mass permeability estimated from injection tests. The results show that the fracture system geometry, as well as the fracture porosity and the fracture lengths and densities, influences widely the hydraulic properties of a fractured medium and particularly the fracture porosity. Also, the estimation of the fracture porosity is sensitive to a number of other factors, including the assumed hydraulic boundary conditions, the field estimation of the hydraulic conductivities, and the orientation of the simulation planes. Key words: fissured media, fracture porosity, stochastic model, simulation, sensitivity analysis, dam.