[CivicAccess-discuss] access to water quality measurements

[Jane Stewart]

Environment Canada's Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators 
(CESI) program publishes indicators for water quality in downloadable 
formats, and also supports the ability to access the data through 
interactive maps.

http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/

Water quality maps and charts:
http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=7084AEB5-1#mapsandchartsewater

I'm an information management consultant, not a user of this data, so 
others would be better qualified to speak to its usefulness.

Apologies if this was already on the radar.

Jane Stewart


> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:59:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jennifer Bell <jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] access to water quality
> 	measurements
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> Further to my last email on access to water quality measurements in Canada (sorry for two emails in one day):
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> There's a cross-government initiative with BC & Yukon co-operating w/ Environment Canada on water quality assesments where data is availabile for download:   http://www.waterquality.ec.gc.ca/EN/navigation/search.htm
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> This looks to be a focused initiative for just these areas.
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> The best municipal water records, in terms of data accessability, that I've found so far are in Ontario.  However, reports are posted as PDFs.
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> For example, you can see here that Kitchener seems to have had some minor issues with water chlorination: http://www.ontario.ca/ONT/portal51/drinkingwater/DWPPlant?DWPQualityAction=displayPlant&plant=260001458&lang=en
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> Alberta, incidently, posts 'Everything is OK!' summaries:
> http://environment.alberta.ca/apps/RegulatedDWQ/Detail.aspx?id=138867
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> & lets you search historical binary e. coli assesments (either 'present' or 'absent').
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> http://environment.alberta.ca/apps/RegulatedDWQ/Results.aspx?monreqvarid=4836&sDate=4/13/2009&eDate=7/13/2009&id=138867
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> This seems to have only limited usefulness.
>
> Jennifer
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