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Jennifer Bell on
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Further to my last email on access to water quality measurements in Canada (sorry for two emails in one day):
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.htmThis looks to be a focused initiative for just these areas.
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.
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=enAlberta, incidently, posts 'Everything is OK!' summaries:
http://environment.alberta.ca/apps/RegulatedDWQ/Detail.aspx?id=138867& lets you search historical binary e. coli assesments (either 'present' or 'absent').
http://environment.alberta.ca/apps/RegulatedDWQ/Results.aspx?monreqvarid=4836&sDate=4/13/2009&eDate=7/13/2009&id=138867This seems to have only limited usefulness.
Jennifer
--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Jennifer Bell <
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> From: Jennifer Bell <
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> Subject: access to water quality measurements
> To:
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> Received: Monday, July 13, 2009, 11:36 AM
> I was doing a speedy tour of water
> quality information available in different countries, and
> thought I'd share what I've seen so far.
>
> I knew the US Geological Survey was publishing river flow
> volumes (as used in the riverdex site that Daniel mentioned
> last year --
http://riverdex.r08.railsrumble.com/). But
> I just noticed the Geological Survey also publish real time
> water quality feeds:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/qw , which has things
> like p.h.
>
> Also, tantalizingly, it seems you can get municipal water
> quality data direct from the E.P.A. here:
http://www.epa.gov/storet/index.html (I think, haven't
> tested it).
>
> Curiously, Victoria, Australia, has regular e. coli level
> reporting in PDF's:
>
http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/water/yarrawatch/historical_data.asp>
> Anyone know of any good resources for water quality
> monitoring in Canada, or elsewhere? I was putting together a
> project proposal for a Cdn think tank to benchmark
> availability of water safety information.
>
> Jennifer Bell
>
>
>
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