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> From: Jane Stewart <
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] access to water quality measurements
> To:
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> Received: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 10:51 PM
> 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 <
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> > Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] access to water
> quality
> > measurements
> > To:
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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.htm> >
> > This 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〈=en> >
> > Alberta, 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=138867> >
> > This seems to have only limited usefulness.
> >
> > Jennifer
> >
> >
>
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