Arctic SDI catalogue
Surface Water Quality, Oil Sands Region
The surface water quality (WQ) program, as part of the Joint Canada/Alberta Implementation Plan, is designed to improve the ability to detect change and predict effects in relation to point and non‐point sources. A mass‐balance approach has been used for assessing the quantity, movement, and cycling of materials in the watershed. Applying this approach required a sampling program which included quantification of the sources, transport, flux, and fate of materials and contaminants. The Surface WQ monitoring sampling includes, in part, collection of;
- event (freshet and rain) based WQ samples in tributaries ranging from daily to bi-weekly,
- WQ samples in the Athabasca River using cross-channel transect methods at specified Phase 1 sites,
- enhanced (additional parameters) WQ sampling at M9, M12, and M11A and at 5 new interconnecting channel stations within the Expanded Geographical Area (EGA),
- ground water samples in specific high priority tributaries, and
- auto-monitoring (near real-time) on a subset of parameters at sites in the EGA
Simple
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2014-08-28
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2014-01-01
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- annually; annuel RI_539
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- water quality, long term monitoring, oil sands, Athabasca River, metals, major ions, nutrients, organics, physical and chemical, polycyclic aromatic compounds, mercury, naphthenic acids, watershed, contaminants, point source, non-point source, freshet, rain, under ice Peace-Athabasca Delta, Peace River, Slave River, concentrations, mainstem, tributary, expanded geographic area, passive sampling, event-based sampling, groundwater, contaminant source attribution
- theme.EC_Information_Category.rdf theme.EC_Information_Category.rdf ( RI_528 )
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- Water - Quality
- theme.EC_Content_Scope.rdf theme.EC_Content_Scope.rdf ( RI_528 )
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- Observation/Measurement
- theme.EC_Waf.rdf theme.EC_Waf.rdf ( RI_528 )
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- Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste
- Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
- local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope ( RI_525 )
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- Prairie - Alberta (AB)
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Oil sands
- Water quality
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Spatial representation type
- vector; vecteur RI_635
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 1989-04-01
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- Supplemental Information
- This data set includes historic data from the longterm monitoring program funded jointly by Parks Canada, Environment Canada and NWT. An interpretative report of water quality status and trends between 1989-2006 (Glozier etl al., 2009) is available from nancy.glozier@canada.ca
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /
819-994-1412
http://ec.gc.ca
- OnLine resource
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Surface Water Quality Data (English)
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Dataset;CSV;eng
- OnLine resource
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Surface Water Quality Data (French)
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Dataset;CSV;fra
- OnLine resource
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Surface Water Quality
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng
- OnLine resource
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Surface Water Quality
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;fra
- OnLine resource
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Surface Water Quality
(
OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;eng
- OnLine resource
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Surface Water Quality
(
OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;fra
- OnLine resource
-
View ECCC Data Mart (English)
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Web Service;HTML;eng
- OnLine resource
-
View ECCC Data Mart (French)
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Web Service;HTML;fra
- File identifier
- 048be9da-d9ea-48d3-b9b3-9dda4849a5d8 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- series; série RI_623
- Date stamp
- 2022-05-20T18:54:46
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
819-994-1412
http://ec.gc.ca
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