BC Environmental Monitoring System Results

Environmental test results, including physical, chemical and biological analyses of samples taken from water, air, solid waste discharges and ambient monitoring sites throughout the province. Samples are collected by either ministry staff or permittees under the Environmental Management Act and then analyzed in public or private sector laboratories. Code information Support Tables are available on the EMS [website](https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content?id=90A61A67831A4D108859FF77E74C2D4A). The environmental monitoring locations are available in this [geographic dataset](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/634ee4e0-c8f7-4971-b4de-12901b0b4be6). You can view EMS data from surface water monitoring sites located throughout the province [here](https://governmentofbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0ecd608e27ec45cd923bdcfeefba00a7)

Date ( RI_367 ): 2016-05-04

Date ( RI_366 ): 2016-04-26

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Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

Status: onGoing; enContinue RI_596

Maintenance and update frequency: irregular; irrégulier RI_541

Keywords ( RI_528 )

Dichotomous
Dustfall
EMS
Fine Particulates
Hi-Vol
PM02
PM10
PM2.5
PM25
Particulate
partisol
water quality

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )

Government information

Use limitation: Open Government Licence - British Columbia (https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/open-data/open-government-licence-bc)

Access constraints: license; licence RI_606

Use constraints: license; licence RI_606

Spatial representation type: textTable; texteTable RI_637

Metadata language: eng; CAN

Metadata language: fra; CAN

Topic category

Environment

Begin date: 0001-01-01

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Reference system identifier: EPSG / EPSG:4326 / unknown

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RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

OnLine resource: ems_sample_results_historic_expanded.csv ( HTTPS )
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OnLine resource: ems_sample_results_current.csv ( HTTPS )
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OnLine resource: ems_sample_results_historic.csv ( HTTPS )
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OnLine resource: ems_sample_results_current_expanded.csv ( HTTPS )
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OnLine resource: csv ( HTTPS )
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OnLine resource: ems_sample_results_4yr_current_expanded.csv ( HTTPS )
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OnLine resource: ems_sample_results_expanded_all_nitrate_1109.csv ( HTTPS )
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OnLine resource: Original metadata (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca) ( HTTPS )
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File identifier: 949f2233-9612-4b06-92a9-903e817da659 XML

Metadata language: eng; CAN

Character set: utf8; utf8 RI_458

Hierarchy level: dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622

Date stamp: 2025-05-06

Metadata standard name: North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata

Metadata standard version: HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch - ( )

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