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Review of the Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of Marine Pollution in...
This report attempts to provide a preliminary review of the some of the possible impacts, monitoring, and mitigation measures for many of the pollution issues including sewage and waste disposal, mining and smelter activities, various large industrial... -
Reconnaissance Inventory of Aconitum Lake
This report contains information about Aconitum Lake habitat quality. The data presented in this document includes information regarding aquatic vegetation, terrain features, physical and chemical water characteristics, pollution, fish habitation, and fish... -
Proctor Creek Groundwater Channel Coho Assessment
A groundwater study was conducted from May 15, 2007 to August 07, 2007 on a small groundwater channel (GWC) located on private property near Proctor Road just east of Smithers, B C. For the purpose of this report, this groundwater channel is referred to as... -
Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Plan
The Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area ( PNCIMA ) is one of five national Large Ocean Management Areas identified in Canada’s 2005 Oceans Action Plan. The plan outlines a framework for ecosystem-based management (EBM) for PNCIMA that includes... -
Pacific Coastal Basin Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Data
Long-term freshwater quality monitoring data for over 10 sites in the Pacific Coastal Basin for the past 15 years or longer for nutrients, metals, major ions, and other physical-chemical variables are included in this dataset. Monitoring is conducted by... -
Marine Environmental Effects Monitoring Program: Design and Evaluation for Pa...
This report provides a review of the Environmental Effects Monitoring Program (EEMP) at ten BC coastal pulp mills and evaluates the ability of current and past EEMPs at these ten locations to generate data suitable for detecting long-term trends. -
Interim Assessment Protocol for Aquatic Ecosystems in British Columbia: Stand...
The Aquatic Ecosystems assessment protocol currently describes the derivation of a core set of watershed indicators that can be calculated consistently across the province using GIS data layers readily available from GeoBC or other ministry providers. The... -
Ground Water Wells Database & Map
Point features showing the location of groundwater wells in BC joined with attributes and information from the WELLS database. -
Daily Streamflow and Water Temperature Simulation: Case Study of Pacific Coas...
The objective of the project is to present how the GEM, GEM-Surf, WATROUTE and RBM models were set up and coupled over the watersheds flowing into Hecate Strait and discuss preliminary results obtained for the period of October 2013– July 2015. The... -
Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN)
The Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) is an aquatic biomonitoring program for assessing the health of fresh water ecosystems in Canada. Benthic macroinvertebrates are collected at a site location and their counts are used as an indicator of the... -
BC Water Resources Atlas
The Water Resources Atlas is an iMapBC application with enhanced query functionality to enable the display of detailed water related data, including watersheds, water quantity and quality monitoring sites, aquifers, water wells and flood protection works. -
BC Points of Diversion with Water Licence Information
Province-wide SDE spatial layer displaying water licence points of diversion joined with licence information. This layer contains a record for each water licence on each Point of Diversion that exists in the province (each Point of Diversion can have... -
AQUARIUS WebPortal
Portal accessing real-time water-related data, including dataset download, mapping, and creation of charts. Parameters include snow surveys, surface water discharge, groundwater levels, water temperature, air temperature, precipitation, etc. -
A Revised Predictive Model for Bioassessment of Streams in Northwest British ...
A revised predictive model for bioassessment of streams in northwest British Columbia using the reference condition approach: Skeena model. This document describes the Skeena Model, developed for stream bioassessment in northwest BC using the reference... -
A Handbook for Water Champions: First Edition
Fresh water shapes British Columbia’s landscapes, communities and economies. But this most precious natural resource faces an increasingly uncertain future: with shifting climate and hydrology, and intense cumulative pressures, British Columbia is entering...