Great Lakes Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Data

Water quality and ecosystem health data collected in the Great Lakes and priority tributaries to determine baseline water quality status, long term trends and spatial distributions, the effectiveness of management actions, determine compliance with water quality objectives and identify emerging issues are included in this dataset.

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
495eb10d-d423-432a-980f-264ef287d45b XML
Date Stamp
2022-06-29T18:28:02
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Author
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 

Data identification

Date (Creation)
2012-05-18
Date (Publication)
2015-09-08
Status
On going
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Inland waters
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Manager
Canada

Keywords

Theme

  • Water quality

  • Great Lakes

  • Trends

  • Status

  • Nutrients

  • Pesticides

  • Metals

  • Toxics

  • Chemicals Management Plan

  • Chemicals of mutual concern

  • Ecosystem

  • Transboundary

  • Major ions

  • Monitoring

  • Surveillance

  • Environment

  • Lake Huron
Product

  • Lake Ontario

  • Lake Erie

  • Lake Superior

  • Ontario

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Water - Quality

Business Functions

  • Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste

  • Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Water quality

Geography

  • Water - Drainage regions - Great Lakes

  • Water - Major drainage area - St. Lawrence

  • Water - Ocean basin - Atlantic Ocean

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Science and Technology Branch

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Water Science and Technology

external.theme.EC_Program_PAA

  • 3.1.1. Substances Management

  • 1.3.4. Great Lakes

  • 1.2.1. Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystems Health

external.theme.GC_Security_Level

  • Unclassified
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
2015-02-17

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 
 

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Keywords

Chemicals Management Plan Chemicals of mutual concern Ecosystem Environment Great Lakes Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Ontario Lake Superior Major ions Metals Monitoring Nutrients Ontario Pesticides Status Surveillance Toxics Transboundary Trends Water quality
Business Functions
Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
ECCC Information Category EN
Water - Quality
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Water quality
external.theme.EC_Branch
Science and Technology Branch
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Water Science and Technology
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
1.2.1. Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystems Health 1.3.4. Great Lakes 3.1.1. Substances Management
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

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