Surface Water Quantity, Oil Sands Region

Water level and discharge data are available from Water Survey of Canada’s Hydrometric Network. The Water Survey of Canada (WSC) is the national authority responsible for the collection, interpretation and dissemination of standardized water resource data and information in Canada. In partnership with the provinces, territories and other agencies, WSC operates over 2500 active hydrometric gauges across the country, maintains an archive of historical information for over 7600 stations and provides access to near real-time (water level and stream flow) provisional data at over 1700 locations in Canada.

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
841c62e9-aa82-4e39-8e49-5dc32340e1dc XML
Date Stamp
2025-04-01T18:31:21.152Z
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Series
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,
1-800-668-6767

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html
 

Data identification

Title

Surface Water Quantity, Oil Sands Region
Date (Publication)
2015-06-17
Date (Creation)
2015-04-09
Status
On going
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Inland waters
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Quarterly
Spatial representation type
Vector
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Al Pietroniro ( Director, Water Survey of Canada)

11 Innovation Blvd, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 3H5, Canada
306-975-4394

306-975-5143

www.wateroffice.gc.ca
Principal investigator
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Malcolm Conly ( Hydrological Operations - Prairie)

11 Innovation Blvd, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 3H5, Canada
306-975-4833

306-222-8659

Keywords

Theme

  • water level, flow, discharge, hydrometric, hydrology, water quantity, sediment, oil sands, monitoring

  • Observation/Measurement

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Water

  • Oil sands

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Water - Quantity

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

Geography

  • National (CA)

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Meteorological Service of Canada

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Weather and Environmental Monitoring

external.theme.EC_Program_PAA

  • 1.3.2. Ecosystem Assessment and Approaches

  • 1.2.3. Hydrological Service and Water Survey

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
1984-04-01

Extent

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
https://epsg.io / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( unknown)

 
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,
1-800-668-6767

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html
 
 

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Keywords

Observation/Measurement water level, flow, discharge, hydrometric, hydrology, water quantity, sediment, oil sands, monitoring
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 - Quantity
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

Oil sands Water
external.theme.EC_Branch

Meteorological Service of Canada
external.theme.EC_Directorate

Weather and Environmental Monitoring
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA

1.2.3. Hydrological Service and Water Survey 1.3.2. Ecosystem Assessment and Approaches
external.theme.GC_Security_Level

Unclassified


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