March 2013 Bathymetric Survey of the Black Point Dredged Material Disposal Site, Saint John Harbour, NB

Each year in Canada between two and four million tonnes of materials are disposed of at marine disposal sites. The majority of these materials is dredged sediment from estuarine or marine locations. Under the authority provided by the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999, Environment Canada regulates the use of marine disposal sites and monitors environmental conditions at representative sites. Monitoring assesses on-site and off-site environmental effects such as changes to seabed morphology, environmental quality, habitat alteration and cumulative effects. In March 2013, as part of its Disposal Site Monitoring Program, Environment Canada contracted Public Works and Government Services Canada to conduct a bathymetric survey of the Black Point Dredged Material Disposal Site. The disposal site is located in the outer waters of Saint John Harbour, NB and over a period of several decades has received dredged materials from various locations in the harbour. The survey covered a trapezoidal area of approximately 2 square kilometers ranging in depth from 5 to 27 meters. Survey equipment used included a 200 kHz multi-beam system, inertial motion sensor, and sound velocity profiler. The multi-beam data was post-processed using hydrographic processing software. Data are available in a number of mapping formats.


Data were collected for environmental monitoring purposes and are not to be used for navigation.

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Date Stamp
2022-01-21T21:04:36
Metadata language

eng; CAN
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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 (Publication)
2013-04-25
Date (Creation)
2013-03-10
Date (Creation)
2013-03-25
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Not planned
Spatial representation type
Vector
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Adrian MacDonald ( Marine Disposal Coordinator )
Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada

Keywords

Theme

  • Dredged Material

  • Geographic Feature

  • Marine Disposal Site

  • Mapping

  • Bathymetry

  • Ocean Terrain
Place

  • Saint John Harbour, New Brunswick

  • Black Point
Temporal

  • 2013
Discipline

  • Disposal At Sea

  • Marine Pollution

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Pollution and Waste

Geography

  • Atlantic - New Brunswick (NB)

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Surveys

  • Surficial geology

  • Ocean floor

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Environmental Stewardship Branch

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Environmental Protection Operations

external.theme.EC_Program_PAA

  • 3.1.3. Marine Pollution

external.theme.GC_Security_Level

  • Unclassified
 
Use Limitation

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

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Use Constraints
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Begin Date
2013-03-10
End Date
2013-03-25

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Ref. system Reference Systems

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EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
 
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0
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No

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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

2013 Bathymetry Black Point Disposal At Sea Dredged Material Geographic Feature Mapping Marine Disposal Site Marine Pollution Ocean Terrain Saint John Harbour, New Brunswick
ECCC Information Category EN
Pollution and Waste
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Ocean floor Surficial geology Surveys
external.theme.EC_Branch
Environmental Stewardship Branch
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Environmental Protection Operations
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
3.1.3. Marine Pollution
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

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