Aquatic Life Copper WQG Acute

Aquatic Life Copper WQG Acute is an open dataset from Government of British Columbia with 2 files (CSV, HTML); catalogue record updated 2026-04-17. On CanQuery you can open its CSV or Excel file as a table, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads.

The B.C. copper water quality guideline (WQG) for the protection of aquatic life was updated in 2019 and now uses a biotic ligand model (BLM) to account for site specific toxicity modifying factors such as pH, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and hardness. The B.C. copper BLM software, available on the B.C. WQG website can be used to calculate the copper WQG if site specific concentrations of the toxicity modifying factors are known. This dataset provides acute WQGs for various concentrations of pH, DOC and hardness that can be used to look-up WQGs without needing to run the BLM software.

Publisher

Government of British Columbia

Resources

2

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-04-17