Aquifer Vulnerability, Groundwater Geoscience Program

Aquifer Vulnerability, Groundwater Geoscience Program is an open dataset from Natural Resources Canada with 6 files (HTML, PDF, WMS); catalogue record updated 2020-05-05. On CanQuery you can follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

A measure of the intrinsic susceptibility of an aquifer representing the tendency or likelihood for contaminants to reach a specified position in the groundwater system after introduction at some location above the uppermost aquifer. The method used to create the dataset is described in the metadata associated with the dataset. The dataset is a general assessment of the vulnerability of the hydrogeological unit considered as a whole. It features the local and regional qualifiers in a controlled vocabulary list referring to the extent where the vulnerability value is valid. Because the vulnerability is assessed using contextual indices linked to the regional hydrogeological settings, it is very unlikely to have an homogeneous range of data throughout the various hydrogeologic units across the country for this dataset. Hence, the vulnerability dataset will not qualify as an homogeneous dataset. A more generic reclassification using for examples three vulnerability classes could then be used to solve this problem. Each sub layers used to create the global vulnerability index can be provided along with the final vulnerability index map.

Publisher

Natural Resources Canada

Resources

6

Catalogue metadata updated

2020-05-05