Well Water Data

Description:

This data resource provides well water log information for the Municipality of Waterloo, Wellington, and Brant County. This data was received in ASCII text format, from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment in November, 2003. Wellington County data was received in May, 2004. The data includes the following well information:

Well Water log information for the Municipality of Waterloo
Location (point file)	Casing Material	Drill Method
Date Constructed	Test Method	Screen Length
Depth of Water	Pump Rate	Screen Depth
Kind of Water	Pump Duration	Depth of Well
Casing Diameter	Pump Level	Inground Material Type
Casing Depth	Flow Rate of flowing well	Inground Material Colour

Spatial Reference and Data Type:

This data is available in UTM co-ordinates; horizontal datum is NAD83. The data is provided as an ascii data file (i.e. text file) and can be imported into a text or database program of your choice. GIS software can be used to view the well water point layers.

Data Access:

In order to access this data, please visit the Geospatial Centre Reference Desk between the hours of 9:30am-4:30pm, Monday to Friday, in the Dana Porter Library. Library reference staff are available to provide further information about these data sets and to deliver data upon request. Under the terms of the Library's license agreement, these data sets are for use by students, faculty, and staff at the University of Waterloo only.

Data Manipulation:

There are public workstations in the Geospatial Centre that provide access to GIS software, program extensions and data manipulation utilities. Patrons may use the GIS software in the library to view and manipulate the data. UW faculty, students and staff may copy these data to other media (Zip disk or CD-R) for use elsewhere.

Data Output:

These data may be exported from the GIS software as a bitmapped image (e.g., jpg) or may be printed as a map view using one of the library's colour printers.

Use Restrictions/Licensing/Copyright:

This material is provided for academic, research, teaching, and personal use only. A data release agreement must be signed before the data is delivered.

Citation:

Regional Municipality of Waterloo Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Enviornment, [2003].

Brant County Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Enviornment, [2003].

Wellington County Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Enviornment, [2003].

Sample View of the Data:

Well Water Data Waterloo

, Library Assistant
June 6, 2012

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