| Title | Use of provincial data by conservation authorities |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Post, R; Campbell, J |
| Source | Regional-scale groundwater geoscience in southern Ontario: an Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario geoscientists open house; by Russell, H A J ; Ford, D; Priebe, E H; Holysh, S; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8363,
2018 p. 33, https://doi.org/10.4095/306567  Open
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| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Meeting | Regional-Scale Groundwater Geoscience in Southern Ontario: Open House; Guelph; CA; February 28 - March 1, 2018 |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Regional-scale groundwater
geoscience in southern Ontario: an Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario geoscientists open house |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Ontario |
| NTS | 30; 31B; 31C; 31D; 31E; 31G; 40; 41A; 41G; 41H/03; 41H/04; 41H/05; 41H/06; 41H/12; 41H/13 |
| Area | Southern Ontario; Eastern Ontario; Great Lakes |
| Lat/Long WENS | -84.0000 -74.0000 46.0000 41.5000 |
| Subjects | hydrogeology; surficial geology/geomorphology; regional geology; environmental geology; geophysics; groundwater; aquifers; groundwater resources; resource management; watersheds; regional planning; land
use; modelling; buried valleys; channels; geochemical anomalies; hydraulic analyses; pollutants; water quality; monitoring; Drought; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary; Paleozoic |
| Program | Groundwater Geoscience Aquifer Assessment & support to mapping |
| Released | 2018 02 16 |
| Abstract | Conservation Authorities are local level, water resource management organizations; jurisdictionally defined on the watershed-scale. Both local and regional land use decision making process should be
informed by a robust understanding of the geological framework and hydrogeological regime. This requires considerable multi-disciplinary expertise, funding, and an on going involvement by local stakeholders. For our respective conservation
authorities, and by extension our municipal partners, the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS) has been the catalyst for local efforts to address data gaps to inform better land use decisions. The use of preliminary data generated from the OGS 3D
Geological Model projects in the Niagara Peninsula and Central and South Simcoe areas have addressed information and knowledge gaps including but not limited to: lack of meaningful regional geologic cross-sections; extent and definition of aquifers;
buried bedrock channel morphologies; distribution, thickness and composition of aquitards; refinement of Highly Vulnerable Aquifers, and geochemical anomaly characterization. This has been completed through improved hydrogeologic characterization via
additional golden spike monitoring locations and baseline monitoring (hydraulic and geochemical), geophysical delineation, and associated modelling.
Early advantages of local utilization of the OGS project results have included the use of
geological refinement in the development of an integrated MikeSHE model for drought management; information for rural development approvals and municipal groundwater exploration studies, collaboration on emerging chemicals of concern, and spatially
improved groundwater monitoring. Importantly, the OGS results are also addressing items needed for source water protection planning but unavailable for source water protection funding: (i) research to address local data gaps and (ii) long-term water
quality monitoring programs. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Proceedings for a workshop in Guelph Ontario as part of the program S&T exchange. Abstracts have been contributed by Ontario Geological Survey, Ministry
of Environment and Climate Change, Conservation Authorities, Universities, private sector, and Unites States Geological Survey. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 306567 |
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