| Titre | The Ambient Groundwater Geochemistry Program: pilot project in northern Ontario Precambrian aquifers |
| Télécharger | Téléchargement (publication entière) |
| Auteur | Dell, K M; Hamilton, S M |
| Source | Regional-scale groundwater geoscience in southern Ontario: an Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario geoscientists open house; par Russell, H A J; Ford, D;
Priebe, E H; Holysh, S; Commission géologique du Canada, Dossier public 8363, 2018 p. 14, https://doi.org/10.4095/306495 (Accès ouvert) |
| Année | 2018 |
| Éditeur | Ressources naturelles Canada |
| Réunion | Regional-Scale Groundwater Geoscience in Southern Ontario: Open House; Guelph; CA; février 28 - mars 1, 2018 |
| Document | dossier public |
| Lang. | anglais |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.4095/306495 |
| Media | en ligne; numérique |
| Référence reliée | Cette publication est contenue dans Russell, H A
J; Ford, D; Priebe, E H; Holysh, S; (2018). Regional-scale groundwater geoscience in southern Ontario: an Ontario Geological Survey, Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario geoscientists open house, Commission géologique du Canada,
Dossier public 8363 |
| Formats | pdf |
| Province | Ontario |
| SNRC | 41G/09; 41G/13; 41G/14; 41G/15; 41G/16; 41H/10; 41H/11; 41H/12; 41H/13; 41H/14; 41H/15; 41I/02; 41I/03; 41I/04; 41I/05; 41I/06; 41I/07; 41I/10; 41I/11; 41I/12; 41I/13; 41I/14; 41I/15; 41J; 41K/01; 41K/08;
41K/09; 41K/16 |
| Lat/Long OENS | -84.5000 -80.5000 47.0000 45.5000 |
| Sujets | eau souterraine; ressources en eau souterraine; géochimie des eaux souterraines; aquifères; roches hôtes; géologie du substratum rocheux; lithologie; radioactivité; radon; échantillons de sondage; qualité
de l'eau; géochimie de l'uranium; géochimie du cadmium; géochimie du calcium; géochimie du potassium; géochimie du cobalt; géochimie du plomb; géochimie du cuivre; géochimie de l'arsenic; sediments; argiles; alcalinité; chlorure de sodium; géochimie
du chlore; géochimie du brome; contenu en chlorure; pollution de l'eau souterraine; substances polluantes; eau de gisement; Bouclier Canadien; Province de Grenville; Front de Grenville; Supergroupe Huronien; Bassin de Sudbury ; Complexe de Sudbury
Igneous ; hydrogéologie; géochimie; géologie régional; géologie des dépôts meubles/géomorphologie; géologie de l'environnement; Précambrien |
| Programme | Géoscience des eaux souterraines, Aquifer Assessment & support to mapping |
| Diffusé | 2018 02 16 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
The first implementation of the Ambient Groundwater Geochemistry Program (AGGP) in northern Ontario was completed in 2016 in the Sudbury area. The Sudbury
program was designed to test if the AGGP could be successful in delineating the effect, on groundwater chemistry, of host rock lithology in northern Precambrian shield aquifers as has been already demonstrated for Paleozoic aquifers of southern
Ontario. A second objective of this project was to test the potential for the routine sampling of radiological and radiochemical parameters, including radon and gross alpha-particle and gross beta-particle activity concentrations. Since 2016, the
focus of the project has been analyzing the data from the Sudbury area survey and completing a 2017 follow-up project along the north shore of Lake Huron, including Manitoulin Island. In total, 93 overburden and 246 bedrock wells were sampled. This
poster illustrates the regional trends and groundwater characteristics observed in the AGGP northern Ontario data thus far.
In general, the data indicate fewer water quality related exceedences in the Sudbury area than were observed in southern
Ontario. However, a few elements increase in concentration in the Precambrian aquifers of the Sudbury area such as U and Cd. Regional variation in groundwater chemistry was observed and may be controlled by the Precambrian geologic provinces. Bedrock
well data from the Grenville Province indicate higher Ca, K and U concentrations than samples north of the Grenville Front. Samples from rocks of the Huronian Supergroup and the Sudbury Basin show relatively high Co, As, Pb and Cu concentrations
compared to the Grenville Province. Radioactivity parameters appear to be controlled by the presence of clay rich overburden units rather than bedrock geology.
The samples taken from wells that penetrate clay overburden are more alkaline because
these older, deeper waters are disconnected from lower pH surface waters. Groundwater samples indicating a road salt NaCl source, as indicated by Cl-Br ratios, have the highest average dissolved oxygen percentage and total coliform relative frequency
suggesting interaction with the surface. Some high chloride waters were noted on Manitoulin Island related to connate water in Paleozoic rocks. Future work on Precambrian aquifers will seek to determine if regional geochemical signatures are
controlled by lithology, traces of deep formational waters, anthropogenic influences, or smaller scale regional geologic features such as the Sudbury Igneous Complex and associated mineralization. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 306495 |
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