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Title Connecting Channels Long Term Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance
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URL 10-25976-zspc-hq93
Description Water quality monitoring in the connecting channels of the Great Lakes is part of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s commitment to the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) under the auspices of the International Joint Commission (IJC, 1989) to evaluate the effectiveness of pollution control programs carried out in the Great Lakes Basin. Water quality monitoring in the Connecting Channels began with the establishment of a fixed sampling site on the Niagara River at Niagara-on-the-Lake (NOTL) in 1975 and, over the next decade, additional sites were added on the St. Lawrence River at Wolfe Island in 1976 and upstream on the Niagara River at Fort Erie (FE) in 1983. Monitoring in the St. Clair River began at two locations, Port Lambton and Point Edward, in 1987.
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Keywords ['Water quality', 'Nutrients', 'Organics', 'Metals', 'Niagara River', 'St. Clair River', 'St. Lawrence River', 'Wolfe Island']
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Ocean Variables
  • Nutrients
  • Other
Climate Variables Nutrients
Citation https://doi.org/10.25976/zspc-hq93
License OGL-CAN-2.0
Scope Dataset
Status On Going
Associated Datasets
Metadata Dates
Metadata Date 1
Date
2023-03-31
Type
Creation
Metadata Date 2
Date
2023-03-31
Type
Revision
Resource Dates
Resource Date 1
Date
2021-07-12
Type
Publication
Resource Date 2
Date
2023-03-31
Type
Revision
Maintenance and update frequency As Needed
Maintenance Note
Point of Contact
Point of Contact 1
Email
WQMSINFO@ec.gc.ca
Role
Point of Contact
Responsible Party
Responsible Party 1
Affiliation
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) / Environnement et Changement climatique Canada (ECCC)
Role
  • Author
  • Contributor
Distributor
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North Bounding Latitude 44.207747
South Bounding Latitude 42.6589
East Bounding Longitude -76.236759
West Bounding Longitude -82.5068
Temporal Extent
Begin
1975-05-14
End
2023-01-12
Vertical Extent
Default Locale English
Citation identifier
Code
https://doi.org/10.25976/zspc-hq93
Lineage
XML Metadata File Location https://datastream.org/dataset/6c3ec87b-932d-4d19-becb-380dbfa3b645/iso19115.xml
External Harvest Document Content
Organization 6196be5f-36c3-4f36-bac1-15d1c478d427
Version
Initial dataset map max zoom level
Projects
    Data Centre
      Included in Data Catalogue
      Included in Data Catalogue 1
      Name
      DataStream
      Description
      DataStream is an open access platform for water quality data
      URL
      https://datastream.org
      Included in Data Catalogue 2
      Name
      CIOOS Pacific
      Description
      Home of Canada's Pacific Ocean Data
      URL
      https://catalogue.pac-dev1.cioos.org