Athabasca Basin: Tailing Ponds and Impacts on Aquifers

GW Solutions’ team is supporting Keepers of the Athabasca to learn more about the connection between surface water and groundwater and the water quality around tailing ponds in Northern Alberta. The team has been gathering, cleaning, standardizing and integrating groundwater and surface water quality and quantity data from different sources of information. We have interpreted the data and developed a visualization tool and digital platform detailing groundwater and surface water quality and their potential interaction. The outcome of this project could improve the knowledge of communities, industry, and the public to understand, manage, and protect water.
The two main sources of surface water quality that GW Solutions used for its study are Alberta Environment and Parks dataset and Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) database.

The funders of the project are Keepers of the Athabasca and The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation with in- kind contribution of GW Solutions team

Citation

Government of Alberta, Environment and Protected Areas; Regional Aquatic Monitoring Program (RAMP). 2022-04-30. "Athabasca Basin: Tailing Ponds and Impacts on Aquifers" (dataset). 2.0.0. DataStream. https://doi.org/10.25976/388f-h804.

Data Collection Information

The two main sources of surface water quality that GW Solutions used for its study are Alberta Environment and Parks dataset and Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP) database.
Alberta Environment and Parks, and its partners, collect surface water quality samples in rivers, lakes and other water bodies across the province. Much of the physical and chemical data from the monitoring program are stored in Water Data System (WDS), a module of the Environmental Management System (EMS). The EMS supplies data to the Environmental Data Warehouse, the source of online surface water quality data. Other datasets, such as biological data, are being added to WDS as resources allow. Further information on the RAMP program is available here: http://www.ramp-alberta.org/ramp/data.aspx

The RAMP database is a web-based environmental data management system used to store and access over 2 million records related to RAMP’s on-going monitoring of climate and hydrology, water quality, benthic invertebrate communities, sediment quality, fish populations, and lakes sensitive to acidity. The database is a key tool used by RAMP to identify and evaluate any changes to the aquatic environment in the Athabasca oil sands region and is now available to the public. Further information on Alberta Environment and Parks is available here: https://www.alberta.ca/surface-water-quality-data.aspx

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API Access

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