BC Environmental Monitoring System Data

The Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) is the ministry's primary data repository for
environmental monitoring data. The system was designed to capture data covering physical, chemical,
and biological analyses performed on water, air, soil, and waste discharges, as well as data from
ambient monitoring throughout the province.

Samples are collected by either ministry staff, permit holders under the Environmental Management
Act, or authorized third parties and are analyzed in public or private sector laboratories. If the sampling
is conducted as part of a permit requirement the sample must be analyzed at a qualified laboratory.
The majority of monitoring data is entered into EMS electronically via Electronic Data Transfer (EDT).

The dataset shared on DataStream contains the EMS ambient surface water monitoring data. The original data can also be accessed from https://cat.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-environmental-monitoring-system-results.

Citation

Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy; permit holders; authorized third parties. 2023-08-10. "BC Environmental Monitoring System Data" (dataset). 3.0.0. DataStream. https://doi.org/10.25976/yhbt-cb49.

Public Domain Dedication and Licence (ODC-PDDL) v1.0

This licence places the data in the public domain (waiving all rights). The PDDL imposes no restrictions on your use of the PDDL licenced data. You are free to share, copy, distribute, use, modify, transform, build upon, and produce works from the data. https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/

API Access

curl -G https://api.datastream.org/v1/odata/v4/Records --data-urlencode "\\$filter=DOI eq '10.25976/yhbt-cb49'" -H "x-api-key: PRIVATE-API-KEY"

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