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Environmental Compliance Reports
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Every year, the Ministry of the Environment Conservation and Parks publicly releases the Environmental Compliance Report on the Ontario Data Catalogue. In Ontario, all...Resource formats:
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Inland Waters Lakes and Streams – Biological Communities
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This dataset includes information on biological communities in lakes and streams across Ontario since 1976. Biological communities sampled include: crayfish Data were...Resource formats:
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Industrial Wastewater Discharges
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Industrial wastewater monitoring data submitted quarterly to the Ministry of the Environment. This reporting is required by the Effluent Monitoring and Effluent Limits...Resource formats:
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Inland Lakes and Streams – Physical Conditions
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Data on physical conditions in Ontario’s lakes and streams: For lakes this includes measurements such as temperature, dissolved oxygen levels and water transparency, ice dates,...Resource formats:
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Lake St Clair Water Quality
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This dataset provides water quality analyses of lake surface samples and river samples collected throughout the ice-free season (May/June to October) from 2016 to 2019 from the...Resource formats:
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Ontario Lake Partner
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Get data about the water quality for Ontario's inland lakes. The data is collected through volunteer monitoring efforts – citizen science. The Lake Partner environment map...Resource formats:
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Ontario water and weather monitoring stations
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
Point locations of water and weather monitoring stations used by the Surface Water Monitoring Centre to assess flood and drought conditions across Ontario. Monitoring station...Resource formats:
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Provincial (Stream) Water Quality Monitoring Network
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Provides stream water quality monitoring data for a number of parameters, including total and dissolved nutrients, metals, and chloride. The Provincial (Stream) Water Quality...Resource formats:
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Air Quality in Ontario 2015
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Air Quality in Ontario Report summarizes the state of ambient air quality in 2015 and 10 year trends for key airborne pollutants affecting Ontario's air quality.Resource formats:
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Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network (PGMN) datasets report on ambient (baseline) groundwater level and chemistry conditions. Groundwater monitoring mapResource formats:
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Fish Contaminants
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Data on fish contaminants is collected across Ontario. Contaminants are chemicals that could be harmful to environment and human health. Toxic contaminants can enter in...Resource formats:
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Water quantity vulnerability indicators
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
The data set estimates the vulnerability index for the Water Survey of Canada’s HYDAT gauges in the Southwestern Hudson Bay and the Nelson River watershed systems in Ontario....Resource formats:
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Inland Lakes and Streams – Water Chemistry
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This data set includes information on water quality of lakes and streams across Ontario since 1976. It includes: major anions and cations nutrients chlorophyll metals Data...Resource formats:
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Lake Water Quality at Drinking Water Intakes
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This data set includes information on sampling locations, water chemistry and chlorophyll collected at 18 locations in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River and 4 locations in Lake...Resource formats:
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Ontario Watershed Boundaries
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
This collection represents the authoritative watershed boundaries for Ontario. The data is based on a framework similar to the Atlas of Canada Fundamental Drainage Areas and the...Resource formats:
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Multi-Watershed Nutrient Study
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Multi-Watershed Nutrient Study collected stream water samples from 11 small agricultural watersheds between 2014 and 2020. Samples were collected during flow events like...Resource formats:
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Broadscale Monitoring Program Lake Water Chemistry
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
In 2005, the Province of Ontario implemented its Ecological Framework for Recreational Fisheries Management, a component of which was the establishment of standardized,...Resource formats:
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Runoff coefficient for southwestern Hudson Bay and Nelson River watershed system
Ministry: Natural Resources and Forestry
The data set represents the annual and monthly (July, August and September) runoff coefficient for each of the Water Survey of Canada’s HYDAT stream gauges of the Southwestern...Resource formats:
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Lake Ontario Downstream Tributary Water Chemistry Monitoring
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
From 2018 to 2023, ministry staff collected water quality samples year-round from seven rivers that flow into Lake Ontario in the Greater Toronto Area. They did this to...Resource formats:
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Jackfish Bay Area of Concern in Recovery – Water and Sediment Chemistry
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
In 2017, the Ministry of Environment, Conservation, and Parks collected water and sediment from the Jackfish Bay ‘Area of Concern in Recovery’ study area, which included...Resource formats:
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