Data access
Full access to our resources is available to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Waterloo. To request access, please complete the Ask-Us form indicating the specific layers (shapefiles) you require. Upon completion of the data release agreement form, the dataset will be provided to you via OneDrive.
In-person consultations may also be requested through the Ask-Us form.
Description
This data resource provides the locations of all active and inactive waste disposal sites in Ontario. This data is based on the 1991 publication "Waste Disposal Site Inventory" published by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. More recent data is available from https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/waste-management-site
The data includes the following waste disposal site information:
- Location
- County
- Municipality
- Lot
- Concession
- Closest street intersection
- Closing year
- Closing date
- Class
Spatial reference and data type
This data is available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. These data are stored as Esri shapefiles. Other data formats can be accommodated, as the Geospatial Centre has access to a number of conversion utilities.
Use restrictions/licensing/copyright
This material is provided for academic, research, teaching, and personal use only. A data release agreement must be agreed to before the data is delivered. The Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing should be acknowledged on any derivative product, such as a map or an image.
Citation
Waste Disposal Site Inventory [computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Environment, [1991].
Sample view of the data
