Well water data: Brant, Waterloo, Wellington

Data access

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Description

This data resource provides well water log information for the Municipality of Waterloo, Wellington, and Brant County. This data was received in ASCII text format, from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment in November 2003. Wellington County data was received in May 2004. More recent data is available from: https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/well-records

The data includes the following well information:

  • Location
  • Date constructed
  • Depth of water
  • Kind of water
  • Casing diameter
  • Casing depth
  • Casing material
  • Test method
  • Pump rate
  • Pump duration
  • Pump level
  • Flow rate of flowing well
  • Drill method
  • Screen length
  • Screen depth
  • Depth of well
  • Inground material type
  • Inground material colour

Spatial reference and data type

This data is available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) co-ordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. The data is provided as an ASCII data file (i.e. text file) and can be imported into a text or database program of your choice. Geographic Information System (GIS) software can be used to view the well water point layers.

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.

Citation

Regional Municipality of Waterloo Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Environment, [2003].

Brant County Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Environment, [2003].

Wellington County Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Environment, [2003].

Sample view of the data

Well Water Data