Contact the Geospatial Centre
Dana Porter Library, Room 328
University of Waterloo Library
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Email: librarygeo@library.uwaterloo.ca
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:
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.
In order to access this data, please visit the Geospatial Centre during reference hours. Library reference staff are available to provide further information about these data sets and to deliver data upon request. Under the terms of the library's license agreement, these data sets are for use by students, faculty, and staff at the University of Waterloo only.
There are public workstations in the Geospatial Centre that provide access to GIS software, program extensions and data manipulation utilities. Patrons may use the GIS software in the library to view and manipulate the data. UWaterloo faculty, students and staff may copy these data to other media (Zip disk or CD-R) for use elsewhere.
These data may be exported from the GIS software as a bitmapped image (e.g., jpg) or may be printed as a map view using one of the library's colour printers.
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.
Regional Municipality of Waterloo Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Enviornment, [2003].
Brant County Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Enviornment, [2003].
Wellington County Well Water Data[computer file]. Ottawa, Ontario: Ministry of the Enviornment, [2003].
Dana Porter Library, Room 328
University of Waterloo Library
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Email: librarygeo@library.uwaterloo.ca
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is co-ordinated within the Office of Indigenous Relations.