Well water data: Brant, Waterloo, Wellington

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.

Data access

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.

Data manipulation

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.

Data output

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.

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 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].

Sample view of the data

map shows well depth and location in the Bridge street and Lexington road area of Kitchener