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

To request this data, please fill out the Ask-Us form and include which layers (shapefiles) you are interested in obtaining. The dataset will be shared with you via OneDrive upon completion of the data release agreement form. You may also make an in-person appointment using the same form.

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.