Water Stewardship Information Sources

Citation BC Ministry of Environment. Groundwater Observation Well Network.
Organization Ministry of Environment
URL http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wsd/data_searches/obswell/index.html
Abstract/Description or Keywords The Observation Well Network was established in 1961 and was comprised of a number of unused dug and drilled wells in the Lower Fraser Valley and the Okanagan Valley. Today, there are 145 active (as of July 2009) observation wells in the network covering major groundwater areas of the province.
The primary purpose of the Observation Well Network is to collect, analyze and interpret groundwater hydrographs1 and groundwater quality data from various developed aquifers2 in BC. Observation wells are equipped with automatic water level recorders or data loggers that monitor water level fluctuations on a continuous basis.

Some sites are monitored manually with a wetted tape by local observers. Each year about 25 observation wells are sampled for complete inorganic chemical analysis. Criteria for selecting sampling frequency of observation wells are based on physical characteristics of aquifer development, well construction and water quality trends. groundwater, monitoring, water quality, aquifer
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