WATER QUALITY MONITORING AND DATA ACCESS

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WATER QUALITY MONITORING AND DATA ACCESS
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Science and Technology Branch
Andrea Ryan December 15, 2006
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• About 50 long-term monitoring
• stations in BC YT
• Sampled routinely trends
• Range of variables - nutrients,
• major ions, trace metals,
• bacteriology
• Okanagan Region
• Okanagan River at Oliver
• Similkameen River (Princeton

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Data Uses

• Long-term changes in water quality
• State of Water Quality reporting
• Setting WQ guidelines and objectives
• Detecting/tracking emerging issues
• Environmental Assessments
• Problem - Data Access
• Solution CISE Pilot Project

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