Environment and Protected Areas - Request for Proposal - Groundwater and Hydrometric Data Compilation and Visualization for Network Evaluation

Province has committed to improving knowledge of surface and groundwater resources and our understanding of groundwater surface water connectivity at the watershed scale, with the overarching goal of providing faster access to surface and groundwater supplies, protecting water resources from over-allocation, and providing scientifically accurate information about the availability of groundwater and surface water resources across the province. Evaluating the Province’s existing hydrometric and groundwater monitoring networks requires information about where the current users of these resources are (i.e. private, municipal, agricultural, industrial, ecosystem), information about potential stressors to these resources and relevant hydrogeological information to evaluate how the systems are connected. These network evaluations are being conducted by a team of researchers from EPA and the University of Calgary and University of Waterloo, and this project will provide data compilation, statistical analyses, and development of visualization tools that will be used by the Network Evaluation Team.