South MacMillan River Watershed Water Quality and Sediment Assessment, Yukon

The South MacMillan River watershed in east-central Yukon near the Northwest Territories border is a highly mineralized area. This dataset likely contains regional stream geochemistry, water quality, sediment, and benthic invertebrate data collected in 2006 to help establish environmental water quality objectives. It was published by the Government of Yukon and last updated on April 17, 2026.

Use Cases

• Establishing environmental water quality objectives based on regional stream geochemistry.
• Analyzing natural metal concentrations in water and soil in a mineralized area.
• Assessing benthic invertebrate populations as indicators of water quality.
• Monitoring sediment composition for environmental baseline studies.

Strengths

• Data is focused on a specific mineralized watershed in Yukon, providing a localized environmental baseline.
• Last updated date is explicitly recorded as 2026-04-17.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government of Yukon

Time Range

2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:46:18.336586; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South MacMillan River watershed, MacMillan Pass, Yukon, Canada