British Columbia's copper water quality guidelines for the protection of aquatic life were updated in 2019 using a biotic ligand model. The dataset provides acute water quality guidelines for various concentrations of pH, dissolved organic carbon, and hardness, enabling lookup without running the model software. It is published by the Government of British Columbia.
Use Cases
- Look up acute copper water quality guidelines based on pH values mentioned in the description.
- Determine site-specific copper toxicity thresholds based on dissolved organic carbon concentrations.
- Estimate safe copper levels for aquatic life based on water hardness parameters.
Strengths
- Guidelines are based on a 2019 update using a site-specific biotic ligand model.
- Provides lookup values for three key toxicity modifying factors: pH, DOC, and hardness.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Calculated using the B.C. copper biotic ligand model software.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:34:01.447939; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia