Ontario's Broadscale Monitoring program collected spring water chemistry samples from hundreds of lakes across the province between 2008 and 2019. The data were gathered by the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, with analyses performed by the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks. The program aims to provide standardized, long-term monitoring of fisheries and water quality on a five-year cycle.
Use Cases
- Analyze long-term trends in lake water chemistry based on the five-year monitoring cycle
- Model relationships between lake size and water quality based on lakes ranging from 5 to 250,000 hectares
- Assess regional water quality patterns across hundreds of lakes in Ontario
- Evaluate the impact of fisheries management policies on water chemistry
Strengths
- Data collected from hundreds of lakes across Ontario
- Standardized sampling protocol applied from 2008 to 2019
- Lakes sampled range from 5 to 250,000 hectares in size
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the spring sampling period
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Ontario | Gouvernement de l'Ontario
- Collection Method
- Spring water chemistry samples collected using a standard sampling protocol.
- Time Range
- 2008 to 2019
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:43:46.931621; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Ontario, Canada