Environmental Reporting BC updated the indicator 'Long-term Trends in Groundwater Levels in B.C.' in 2024. The analysis uses data from the Provincial Groundwater Observation Well Network and includes three tabular datasets: annual trend results by well, complete trending results for visualization, and monthly median groundwater levels. The R code for reproducing the indicator summary data is available on GitHub.
Use Cases
- Analyze long-term groundwater level trends based on the annual trend analysis results by well.
- Visualize monthly groundwater level changes based on the monthly median groundwater levels dataset.
- Compare trend significance across different time periods (all-data, 10-year, 20-year) based on the trend analysis results.
- Map groundwater monitoring locations based on well attributes like latitude, longitude, and aquifer type.
Strengths
- Includes three distinct datasets for annual trends, complete trending results, and monthly median levels.
- Well attributes include name, number, lat/long, depth, aquifer type, and region.
- Reproducible analysis with R code available on GitHub.
- Updated by Environmental Reporting BC in 2024.
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 geographic bias inherent to open_canada, focusing solely on British Columbia.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
- Collection Method
- Analysis of groundwater level monitoring data from the Provincial Groundwater Observation Well Network.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:34:16.851291; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada