Pesticide Monitoring Stations and Land Use in Québec Surface Waters

A spatial dataset from Québec provides layers for pesticide monitoring stations, their drainage areas, and associated land use data. The compilation links land use by year to each station's drainage area via a BQMA station number. Data is available in multiple formats including GEOJSON, CSV, and XLS.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between land use data by year and pesticide presence at linked sampling stations
• Map pesticide monitoring station locations and their associated drainage area polygons for environmental assessment
• Join station data with land use tables using the BQMA station number as a key for watershed studies

Strengths

• Includes multiple linked data layers: stations, drainage areas, and a land use table
• Data is provided in 9 different file formats, including spatial (GEOJSON, GPKG) and tabular (CSV, XLS)
• Managed by the Government and Municipalities of Québec, indicating an authoritative source

Limitations

• The exact number of stations, rows of data, and column definitions are unknown
• Land use and drainage area data is only available for some stations, not all
• Metadata was machine-translated, which may introduce clarity issues

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Collection Method

Extracted from the BQMA (likely a provincial database), with links to available reports on the department's website

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Québec, Canada (surface water monitoring stations)