Sachs Harbour Drinking Water Source Watershed (2011)

Sachs Harbour Drinking Water Source Watershed (2011) is a geospatial dataset from the Government of Northwest Territories. The dataset is provided in PDF format and is licensed under the OGL-CA-2.0 license. It was last updated on the platform in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Delineate and analyze drinking water source protection zones based on watershed boundaries.
• Assess environmental risks to community water supplies based on the watershed area.
• Support land-use planning decisions to safeguard drinking water sources.
• Conduct baseline hydrological studies for remote northern settlements.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Government of Northwest Territories.
• Licensed under the permissive OGL-CA-2.0 for reuse.
• Platform metadata indicates a specific temporal reference year of 2011.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government of Northwest Territories | Gouvernement des Territoires du Nord-Ouest

Collection Method

Likely produced through governmental environmental mapping or hydrological analysis.

Time Range

2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 18:00:42.527799; freshness should be verified

Geography

Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, Canada