Datasets
Search for specific datasets or use filters to explore our data.
-
Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network (PGMN) datasets report on ambient (baseline) groundwater level and chemistry conditions. Groundwater monitoring mapResource formats:
- SHP
- ZIP
- XLSX
-
Inland Lakes and Streams – Physical Conditions
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This data set includes information on sampling locations and physical conditions in lakes and streams across Ontario. It also includes meteorological conditions from monitoring...Resource formats:
- ZIP
-
Inland Lakes and Streams – Water Chemistry
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This data set includes information on water quality of lakes and streams across Ontario since 1976. It includes: major anions and cations nutrients chlorophyll metals Data...Resource formats:
- ZIP
-
Inland Waters Lakes and Streams – Biological Communities
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This dataset includes information on biological communities in lakes and streams across Ontario since 1976. Biological communities sampled include: crayfish Data were...Resource formats:
- CSV
-
Industrial Wastewater Discharges
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Industrial wastewater monitoring data submitted quarterly to the Ministry of the Environment. This reporting is required by the Effluent Monitoring and Effluent Limits...Resource formats:
- XLS
- XLSX
-
Caribou Range Boundary
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Shows areas where the health and prevalence of caribou can be linked to the attributes of the land that supports them. Ontario's Woodland Caribou Recovery Strategy (2008)...Resource formats:
- SHP
-
Ontario Typical Range Soil Chemistry
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Concentration levels from soil sampled in urban and rural parklands in the province. Data includes: station name and location (rounded to 1 km precision) sample date results...Resource formats:
- SHP
-
Well Records
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This dataset provides information submitted by well contractors as prescribed by Regulation 903, and is stored in the Water Well Information System (WWIS). Spatial information...Resource formats:
- ZIP
- SHP
-
Guide to Eating Ontario Fish: Advisory Database
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Fish consumption advisories for Ontario's lakes and rivers are available in the Guide to Eating Ontario Fish. The zip file below includes a GIS shapefile of all lake/river...Resource formats:
- SHP
- CSV
-
Permit to Take Water
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Companies or organizations who take over 50,000 litres of water/day from a lake, river, stream or groundwater source, must obtain a Permit to Take Water from the Ministry of the...Resource formats:
- SHP
- XLS
-
Ontario Forest Biomonitoring Network
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Ontario Forest Biomonitoring Network (OFBN) monitors the health of mixed hardwood forests across southern and central Ontario. The data set includes: Individual Tree Data:...Resource formats:
- SHP
- XLSX
- TXT
-
Bumble Bee Diversity and Abundance Survey
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks started a project to characterize the number of species of bumble bees and the relative abundances of these species in...Resource formats:
- CSV
-
Sudbury Area Reference Lakes Water Quality
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Water chemistry data with geographic coordinates from lakes primarily in the Sudbury area of Ontario since 1981. Several lakes spread throughout the Sudbury acid rain damage...Resource formats:
- CSV
-
Pollen Monitoring Network Study
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, with assistance from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, started the Pollen Monitoring Network...Resource formats:
- CSV
-
Annual Air Pollutant Statistics
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
This dataset provides a summary of annual air pollution statistics from 1995 to the current available year for six air pollutants: Carbon Monoxide Oxides of Nitrogen (NO, NO2,...Resource formats:
- XLSX
- TXT
-
Sediment Chemistry (Great Lakes Nearshore Areas)
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Data is collected each year, according to the lake-by-lake cycle. Information includes: sediment chemistry approximately 80 index and reference stations throughout the Great...Resource formats:
- XLSX
-
Lake Simcoe Monitoring
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
The Lake Simcoe lake monitoring program provides measurements of chemical and physical water quality limits such as total phosphorus, nitrogen, chlorophyll a, pH, alkalinity,...Resource formats:
- ZIP
- SHP
-
Provincial (Stream) Water Quality Monitoring Network
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Provides stream water quality monitoring data for a number of parameters, including total and dissolved nutrients, metals, and chloride. The Provincial (Stream) Water Quality...Resource formats:
- CSV
- XLSX
-
Climate data – High Resolution Projections
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Ontario-focused high resolution climate information and its application. The data contains the 50th percentile high resolution probabilistic projections of annual averaged...Resource formats:
- ZIP
-
Ontario Benthos Biomonitoring Network
Ministry: Environment, Conservation and Parks
Get data describing benthic-invertebrate (bottom dwelling aquatic invertebrates) community structure and habitat conditions in various waterbodies. This dataset includes:...Resource formats:
- ZIP