Abstract: Alberta Geological Survey partnered with Alberta Environment (AENV) Northern Region to compile and analyze groundwater data in the Cold Lake-Beaver River Drainage Basin. This compilation and analysis assisted AENV and its stakeholders to complete an update of the Beaver River-Cold Lake Water Management Plan. This digital file provides the contours of the hydraulic-head distributions for the Grand Centre, Sand River, Ethel Lake and the Muriel Lake formations, and the Empress Formation Units 1 and 3 based on reported static-water levels from water wells within the study area.
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      DIG_2010_0009.xml
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      eng; CAN
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      dataset
  Metadata author: 
    Responsible party: 
      Organisation name: 
          Alberta Geological Survey
      Position name: 
          AGS Information Manager
      Contact info: 
        Contact: 
          Phone: 
            Telephone: 
              Voice: 
                  (780) 638-4491
              Facsimile: 
                  (780) 422-1918
          Address: 
            Address: 
              Delivery point: 
                  Alberta Energy Regulator
              Delivery point: 
                  4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
              Delivery point: 
                  4999-98 Avenue NW
              City: 
                  Edmonton
              Administrative area: 
                  Alberta
              Postal code: 
                  T6B 2X3
              Country: 
                  Canada
              Electronic mail address: 
                  AGS-Info@aer.ca
          Hours of service: 
              8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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          pointOfContact
  Date stamp: 

      2016-03-29
  Metadata standard name: 
      North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata (NAP-Metadata)
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      ISO 19115-1.1
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Spatial representation info:

Vector spatial representation: Geometric objects: Geometric objects: Geometric object type: Geometric object type code: curve Geometric object count: 408
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Reference system info:

Reference system:
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Reference system info:

xlink: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/docucomp/65f8b220-95ed-11e0-aa80-0800200c9a66 title: North American Datum 1983
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Reference system info:

xlink: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/docucomp/c3895520-95ed-11e0-aa80-0800200c9a66 title: Geodetic Reference System 1980
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Identification info:

Data identification: Citation: Citation: Title: Static-Water-Level Elevation Contours in the Grand Centre, Sand River, Ethel Lake and Muriel Lake Formations, and Empress Formation Unit 1 and 3 in the Cold Lake-Beaver River Drainage Basin (GIS data, line feature) Date: Date: Date: 2010-02-26 Date type: Date type code: publication Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Energy Resources Conservation Board Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Michael, K. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Contact info: Contact: Address: Address: City: Edmonton Administrative area: Alberta, Canada Role: Role code: publisher Presentation form: Presentation form code: mapDigital Series: Series: Name: Digital Data Issue identification: DIG 2010-0009 Abstract: Alberta Geological Survey partnered with Alberta Environment (AENV) Northern Region to compile and analyze groundwater data in the Cold Lake-Beaver River Drainage Basin. This compilation and analysis assisted AENV and its stakeholders to complete an update of the Beaver River-Cold Lake Water Management Plan. This digital file provides the contours of the hydraulic-head distributions for the Grand Centre, Sand River, Ethel Lake and the Muriel Lake formations, and the Empress Formation Units 1 and 3 based on reported static-water levels from water wells within the study area. Purpose: To show the hydraulic-head distribution for certain preglacial or glacial formations within the Cold Lake-Beaver River Basin. Status: Progress code: completed Point of contact: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Position name: AGS Information Manager Contact info: Contact: Phone: Telephone: Voice: (780) 638-4491 Facsimile: (780) 422-1918 Address: Address: Delivery point: Alberta Energy Regulator Delivery point: 4th Floor, Twin Atria Building Delivery point: 4999-98 Avenue NW City: Edmonton Administrative area: Alberta Postal code: T6B 2X3 Country: Canada Electronic mail address: AGS-Info@aer.ca Hours of service: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Role: Role code: pointOfContact Resource maintenance: Maintenance information: Maintenance and update frequency: Maintenance frequency code: notPlanned Descriptive keywords: Keywords: Keyword: geology Keyword: gis data Keyword: glacial Keyword: groundwater Keyword: hydraulic head Keyword: preglacial Type: Keyword type code: theme Thesaurus name: Citation: Title: none Date: unknown Descriptive keywords: Keywords: Keyword: 73l Keyword: 83i Keyword: alberta Keyword: beaver river Keyword: bonnyville Keyword: canada Keyword: cold lake Keyword: sand river Type: Keyword type code: place Thesaurus name: Citation: Title: none Date: unknown Resource constraints: Legal constraints: Access constraints: Restriction code: otherRestrictions Use constraints: Restriction code: otherRestrictions Other constraints: Access Constraints: Public Use Constraints: Acknowledgement of the Alberta Energy Regulator/Alberta Geological Survey as the originator/source of this information is required as described in the Open Government License - Alberta. Distribution Liability: The Alberta Energy Regulator/Alberta Geological Survey (AER/AGS) licenses this information under the Open Government License - Alberta. Any references to proprietary software in our documentation, and/or any use of proprietary data formats in our releases, do not constitute endorsement by the AER/AGS of any manufacturer's product. Aggregation Info: AggregateInformation: Aggregate Data Set Name: Citation: Title: Regional Groundwater Resource Appraisal, Cold Lake-Beaver River Drainage Basin, Alberta Date: Date: Date: 2005-01-01 Date type: Date type code: publication Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Parks, K. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Andriashek, L.D. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Michael, K. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Lemay, T.G. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Stewart, S.A. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Jean, G.M. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Kempin, E. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Contact info: Contact: Address: Address: City: Edmonton Administrative area: Alberta, Canada Online Resource: Online Resource: Linkage: URL: http://ags.aer.ca/ Role: Role code: publisher Presentation form: Presentation form code: documentDigital Series: Series: Name: Special Report Issue identification: SPE 074 Other citation details: Association Type: Association type code: crossReference Aggregation Info: AggregateInformation: Aggregate Data Set Name: Citation: Title: Preglacial and Glacial Formation Extents in the Cold Lake-Beaver River Drainage Basin (GIS data, polygon features) Date: Date: Date: 2010-02-26 Date type: Date type code: publication Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Energy Resources Conservation Board Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Andriashek, L.D. Role: Role code: originator Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Contact info: Contact: Address: Address: City: Edmonton Administrative area: Alberta, Canada Online Resource: Online Resource: Linkage: URL: http://ags.aer.ca/ Role: Role code: publisher Presentation form: Presentation form code: mapDigital Series: Series: Name: Digital Data Issue identification: DIG 2010-0008 Other citation details: Association Type: Association type code: crossReference Spatial representation type: Spatial representation type code: vector Language: eng; CAN Topic category: Topic category code: geoscientificInformation Extent: Extent: Geographic element: Geographic bounding box: West bound longitude: -112.840443 East bound longitude: -109.976421 South bound latitude: 53.956794 North bound latitude: 54.92794 Temporal element: Temporal extent: Extent: Time instant: Description: ground condition Time position: 2010-01-01 Supplemental Information: Language: In English;
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Content info:

Feature catalogue description: Included with dataset: false Feature catalogue citation: Citation: Title: Entity and Attribute Information Date: Other citation details: Detailed Entity and Attribute information is provided with the dataset, formatted as Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata.
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DISTRIBUTION INFO:

Distribution: Distributor: Distributor: Distributor contact: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Position name: AGS Information Manager Contact info: Contact: Phone: Telephone: Voice: (780) 638-4491 Facsimile: (780) 422-1918 Address: Address: Delivery point: Alberta Energy Regulator Delivery point: 4th Floor, Twin Atria Building Delivery point: 4999-98 Avenue NW City: Edmonton Administrative area: Alberta Postal code: T6B 2X3 Country: Canada Electronic mail address: AGS-Info@aer.ca Hours of service: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Role: Role code: distributor Transfer options: Digital transfer options: Online: Online Resource: Linkage: URL: https://static.ags.aer.ca/files/document/DIG/DIG_2010_0009.zip Name: SHP
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Data quality info:

Data quality: Scope: Scope: Hierarchy level: Scope code: dataset Report: Absolute external positional accuracy: Name of measure: Horizontal Positional Accuracy Measure description: Evaluation method description: Because of the uncertainty of well locations on the landscape, contours were derived from data points that are accurate to +/- 400 m of true position. Result: Quantitative result: Value unit: Base unit: Identifier: Units system: xlink: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/ Value: Report: Absolute external positional accuracy: Name of measure: Vertical Positional Accuracy Measure description: Evaluation method description: Due to uncertainty of well elevations, contour values are accurate to within +/- 10 m. Result: Quantitative result: Value unit: Base unit: Identifier: Units system: xlink: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/ Value: Report: Completeness commission: Result: unknown Report: Completeness omission: Evaluation method description: Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) first identified all water wells within the study area. It then examined the completion details of the water wells. Alberta Geological Survey only used wells where: 1. the casing material was listed as being plastic, wood or cribbing; 2. screen or perforated material was plastic or stainless steel; 3. seal material was defined, but where the seal was described as sand pack, gravel pack, sand, gravel, unknown or other the well was culled from the final dataset; 4. the seal bottom interval was within 6.1 m (20 feet) of the top of the screened or perforated interval; and 5. a static-water level was recorded for the well. Alberta Geological Survey assigned the completion interval of the well to formations by comparing the top and bottom interval of the screened or perforated interval to the top and bottom of the formations defined at that well location. If the screened or perforated interval of the well straddled a formation top or bottom, AGS staff examined the well completion details and the lithology recorded during drilling of the well to determine the appropriate formation assignment for that well. If AGS staff could not determine an appropriate assignment, the well was omitted from the final dataset used to determine the static-water level. Visual inspection confirms all line work matched up correctly when overlain with the appended original shapefiles. There are no missing or incorrect line attributes. Result: unknown Report: Conceptual consistency: Measure description: Contour lines from different formations cross each other without intersections. Contour lines are only present where their respective lithological units exist. Because the lithological units are discontinuous, the contours appear segmented over the study area. Result: unknown Report: Non quantitative attribute accuracy: Measure description: Contours are accurate to within +/- 400 m in horizontal position and +/- 10 m in the vertical extent. Result: inapplicable Lineage: Lineage: Statement: Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) first identified all water wells within the study area. It then examined the completion details of the water wells. Alberta Geological Survey only used wells where: 1. the casing material was listed as being plastic, wood or cribbing; 2. screen or perforated material was plastic or stainless steel; 3. seal material was defined, but where the seal was described as sand pack, gravel pack, sand, gravel, unknown or other the well was culled from the final dataset; 4. the seal bottom interval was within 6.1 m (20 feet) of the top of the screened or perforated interval; and 5. a static-water level was recorded for the well. Alberta Geological Survey assigned the completion interval of the well to formations by comparing the top and bottom interval of the screened or perforated interval to the top and bottom of the formations defined at that well location. If the screened or perforated interval of the well straddled a formation top or bottom, AGS staff examined the well completion details and the lithology recorded during drilling of the well to determine the appropriate formation assignment for that well. If AGS staff could not determine an appropriate assignment, the well was omitted from the final dataset used to determine the static-water level. Visual inspection confirms all line work matched up correctly when overlain with the appended original shapefiles. There are no missing or incorrect line attributes. Process step: Process step: Description: Alberta Geological Survey compiled all water wells within the study area from Alberta Environment’s water-well database into an MS Access database. Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) staff used various culling criteria with MS Access to select a subset of water wells to use in the gridding and contouring of static water levels. Once the subset was selected, AGS staff used Viewlog software to assign the wells to the formations the screened or perforated interval fell within. Staff then gridded and contoured the static water level data for each formation using Spatial Analyst in ArcGIS 3. The shapefile was created by combining six individual line shapefiles. For each original shapefile, 1. all columns from the original shapefile were deleted except for ELEVATION in the attribute table; 2. a new column called UNIT was added to store the formation name; and 3. the column heading ELEVATION in the original shapefile was renamed to ELEV_MASL in Excel. We used the Append tool to append all shapefiles into one. Date and time: 2010-01-01T00:00:00 Source: Source: Description: Source Contribution: static water levelsCD-ROM Scale: Representative fraction: Denominator: 0 Source citation: Citation: Title: Regional Groundwater Resource Appraisal, Cold Lake-Beaver River Drainage Basin, Alberta Alternate title: AGS Special Report 074 Date: Date: Date: 2005-01-01 Date type: Date type code: publication Edition: Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Energy and Utilities Board Role: Role code: resourceProvider Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Role: Role code: resourceProvider Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Parks, K. Role: Role code: resourceProvider Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Andriashek, L.D. Role: Role code: resourceProvider Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Michael, K. Role: Role code: resourceProvider Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Lemay, T.G. Role: Role code: resourceProvider Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Stewart, S.A. Role: Role code: resourceProvider Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Jean, G.M. Role: Role code: resourceProvider Cited responsible party: Responsible party: Organisation name: Kempin, E. Role: Role code: resourceProvider Presentation form: Presentation form code: documentDigital Series: Series: Name: Special Report Issue identification: SPE 074 Other citation details: Source extent: Extent: Temporal element: Temporal extent: Extent: Time instant: Description: publication date Time position: 2005-01-01
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Metadata constraints:

Legal constraints: Access constraints: Restriction code: otherRestrictions Use constraints: Restriction code: otherRestrictions Other constraints: Metadata Access Constraints: none Metadata Use Constraints: none
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Metadata maintenance:

Maintenance information: Maintenance and update frequency: unknown Maintenance note: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadatastandard version FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the January 2013 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19115-2 transform. Metadata author: Responsible party: Organisation name: Alberta Geological Survey Position name: AGS Information Manager Contact info: Contact: Phone: Telephone: Voice: (780) 638-4491 Facsimile: (780) 422-1918 Address: Address: Delivery point: Alberta Energy Regulator Delivery point: 4th Floor, Twin Atria Building Delivery point: 4999-98 Avenue NW City: Edmonton Administrative area: Alberta Postal code: T6B 2X3 Country: Canada Electronic mail address: AGS-Info@aer.ca Hours of service: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Role: Role code: custodian
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