York-Peel-Durham-Toronto Groundwater Study

The Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM) is a 160 kilometre long ridge of sand, silt and gravel deposits situated in Ontario, Canada. It stretches from the Niagara Escarpment to the eastern shore of Rice Lake.

The York-Peel-Durham-Toronto (YPDT) coalition and the Conservation Authorities Moraine Coalition (CAMC) have undertaken regional and local-scale groundwater studies in the Oak Ridges Moraine.

Purpose/Objective: to improve the understanding and management of the groundwater system within  all watersheds draining from the Oak Ridges Moraine.

The study has four key components:

• data management
• geological framework
• numerical groundwater flow modeling
• planning consistency

A central water related database comprising some 240,000 locations (boreholes, climate and stream) along the length of the Oak Ridges Moraine has been assembled from a variety of provincial, municipal, and conservation authority sources. Linked to these locations are some 55 million temporal data measurements including water quality, water levels, flows, etc.

To learn more about the York-Peel-Durham-Toronto Groundwater Study visit http://www.ypdt-camc.ca.