Analysis of the City of Merritt Groundwater Surface Water Data

This report provides an updated analysis of groundwater-surface water interaction within the City of Merritt and includes an analysis of the effect of pumping at the municipal wells and sources of recharge to the Upper Merritt Aquifir.

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Data Owner(s) Ministry of Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship, City of Merritt
Status Not featured
Dataset Collection Organization Ministry of Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship, Golder Associates
Dataset Steward Email Laurie.Lyons@gov.bc.ca
Dataset Upload Year 2024
Dataset Earliest Record Start Date 2021-03-12
Dataset Latest Record End Date 2022-04-27
Level of Confidentiality Public
Dataset Data Disclaimer No warranty or guarantee exists that the information is accurate, complete, current, or suitable for any purpose. Instrument accuracy may be limited. The individual user must confirm the accuracy of the data and whether it will be appropriate for their purpose.
Brief description of dataset location These locations include the municipal production wells, provincial observation wells, monitoring wells, mini-piezometers installed in the rivers (paired surface water and shallow groundwater locations - Coldwater River and Nicola River) and stream flow monitoring locations.
Watershed Coldwater River
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Language English
Purpose A 2021 fall field data collection program completed by FLNRORD was undertaken to duplicate and implement recommendations from the 2020 fall field program. The data was assessed to characterize the type of interaction occurring between groundwater and surface water with respect to the Nicola River, Coldwater River and between the Merritt area aquifers, and effects of pumping at the City of Merritt production wells.
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Dataset Latitude 49.995122
Dataset Longitude -120.888303
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