Environmental Risk Information Services - Site Registry and Definitions
Technical document excerpt describing environmental databases and definitions used in risk assessment reporting for the project site.
Site Registry: Provincial SREG
This information is collected from the Ministry of Environment's Site Registry. It is not a registry of contaminated sites, although some sites on the registry are contaminated. Most sites have already been investigated and require minor remediation, or have already been cleaned up to government requirements. The Registry also stores environmentally relevant historic information about sites including: names of participants, legal and administrative notations, references to pertinent documents submitted to the ministry, associations with other sites, and much more.
- Please note the information provided in the Detail Reports have been updated to the best of our ability as provided by the source, BC Government.
For more information, please contact your ERIS sales representative.
Government Publication Date: Sep 30, 2017; details from Oct 2012
Transport Canada Fuel Storage Tanks: Federal TCFT
List of fuel storage tanks currently or previously owned or operated by Transport Canada. This inventory also includes tanks on The Pickering Lands, which refers to 7,530 hectares (18,600 acres) of land in Pickering, Markham, and Uxbridge owned by the Government of Canada since 1972; properties on this land has been leased by the government since 1975, and falls under the Site Management Policy of Transport Canada, but is administered by Public Works and Government Services Canada. This inventory provides information on the site name, location, tank age, capacity and fuel type.
Government Publication Date: 1970-Aug 2017
Waste Disposal Site Inventory: Provincial WDS
This inventory pertains to active, regulated waste disposal sites within the province of British Columbia. Registered companies may hold a permit or certificate for release of the following waste types: Effluent, Refuse, Air and Special Waste Storage. Information on Waste Disposal Sites after 1998 is contained within the Authorizations (AUTH) database.
Government Publication Date: 1980-1998*
Water Well Information System: Provincial WWIS
This database was collected from the Groundwater Information Center of the Ministry of Water, Land & Air Protection and contains over 90,000 records. Comprehensive information is available for each well including: well location (address/site area), latitude/longitude, legal description (section, lot, plan, district lot, range, township), BCGS Mapsheet No., depth of well, construction dates, well status and lithology. The accuracy of well locations is also provided, as well as the reference source for obtaining geographic coordinates.
Government Publication Date: Oct 31, 2017
Definitions
Database Descriptions: This section provides a detailed explanation for each database including: source, information available, time coverage, and acronyms used. They are listed in alphabetic order.
Detail Report: This is the section of the report which provides the most detail for each individual record. Records are summarized by location, starting with the project property followed by records in closest proximity.
Distance: The distance value is the distance between plotted points, not necessarily the distance between the sites' boundaries. All values are an approximation.
Direction: The direction value is the compass direction of the site in respect to the project property and/or center point of the report.
Elevation: The elevation value is taken from the location at which the records for the site address have been plotted. All values are an approximation. Source: Google Elevation API.
Executive Summary: This portion of the report is divided into 3 sections:
'Report Summary'- Displays a chart indicating how many records fall on the project property and, within the report search radii.
'Site Report Summary'-Project Property'- This section lists all the records which fall on the project property. For more details, see the 'Detail Report' section.
'Site Report Summary-Surrounding Properties'- This section summarizes all records on adjacent properties, listing them in order of proximity from the project property. For more details, see the 'Detail Report' section.
Map Key: The map key number is assigned according to closest proximity from the project property. Map Key numbers always start at #1. The project property will always have a map key of '1' if records are available. If there is a number in brackets beside the main number, this will indicate the number of records on that specific property. If there is no number in brackets, there is only one record for that property.
The symbol and colour used indicates 'elevation': the red inverted triangle will dictate 'ERIS Sites with Lower Elevation', the yellow triangle will dictate 'ERIS Sites with Higher Elevation' and the orange square will dictate 'ERIS Sites with Same Elevation.'
Unplottables: These are records that could not be mapped due to various reasons, including limited geographic information. These records may or may not be in your study area, and are included as reference.