Nova Scotia Well Logs Database

Enhanced Georeferenced Version of the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Climate Change's Nova Scotia Well Logs Database, Version 5, G.W. Kennedy and B. E. Fisher, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Digital Product ME 430, 2022


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Groundwater Atlas

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Abstract

The Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (NRR) (formerly the Department of Energy and Mines) and Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change (ECC) maintains an electronic Well Log Database which contains water well construction and location information for water wells in the Province of Nova Scotia. Information in the database is entered from original paper copies of well logs that are submitted by certified well drillers and well diggers to ECC. This version of the database was extracted on January 5, 2022 and contains 125,517 well logs constructed between 1940 and 2021, inclusive.

Nova Scotia Open Government Licence

This data is made available under the Nova Scotia Open Government Licence.

Use of this data indicates your acceptance to the terms contained in the Nova Scotia Open Government Licence.

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Sample of Well Logs in the Groundwater Atlas

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Format and Projection

Format ESRI shape files (SHP), ArcGIS File Geodatabase (GDB), a Google Earth compatible file format (KML\KMZ), and TXT files compressed in a single ZIP file (more information on data formats)
Size

SHP/GDB/KML - 24 MB (compressed), 134 MB (uncompressed)

Projection The data is in six-degree Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection, Zone 20, Central Meridian 63° 00' West using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83).

Downloading Instructions

The data files have been compressed into a single ZIP file.

All data sets are in six-degree Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection, Zone 20, Central Meridian 63° 00' West using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83).

A readme file and a link to the licence agreement are also included with each dataset.

Download Digital Data Set DP ME 430