Hydrology: Hydrometric Watershed Boundaries (Historical)

Hydrology: Hydrometric Watershed Boundaries (Historical) Watershed boundary delineated for Canada-BC hydrometric stations. Currently, watersheds were delineated using 1:50,000 scale boundaries in 1996, and many watersheds encompass entire drainages, instead of just the upstream watersheds. Note - Not yet available, but we are in the process of generating BC hydrometric station upstream watersheds using updated base data, using the following method: Within BC, watershed boundaries are based on the 1:20,000-scale Freshwater Atlas fundamental watersheds, and trimmed using the BC TRIM DEM used to approximate the height-of-land at the station locations. Outside of BC, but within Canada, watershed boundaries were approximated using Canada CDED DEM data for delineation (no "stream burning" was used) and some manual editing of boundaries was done to approximately match hydrology data after the fact. Within U.S.A., the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset was used (at the best scale available for each drainage) to delineate the watershed boundary, with the watershed trimmed using the USGS National Elevation Dataset to approximate the height-of-land when necessary. 2025-05-15 Government of British Columbia Neil.Goeller@gov.bc.ca Nature and Environmenthydrologyisolinelow flowstream flowGovernment information BC Geographic Warehouse Custom DownloadHTML https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/hydrology-hydrometric-watershed-boundaries-historical-/resource/0765dbe5-98dc-4133-b675-bc7119e1c295 Original metadata (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca)HTML https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/hydrology-hydrometric-watershed-boundaries-historical- HYDZ_HYD_WATERSHED_BND_POLYKML https://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/kml/geo/layers/WHSE_WATER_MANAGEMENT.HYDZ_HYD_WATERSHED_BND_POLY_loader.kml HYDZ_HYD_WATERSHED_BND_POLYWMS https://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/geo/pub/WHSE_WATER_MANAGEMENT.HYDZ_HYD_WATERSHED_BND_POLY/ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&layers=pub:WHSE_WATER_MANAGEMENT.HYDZ_HYD_WATERSHED_BND_POLY&legend_format=image/png&feature_info_type=text/plain HYDZ_HYD_WATERSHED_BND_POLYWMS https://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/geo/pub/WHSE_WATER_MANAGEMENT.HYDZ_HYD_WATERSHED_BND_POLY/ows?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&layers=pub:WHSE_WATER_MANAGEMENT.HYDZ_HYD_WATERSHED_BND_POLY&legend_format=image/png&feature_info_type=text/plain

Watershed boundary delineated for Canada-BC hydrometric stations. Currently, watersheds were delineated using 1:50,000 scale boundaries in 1996, and many watersheds encompass entire drainages, instead of just the upstream watersheds. Note - Not yet available, but we are in the process of generating BC hydrometric station upstream watersheds using updated base data, using the following method: Within BC, watershed boundaries are based on the 1:20,000-scale Freshwater Atlas fundamental watersheds, and trimmed using the BC TRIM DEM used to approximate the height-of-land at the station locations. Outside of BC, but within Canada, watershed boundaries were approximated using Canada CDED DEM data for delineation (no "stream burning" was used) and some manual editing of boundaries was done to approximately match hydrology data after the fact. Within U.S.A., the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset was used (at the best scale available for each drainage) to delineate the watershed boundary, with the watershed trimmed using the USGS National Elevation Dataset to approximate the height-of-land when necessary.

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