Government of Ontario

This dataset provides annual visitation for all operating provincial parks, including day visitation, camper nights and camping occupancy for July and August. This information is released to inform the public and provide baseline information needed by academics, the tourism sector and others to...

In 2005, the Province of Ontario implemented its Ecological Framework for Recreational Fisheries Management, a component of which was the establishment of standardized, long-term monitoring of the province’s fisheries resource, referred to as Broadscale Monitoring. The Broadscale Monitoring...

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks started the Multi-Media Monitoring Study in 2015, in support of Ontario's Pollinator Health Action Plan, to measure changes in neonicotinoid insecticide concentrations in the environment following restrictions on the use of...

Industrial wastewater monitoring data submitted quarterly to the Ministry of the Environment. This reporting is required by the Effluent Monitoring and Effluent Limits (EMEL/MISA) Regulations. Data is available by individual years. [EMEL]: Effluent Monitoring and Effluent Limits [MISA]: Municipal...

Every year, the Ministry of the Environment Conservation and Parks publicly releases the Environmental Compliance Report on the Ontario Data Catalogue. In Ontario, all facilities with regulated wastewater discharges or air emissions under the Ontario Water Resources Act and the Environmental...

Volumes of water taken daily and annually under a Permit-to-Take-Water, as reported to the ministry under the Water Taking and Transfer Regulation 387/04. The Ontario Water Resources Act (Act) requires anyone who takes more than 50,000 litres of water in a day to obtain a Permit to take Water...