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.

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Contact Person {"en": "Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch", "fr": "Gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique; Gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique; Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Branch"}
Contact Email Neil.Goeller@gov.bc.ca
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Open Canada Date Published 2011-03-09 00:00:00
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