2001-2010 Monitoring Data Analysis

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Summary; Yukon; Whitehorse
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.659.2599; http://emrlibrary.gov.yk.ca/environment/yukon_wide_long_term_groundwater_whitehorse.pdf

Climate change is, and will continue, altering the hydrologic cycle in Yukon. In order to adapt to changes affecting communities, decision-makers, water users and Yukoners need to have better access to data and information about Yukon’s water resources. Groundwater is of great importance to Whitehorse community water supply, for both the municipal water system and in country residential subdivisions. Thus, understanding changes to our groundwater resources over time from natural processes and human consumption is important to the proper management of these resources. Previous studies of groundwater in the Whitehorse area have relied on well logs and groundwater exploration programs to better establish hydrogeological conditions in the region. To date, the absence of long-term groundwater monitoring records has precluded more detailed assessments of groundwater resources and their fluctuations over time. Since 2001, four long-term monitoring wells have been established in the community of