Highly Vulnerable Aquifer Education Collection

(disponible en anglais seulement)

An interactive storymap, educational videos, helpful action sheets, and more! Learn about our vulnerable groundwater and how to protect it here.

Overview

This overview is where interested parties may read about the collection’s purpose, context, and related roles and responsibilities.

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Highly Vulnerable Aquifer Story Map

An esri® StoryMap which provides simple text, vibrant photos, educational videos, and interactive maps, from which watershed residents can learn about the natural vulnerability of our regional groundwater system and drinking water reserves.

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Bibliography

A state-of-the-science bibliography that organizes the available scientific references by theme from which local geoscientists, engineers, planning professionals, and other interested parties can discover in the evidence about aquifer vulnerability.

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Action Sheets

The Action sheets provide the tools by which we all may act to protect vulnerable groundwater in our everyday lives.

HVA Videos

Developed by groundwater and public health experts at the local Spring Ridge Training Institute, the following engaging videos explore - with increasing detail - threats to highly vulnerable aquifers and how we can address them.

Highly Vulnerable Aquifers: An Introduction

A brief introduction to the concept of aquifers, how they can become contaminated, and how residents, businesses and governments can do their part to protect them.

Highly Vulnerable Aquifers: Geology, Policy and Protection

A closer look at the hydrogeology behind contamination risks and how policy at local and regional levels can impact their protection.

Highly Vulnerable Aquifers: A Summary of Current Research

A deep-dive into the current scientific research about HVA hydrogeology..