Foundry Spatial Ltd.
July 7, 2013
Executive Summary
The Integrated Assessment of Water Resources for Unconventional Oil and Gas Plays, West- Central Alberta, is a multi-stakeholder project that is building a regional understanding of surface water, groundwater and deep saline water resources and disposal zones in a large portion of west-central Alberta. The project is compiling existing data and research results, interpreting key factors controlling water availability, and integrating the results from surface to deep subsurface zones. An initial phase of the project involved a survey of existing knowledge in the form of publically available research products. This report summarizes the results of this survey, in the form of an annotated bibliography for selected references and additional listed references for follow-up on specific items of interest. In parallel to the literature review, compilation was undertaken for spatial data related to aspects of both surface water and groundwater systems. Information on the provenance of these data sources is available under separate cover in companion with the data itself. There exists some overlap, however, particularly in cases where journal articles or government publications relating to the development of specific data products are included.
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