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Nutrient Inputs and Outputs for the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario
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Section 1: Overview
Name of Research Project
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Part
Select first related project
AGPC: Adaptation Governance and Policy Changes in Relation to a Changing Moisture Regime
AWF: Agricultural Water Futures
BWF: Boreal Water Futures
CPE: Climate-Related Precipitation Extremes
CCIWQT: Co-Creation of Indigenous Water Quality Tools
CMFWF: Collaborative Modelling Framework for Water Futures
CWS: Crowdsourcing Water Science
DMHMU: Diagnosing and Mitigating Hydrologic Model Uncertainty in High-Latitude Canadian Watersheds
EIMLL: Evaluation of Ice Models in Large Lakes
FISHNET: FIShNET (Fish & IndigenouS NorthErn healTh): Healthy Water, Healthy Fish, Healthy People
FORMBLOOM: Forecasting Tools and Mitigation Options for Diverse Bloom-Affected Lakes
GWC: Global Water Citizenship (Integrating Networked Citizens, Scientists and Local Decision Makers)
HPFS: Hydrological Processes in Frozen Soils
IEWE: Improved Estimates of Wetland Evaporation
IMPC: Integrated Modelling Program for Canada
IWGD: Is our Water Good to Drink? Water-Related Practices, Perceptions and Traditional Knowledge Indicators for Human Health
LF: Lake Futures
LMSAER: Linking Multiple Stressors to Adverse Ecological Responses Across Watersheds
LSNPM: Linking Stream Network Process Models to Robust Data Management Systems (for the Purpose of Land-Use Decision Support)
LWGC: Linking Water Governance in Canada to Global Economic, Social, and Political Drivers
MATWF: Matawa Water Futures: Developing an Indigenous-Informed Framework for Watershed Monitoring and Stewardship
MWF: Mountain Water Futures
NGS: Next Generation Solutions for Healthy Water Resources
NWF: Northern Water Futures
OIEKTC: Ohneganos - Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Training and Co-Creation of Mixed Method Tools
OMNSHCGP: Old Meets New: Subsurface Hydrological Connectivity and Groundwater Protection
OCFM: Developing 'Omic' and Chemical Fingerprinting Methodologies
PDG: Prairie Drainage Governance
PW: Prairie Water
SAMMS: Sub-Arctic Metal Mobility Study
SSSWQM: Sensors and Sensing Systems for Water Quality Monitoring
SDEPFC: Short-Duration Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate
SGDHM: Significance of Groundwater Dynamics within Hydrologic Models
SFWF: Southern Forests Water Futures
SPADE: Storms and Precipitation Across the Continental Divide Experiment
TSTSW: Transformative Sensor Technologies and Smart Watersheds
WKC: Water knowledge camps: building capacity for cross-cultural water knowledge, research, and environmental monitoring
WNM: We Need More than Just Water: Assessing Sediment Limitation in a Large Freshwater Delta
WSPT: Winter Soil Processes in Transition
Other
Select second related project (if applicable)
AGPC: Adaptation Governance and Policy Changes in Relation to a Changing Moisture Regime
AWF: Agricultural Water Futures
BWF: Boreal Water Futures
CPE: Climate-Related Precipitation Extremes
CCIWQT: Co-Creation of Indigenous Water Quality Tools
CMFWF: Collaborative Modelling Framework for Water Futures
CWS: Crowdsourcing Water Science
DMHMU: Diagnosing and Mitigating Hydrologic Model Uncertainty in High-Latitude Canadian Watersheds
EIMLL: Evaluation of Ice Models in Large Lakes
FISHNET: FIShNET (Fish & IndigenouS NorthErn healTh): Healthy Water, Healthy Fish, Healthy People
FORMBLOOM: Forecasting Tools and Mitigation Options for Diverse Bloom-Affected Lakes
GWC: Global Water Citizenship (Integrating Networked Citizens, Scientists and Local Decision Makers)
HPFS: Hydrological Processes in Frozen Soils
IEWE: Improved Estimates of Wetland Evaporation
IMPC: Integrated Modelling Program for Canada
IWGD: Is our Water Good to Drink? Water-Related Practices, Perceptions and Traditional Knowledge Indicators for Human Health
LF: Lake Futures
LMSAER: Linking Multiple Stressors to Adverse Ecological Responses Across Watersheds
LSNPM: Linking Stream Network Process Models to Robust Data Management Systems (for the Purpose of Land-Use Decision Support)
LWGC: Linking Water Governance in Canada to Global Economic, Social, and Political Drivers
MATWF: Matawa Water Futures: Developing an Indigenous-Informed Framework for Watershed Monitoring and Stewardship
MWF: Mountain Water Futures
NGS: Next Generation Solutions for Healthy Water Resources
NWF: Northern Water Futures
OIEKTC: Ohneganos - Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Training and Co-Creation of Mixed Method Tools
OMNSHCGP: Old Meets New: Subsurface Hydrological Connectivity and Groundwater Protection
OCFM: Developing 'Omic' and Chemical Fingerprinting Methodologies
PDG: Prairie Drainage Governance
PW: Prairie Water
SAMMS: Sub-Arctic Metal Mobility Study
SSSWQM: Sensors and Sensing Systems for Water Quality Monitoring
SDEPFC: Short-Duration Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate
SGDHM: Significance of Groundwater Dynamics within Hydrologic Models
SFWF: Southern Forests Water Futures
SPADE: Storms and Precipitation Across the Continental Divide Experiment
TSTSW: Transformative Sensor Technologies and Smart Watersheds
WKC: Water knowledge camps: building capacity for cross-cultural water knowledge, research, and environmental monitoring
WNM: We Need More than Just Water: Assessing Sediment Limitation in a Large Freshwater Delta
WSPT: Winter Soil Processes in Transition
Other
Select third related project (if applicable)
AGPC: Adaptation Governance and Policy Changes in Relation to a Changing Moisture Regime
AWF: Agricultural Water Futures
BWF: Boreal Water Futures
CPE: Climate-Related Precipitation Extremes
CCIWQT: Co-Creation of Indigenous Water Quality Tools
CMFWF: Collaborative Modelling Framework for Water Futures
CWS: Crowdsourcing Water Science
DMHMU: Diagnosing and Mitigating Hydrologic Model Uncertainty in High-Latitude Canadian Watersheds
EIMLL: Evaluation of Ice Models in Large Lakes
FISHNET: FIShNET (Fish & IndigenouS NorthErn healTh): Healthy Water, Healthy Fish, Healthy People
FORMBLOOM: Forecasting Tools and Mitigation Options for Diverse Bloom-Affected Lakes
GWC: Global Water Citizenship (Integrating Networked Citizens, Scientists and Local Decision Makers)
HPFS: Hydrological Processes in Frozen Soils
IEWE: Improved Estimates of Wetland Evaporation
IMPC: Integrated Modelling Program for Canada
IWGD: Is our Water Good to Drink? Water-Related Practices, Perceptions and Traditional Knowledge Indicators for Human Health
LF: Lake Futures
LMSAER: Linking Multiple Stressors to Adverse Ecological Responses Across Watersheds
LSNPM: Linking Stream Network Process Models to Robust Data Management Systems (for the Purpose of Land-Use Decision Support)
LWGC: Linking Water Governance in Canada to Global Economic, Social, and Political Drivers
MATWF: Matawa Water Futures: Developing an Indigenous-Informed Framework for Watershed Monitoring and Stewardship
MWF: Mountain Water Futures
NGS: Next Generation Solutions for Healthy Water Resources
NWF: Northern Water Futures
OIEKTC: Ohneganos - Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Training and Co-Creation of Mixed Method Tools
OMNSHCGP: Old Meets New: Subsurface Hydrological Connectivity and Groundwater Protection
OCFM: Developing 'Omic' and Chemical Fingerprinting Methodologies
PDG: Prairie Drainage Governance
PW: Prairie Water
SAMMS: Sub-Arctic Metal Mobility Study
SSSWQM: Sensors and Sensing Systems for Water Quality Monitoring
SDEPFC: Short-Duration Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate
SGDHM: Significance of Groundwater Dynamics within Hydrologic Models
SFWF: Southern Forests Water Futures
SPADE: Storms and Precipitation Across the Continental Divide Experiment
TSTSW: Transformative Sensor Technologies and Smart Watersheds
WKC: Water knowledge camps: building capacity for cross-cultural water knowledge, research, and environmental monitoring
WNM: We Need More than Just Water: Assessing Sediment Limitation in a Large Freshwater Delta
WSPT: Winter Soil Processes in Transition
Other
Select fourth related project (if applicable)
AGPC: Adaptation Governance and Policy Changes in Relation to a Changing Moisture Regime
AWF: Agricultural Water Futures
BWF: Boreal Water Futures
CPE: Climate-Related Precipitation Extremes
CCIWQT: Co-Creation of Indigenous Water Quality Tools
CMFWF: Collaborative Modelling Framework for Water Futures
CWS: Crowdsourcing Water Science
DMHMU: Diagnosing and Mitigating Hydrologic Model Uncertainty in High-Latitude Canadian Watersheds
EIMLL: Evaluation of Ice Models in Large Lakes
FISHNET: FIShNET (Fish & IndigenouS NorthErn healTh): Healthy Water, Healthy Fish, Healthy People
FORMBLOOM: Forecasting Tools and Mitigation Options for Diverse Bloom-Affected Lakes
GWC: Global Water Citizenship (Integrating Networked Citizens, Scientists and Local Decision Makers)
HPFS: Hydrological Processes in Frozen Soils
IEWE: Improved Estimates of Wetland Evaporation
IMPC: Integrated Modelling Program for Canada
IWGD: Is our Water Good to Drink? Water-Related Practices, Perceptions and Traditional Knowledge Indicators for Human Health
LF: Lake Futures
LMSAER: Linking Multiple Stressors to Adverse Ecological Responses Across Watersheds
LSNPM: Linking Stream Network Process Models to Robust Data Management Systems (for the Purpose of Land-Use Decision Support)
LWGC: Linking Water Governance in Canada to Global Economic, Social, and Political Drivers
MATWF: Matawa Water Futures: Developing an Indigenous-Informed Framework for Watershed Monitoring and Stewardship
MWF: Mountain Water Futures
NGS: Next Generation Solutions for Healthy Water Resources
NWF: Northern Water Futures
OIEKTC: Ohneganos - Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Training and Co-Creation of Mixed Method Tools
OMNSHCGP: Old Meets New: Subsurface Hydrological Connectivity and Groundwater Protection
OCFM: Developing 'Omic' and Chemical Fingerprinting Methodologies
PDG: Prairie Drainage Governance
PW: Prairie Water
SAMMS: Sub-Arctic Metal Mobility Study
SSSWQM: Sensors and Sensing Systems for Water Quality Monitoring
SDEPFC: Short-Duration Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate
SGDHM: Significance of Groundwater Dynamics within Hydrologic Models
SFWF: Southern Forests Water Futures
SPADE: Storms and Precipitation Across the Continental Divide Experiment
TSTSW: Transformative Sensor Technologies and Smart Watersheds
WKC: Water knowledge camps: building capacity for cross-cultural water knowledge, research, and environmental monitoring
WNM: We Need More than Just Water: Assessing Sediment Limitation in a Large Freshwater Delta
WSPT: Winter Soil Processes in Transition
Other
Select fifth related project (if applicable)
AGPC: Adaptation Governance and Policy Changes in Relation to a Changing Moisture Regime
AWF: Agricultural Water Futures
BWF: Boreal Water Futures
CPE: Climate-Related Precipitation Extremes
CCIWQT: Co-Creation of Indigenous Water Quality Tools
CMFWF: Collaborative Modelling Framework for Water Futures
CWS: Crowdsourcing Water Science
DMHMU: Diagnosing and Mitigating Hydrologic Model Uncertainty in High-Latitude Canadian Watersheds
EIMLL: Evaluation of Ice Models in Large Lakes
FISHNET: FIShNET (Fish & IndigenouS NorthErn healTh): Healthy Water, Healthy Fish, Healthy People
FORMBLOOM: Forecasting Tools and Mitigation Options for Diverse Bloom-Affected Lakes
GWC: Global Water Citizenship (Integrating Networked Citizens, Scientists and Local Decision Makers)
HPFS: Hydrological Processes in Frozen Soils
IEWE: Improved Estimates of Wetland Evaporation
IMPC: Integrated Modelling Program for Canada
IWGD: Is our Water Good to Drink? Water-Related Practices, Perceptions and Traditional Knowledge Indicators for Human Health
LF: Lake Futures
LMSAER: Linking Multiple Stressors to Adverse Ecological Responses Across Watersheds
LSNPM: Linking Stream Network Process Models to Robust Data Management Systems (for the Purpose of Land-Use Decision Support)
LWGC: Linking Water Governance in Canada to Global Economic, Social, and Political Drivers
MATWF: Matawa Water Futures: Developing an Indigenous-Informed Framework for Watershed Monitoring and Stewardship
MWF: Mountain Water Futures
NGS: Next Generation Solutions for Healthy Water Resources
NWF: Northern Water Futures
OIEKTC: Ohneganos - Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Training and Co-Creation of Mixed Method Tools
OMNSHCGP: Old Meets New: Subsurface Hydrological Connectivity and Groundwater Protection
OCFM: Developing 'Omic' and Chemical Fingerprinting Methodologies
PDG: Prairie Drainage Governance
PW: Prairie Water
SAMMS: Sub-Arctic Metal Mobility Study
SSSWQM: Sensors and Sensing Systems for Water Quality Monitoring
SDEPFC: Short-Duration Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate
SGDHM: Significance of Groundwater Dynamics within Hydrologic Models
SFWF: Southern Forests Water Futures
SPADE: Storms and Precipitation Across the Continental Divide Experiment
TSTSW: Transformative Sensor Technologies and Smart Watersheds
WKC: Water knowledge camps: building capacity for cross-cultural water knowledge, research, and environmental monitoring
WNM: We Need More than Just Water: Assessing Sediment Limitation in a Large Freshwater Delta
WSPT: Winter Soil Processes in Transition
Other
Dataset Title
Nutrient Inputs and Outputs for the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario
Creators
Purpose
The purpose of this research project is to quantify nitrogen and phosphorus flows through a mixed urban and rural area. There is particular interest to find the ways in which increasing population densities in the Greater Toronto Area are impacting nutrient flows across Southern Ontario’s urban/rural continuum and how changing nutrient dynamics may lead to increasingly impaired water quality in Lake Ontario and beyond. This work looks to establish the “metabolism” of the Greater Toronto Area in 2011 through the analysis of the various inputs and outputs of the system that includes factors such as food consumption, fertilizer usage, crop production, and wastewater treatment plants outputs. This data set is collected for the project titled "Lake Futures: Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of Lakes and Their Watersheds". Lake Futures is a Pillar 3 project under the Global Water Futures Program funded by Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
Abstract
In this work, a mass balance approach was used to quantify the flow of nutrients through urban, suburban, and rural areas of the Greater Toronto Area. A wide range of factors are considered, including human behaviour, domestic animals, stormwater management, and wastewater treatment processes. The necessary data from Census Canada and municipalities (such as wastewater treatment reports) were gathered and consolidated manually to consider missing information due to sampling or privacy issues. Maps were generated in ArcGIS to spatially locate inputs such as fertilizer (separately for residential lawns, agricultural fields, and parks) and food consumption (humans, pets, and livestock) as well as outputs such as crop production and wastewater treatment plant outfalls. The land divisions (urban, suburban, and rural) were determined using land use maps and population density in ArcGIS.
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Basu, N., Samson, M.I., and Van Meter, K. (2019). Nutrient Inputs and Outputs for the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario. Canadian Cryospheric Information Network (CCIN). Unpublished Data. Additional Citation: Samson, M., K.J. Van Meter, N.B. Basu. Urban Metabolism of the Greater Toronto Area: A Study of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Across an Urban, Suburban, and Rural Continuum, Masters Thesis, University of Waterloo.
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https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/PDCSearchDOI.jsp?doi_id=12993
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Limited (data involve intellectual property issues related to local or traditional knowledge)
Limited (release of data may cause harm to the environment or the public)
Limited (Pre-existing data have been used and are subject to access restrictions)
Limited: data involve human subjects
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