Monitoring
The Air Quality Health Index or "AQHI" is a public information tool. Using the AQHI can help you to protect yourself better from the negative effects of air pollution. You can do this by:
limiting short-term exposure to air pollution, and
adjusting...
What type of air monitoring does PEI do?
The quality of the air in PEI is influenced by two sources; the emissions we generate locally and those that come to us from provinces to the west and from the northeastern United States. To know what the...
What is the Air Quality Management System?
The Air Quality Management System (AQMS) was developed by federal, provincial and territorial governments in conjunction with a variety of stakeholders over a number of years. Its purpose is to set standards...
You can use this online application to get detailed information about the quality of drinking water in Island communities and watersheds. The application provides a summary of the on-going testing of drinking water done by the Prince Edward Island...
Stream level data is available for a number of streams across the province. Stream level data can be accessed from June through September, and is also available for download.
What is this data used for?
Those who hold a Water Withdrawal for Irrigation...
Over 100 wells are monitored annually, including those that provide drinking water to private homes, schools, municipalities, and seniors’ housing facilities. Sampling of the wells is conducted each January/February by departmental staff. The collected...
Surface water from nine rivers is sampled under the Pesticide Monitoring Program. At least three of the nine rivers are sampled each year for a selected number of pesticides.
Stream water samples and sediment samples are collected once in July, twice...
Weekly precipitation samples are collected on a weekly basis from monitoring equipment in Southampton, PEI on a year-round basis. The precipitation that is collected includes rainwater and snow, often called wet precipitation. The main objective of the...
Groundwater level search results include data from 14 groundwater level observation wells across PEI; mapped locations of observation wells; graphs; and downloadable raw data. The groundwater level data provides long-term trend information, both...
Water found in rivers, streams, ponds, and estuaries is known as surface water. You can search the surface water quality results to find information about the quality of surface water in PEI including sampling locations, down-loadable raw data, and...
The Department has developed a scoring system to report on water quality in watersheds, so that Islanders can see the general health of water and compare it to that of other PEI watersheds.
What is being reported on?
Each watershed is scored on:
The...