Description: 15 NWT lakes with Public Health Advisory (mercury levels) notices from the GNWT Department of Health and Social Services.
There are 15 lakes with health advisory notices/fish consumption notices in the NWT. The Department of Health and Social Services provided information on safe consumption limits for various fish species. Hyperlinks to fish-consumption notices were appended to point data by a URL link in an attribute column.
Description: Data compilation of water arsenic sample locations, for various lakes in the Yellowknife area, supplied to NWTCG from ENR CIMP (Mike Palmer) as well as HSS (Linna Ohara via Joel Holder(ENR)). For more information pertaining to these surveys please contact the government departments.Arsenic levels are obtained during open water season.Grace Lakes Arsenic level is an average from multiple samples.Chemistry AttributesAs = ArsenicSb = Antimony
Description: Mushroom consumption advisory zones around Giant Mine at <10km, 10-25 km and >25 km. For use in GNWT Department of Health and Social Services (HSS) webmap/app found at this address:https://www.hss.gov.nt.ca/en/newsroom/arsenic-lake-water-around-yellowknife