In production, but maybe in Alpha or Beta. Intended to persist and be supported.

Analysis of trends in groundwater levels in B.C.

This is a set of R scripts to reproduce the 2013 analysis of trends in groundwater levels presented on Environmental Reporting BC.

The scripts use the bcgroundwater package and groundwater monitoring data from the B.C. observation well network to analyze long-term trends of groundwater levels and produce summary visualizations as well as individual well statistics.

Usage

Data

Raw groundwater level data can be downloaded from the B.C. Observation Well Network.
- Median monthly groundwater levels are available under the Open Government Licence - British Columbia as a direct download from the B.C. Data Catalogue. If you would prefer to run the analysis beginning with these data rather than downloading the individual raw data files, set the downloadMonthly variable to TRUE at the top of 01_clean.R
Well attribute data are included as a zip file in the data folder. They are available from the B.C. Data Catalogue, under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia
Natural Resource Regions used in the summaries are included as a zip file in the data folder. They are available from the BC Data Catalogue under the Open Government Licence–British Columbia

Code

There are four core scripts that are required for the analysis, they need to be run in order:

01_clean.R
02_analysis.R
03_visualize.R
04_output.R

Project Status

The results of our analysis can be downloaded as a .csv in the data section of the indicator page.

We are not actively developing this analysis, but you can check the issues for things we would like to fix or work on.

Getting Help or Reporting an Issue

To report bugs/issues/feature requests, please file an issue.

How to Contribute

If you would like to contribute, please see our CONTRIBUTING guidelines.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

License

Copyright 2015 Province of British Columbia

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at 

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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