On-line Services

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• Complete list by subject
• On-line forms

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Complete list by subject

Ministère / Air - Climate Change / Biodiversity / Contaminated lands / Dams and Hydrology / Pesticides / Residual Materials / Urgence-Environnement / Water

Ministère

• Information request
  To send, receive and process information requests by e-mail.
• On-line Payments
  This application allows a private individual or a company, a customer of the Ministère, to make full or partial payments to the Ministère online.
• Public Registries (French)
  Registers held by virtue of these laws can be consulted on-line or by means of search tools or in the form of downloadable documents.

 Air - Climate Change

• Air quality index
  Information tool to communicate air pollution measurements. This index is calculated and updated every hour; it stems from the measurement of several air pollutants at various air-quality monitoring stations across the territory.
• Climatic Data - Monitoring Network
  This search engine can be used to obtain a list of the various stations at which data is collected and the types of data collected.
• Volatile organic compounds (VOC)
  Index of 163 data sheets on analyzed volatile organic compounds (VOC). The VOC are classified in five families or family groups.

Biodiversity

Fish - Guide

• Guide for the Consumption of Freshwater Fish from Sportfishing
  Contains maps locating 948 fishing sites in Québec; each one may be consulted for recommendations pertaining to the number of meals containing fish that may be eaten in one month, based on the size of each species of fish caught.

Fish of my river (The)

It is possible to consult lists and illustrations of the species sampled in each tributary of the Bourlamaque River. For each sampling station, there is also a chart giving the percentage of pollution intolerant fish and the percentage of fish with anomalies.

• Bourlamaque River watershed
• Châteauguay River watershed
• Chaudière River watershed
• L'Assomption River watershed
• Richelieu River watershed
• Sainte-Anne River watershed
• Saint-François River watershed
• Saint-Maurice River watershed
• Yamaska River watershed

Contaminated lands

• Directory of contaminated sites
  To obtain certain information on the contaminated sites brought to the attention of the Ministry since 1984.
• Directory of industrial soils and industrial waste disposal sites
  To obtain certain information on industrial soils and industrial waste disposal sites inventoried by the Ministry since 1984.

Dams and Hydrology

• Directory of dams
  Lists and gives certain information on all dams with a height of 1 metre or more. It is designed for dam owners, municipalities, RCMs, citizens living close to such works and in general for any individual or organization interested in dam safety and land-use management.
• Hydrological and hydraulic forecasting
  Offers forecasts of the water level and flow of certain watercourses in southern Québec. This system especially targets the watercourses of certain watersheds that have a dam operated by the Ministère and the watercourses of the Montreal archipelago hydrological system.
• Maps of flood-risk ice-free zones (French)
  Presents the geographic location of all flood-risk sites. Searches cans be carried out according to various criteria, namely by municipality, RCM, administrative region and watercourse.
• Request pertaining to the limits of the State hydrological domain
  Only for professionals registered with the Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres, allow them to obtain information on:
  • Orthometric heights of watercourses for land delimitation;
  • Information or opinions concerning land delimitation of the Crown hydrological domain;
  • Advice pertaining to the land delimitation of watercourses.
• Request pertaining to the ownership of lake and watercourse beds
  Form to address a request pertaining to ownership of a lake or a watercourse. The applicant will receive an answer by fax or mail.
• Level and flow history (French)
  It is possible to obtain a complete history of daily water levels and flow rates recorded by all the hydrometric stations operated by Ministère, whether open or closed, as well as monthly statistics.
• Real-time station hydrology data (French)
  This link displays a graphic presentation of current flow and level for many Québec watercourses. 

Pesticides

• Certificate for the sale and use of pesticides
  An on-line service to obtain a qualification certificate to sell and use pesticides.
• Pesticide purchases and sales declarations
  An on-line service to transmit annual pesticide sales report.

Residual Materials

• Holders of licence of residual hazardous materials (French)

Urgence-Environnement

• Registery (French)

Water

Blue-green Algae

• Plans of water being at present the object of a ban on usage (French)
• Recognizing the presence of a bloom - Visual Inspection
  To report the presence of a bloom.

Drinking Water

• Directory of all municipal drinking water distribution networks
  Searches can be carried out by administrative region, RCM, municipality and type of supply. This directory also gives the number of persons served by a given type of supply.
• Notification to boil water - to not drink the water
  List of  “boil water” and “do not drink the water” notices that were sent to the Ministry by municipal and non-municipal waterworks operators, by administrative region.
• Water distribution networks that have not provided bacteriological results during the past 2 months
  List of municipal and non-municipal waterworks whose managers have not supplied bacteriological results in the past two months, by administrative region.

Groundwater

• Hydrogeological information system (GIS)
  Search a list of 141 000 wells and bore holes drilled in Québec since the coming into effect of the Regulation respecting underground waters in 1967.
• Québec underground water monitoring network (French)

Recreational Waters

• Environnement-Plage Program (seasonal) (French)
  Gives the amount of bacteria in the swimming water at beaches that participate in the Environnement-Plage Program for each region.
• Voluntary monitoring network of recreational lakes
  It is possible to obtain the water quality sampling results for every recreational lake that is part of the monitoring network by searching by lake or administrative region.à

Surface Water

• Criteria for water quality (French)
• Interactive atlas of water and aquatic ecosystem quality (French)
  This atlas provides data from various aquatic environment monitoring networks and information about specific stations, as well.

On-line forms

The following is a list of all the on-line forms currently available on our Web site:

• Information request
  To send, receive and process information requests by e-mail.
• Map of flood-risk open water zones
  To order and receive maps or technical reports on flood-risk zones. Fees are payable upon receipt of an invoice from the Ministère.
• Recognizing the presence of a bloom - Visual Inspection
  To report the presence of a bloom.
• Request pertaining to the limits of the State hydrological domain
  Only for professionals registered with the Ordre des arpenteurs-géomètres, allow them to obtain information on:
  • Orthometric heights of watercourses for land delimitation;
  • Information or opinions concerning land delimitation of the Crown hydrological domain;
  • Advice pertaining to the land delimitation of watercourses.
• Request pertaining to the ownership of lake and watercourse beds
  Form to address a request pertaining to ownership of a lake or a watercourse. The applicant will receive an answer by fax or mail.