E-DAT TUTORIAL TODAY

As mentioned in Tuesday's posting (2 days ago) there was a tutorial held this morning at the offices of Conestoga Rovers in Waterloo. Participants included four CPAC members, two SWAT team members and Jeff Merriman from Chemtura. The CRA contingent consisted of Kristen, Ted and Adam. Ted took us through reports and data available on the flash drive and he was followed by Kristen speaking specifically to the 3-D visualization aspects of the flash drive.

Both presenters knew their stuff and were very availble to questions throughout. Further comments and clarifications were given by Adam and Jeff M. The questions and clarifications pointed out the incredible amount of data, literally going back decades, that is available on theses flash drives. The 3-D Visualization is extremely helpful in understanding the big geological picture as well as the how and where the different aquifers are flowing. Things like windows in the Aquitards can be found as well as seeing directly how the aquifers generally slope to the south-west and thus flow towards the Conestogo River in St. Jacobs.

Much of this data can be learned the hard way over decades of reading reports but this entire program speeds up the process dramatically. It also allows for incredible ability to retrieve data and information without spending hours searching through hard copy reports. Kudos to CRA for their technical talents and kudos to Chemtura for making this information readily available to CPAC and the public.