Plan St-Laurent - Pour un développement durable

Québec Weather

Tides and Water Levels

Tides, Currents and Water Levels

This site provides predicted times and heights of high and low waters, and the hourly water levels for over seven hundred stations in Canada. (This link goes to the Web site of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada — Bilingual, English and French.)

Water Levels

Quebec Region Station List. (This link goes to the Web site of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada — Bilingual, English and French.)

Level News

Level News is a publication of the Water Issues Division, Environment Canada. You will have access to: information by phone about water levels, water levels for the Great Lakes and Montreal Harbour. (This link goes to the Environment Canada Web site — Bilingual, English and French.)

Impacts of Levels and Flows Fluctuations in the St. Lawrence River

The Program on the Impacts of Level and Flow Fluctuations in the St. Lawrence River studies and quantifies the impacts of these fluctuations on the biological and socio-economic components of the St. Lawrence River ecosystem. (This link goes to the Environment Canada Web site — Bilingual, English and French.)

Le fleuve en panne sèche

Adaptated for Internet, Scientific program presented by Radio-Canada within the framework of the series Discovery. Main topics: hydrographic basin of the St. Lawrence River, the climatic changes, the state of the water level, the garden of Eden of the St. Lawrence, the biodiversity in danger, the maritime way in trouble water, the extinction of drinking water, the solutions. (This link goes to Radio-Canada Web site — In French only.)

Impacts on the ecosystem and on uses of the St. Lawrence of water level fluctuations:

As part of the work of the Water Level Subcommittee of the Biodiversity component, Environment Canada and Environment Quebec researchers are developing a model to describe the dynamics and ecosystem behaviour of the freshwater section of the St. Lawrence River.

Boating activities

Ferries, schedules, rates, information

(This link goes to the Web site of the Société des traversiers du Québec — Bilingual, English and French.)

A boater's Guide

(This link goes to the Web site of Transports Canada — Bilingual, English and French.)

Water Quality

Québec's Water: A resource to be protected

This site provides information on drinking water, surface water, water protection and recreational waters, groundwater, wastewater and watershed, rivers and lakes, and Québec Water Policy. (This link goes to the ministère du Développement durable, de l'Environnement et des Parcs du Québec — Bilingual, English and French.)

Water - General

This site provides information on Bulk Water Removal, Drinking water, Efficiency/Conservation, Floods, Groundwater, Lakes, Legislation and Regulations, Marine, Monitoring, Pollution, Properties, Quality, Rivers, Science and Research, Snow and Ice, Use, Wastewater, Wetlands. (This link goes to the Environment Canada Web site — Bilingual, English and French.)

Monitoring the State of the St. Lawrence River

See the Fact Sheets on the Water Quality in the fluvial section the St. Lawrence River.

St. Lawrence info

This site contains links to documents on the St. Lawrence water quality and quantity, as well as water use. (This link goes to the Environment Canada Web site — Bilingual, English and French.)

Shellfish harvesting

If you need the latest information concerning shellfish harvesting, you can reach the following numbers:

From l’Île-aux-Coudres to Baie-Trinité: 1-800-463-8558
From Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies to Cap-Gaspé: 1-800-463-0607
From Baie-Trinité to Blanc-Sablon: 1-800-463-1736
From Cap-Gaspé to the Matapédia River: 1-800-463-4204
The Magdalen Islands: 1-418-986-3882

Shellfish harvesting in Québec

(This site contains a lot of information about CSSP of which an interactive map that allows to know the actual classification of the shellfish sectors in Quebec — Bilingual, French and English.)

Press releases

(This link goes to the Web site of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada — Bilingual, English and French.)

Shellfish Water Quality Protection Program

(This link goes to the Environment Canada Web site — Bilingual, English and French.)

Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program (CSSP)

(This link goes to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Web site — Bilingual, English and French.)

Shellfish Water Quality

See the serial Fact Sheets on Indicators of the State of the St. Lawrence.

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