[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flegal-land-description-for-water-resources":3,"learn-related-how-to\u002Flegal-land-description-for-water-resources":331},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":312,"createdAt":313,"cta":313,"description":314,"extension":315,"icon":313,"industry":316,"keywords":317,"meta":324,"navigation":326,"path":327,"province":158,"relatedPages":313,"section":313,"seo":328,"stem":329,"systems":313,"updatedAt":313,"__hash__":330},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flegal-land-description-for-water-resources.md","Legal Land Descriptions for Water Resources - Licences, Irrigation Districts, and Intake Planning",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":291},"minimark",[9,14,18,21,26,31,34,37,46,50,58,71,75,79,86,94,101,105,108,120,128,132,135,145,152,156,160,163,185,189,195,199,207,211,220,233,245,254,262,266,277],[10,11,13],"h1",{"id":12},"legal-land-descriptions-for-water-licensing-and-water-resource-planning","Legal Land Descriptions for Water Licensing and Water Resource Planning",[15,16,17],"p",{},"Every water licence application in Alberta references a DLS quarter section. Every BC water licence application references an NTS grid cell. Irrigation district managers, municipal water intake planners, and agricultural producers filing for water diversion registrations under the Alberta Water Act all identify their water source locations, points of diversion, and areas of use by legal land description.",[15,19,20],{},"Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (AEPA) administers thousands of active water licences and registrations under the Water Act, each tied to a DLS location. BC's Water Sustainability Act requires NTS map sheet references for licence applications outside the Lower Mainland. Converting between these legal descriptions and GPS coordinates is a routine step in every water licence filing, irrigation district planning cycle, and municipal water intake assessment.",[22,23,25],"h2",{"id":24},"how-water-licensing-uses-legal-land-descriptions","How Water Licensing Uses Legal Land Descriptions",[27,28,30],"h3",{"id":29},"alberta-water-act-applications","Alberta Water Act Applications",[15,32,33],{},"The Alberta Water Act requires a legal land description for every point of diversion, place of use, and works location in a licence or registration application. A farmer applying for a water diversion registration to fill a dugout from a spring identifies the dugout location as a DLS quarter section or LSD. A municipality applying for a licence to draw water from a river identifies the intake structure by its LSD address.",[15,35,36],{},"The AEPA approval process cross-references the legal land description against existing allocations in the same watershed. If two licence applications reference adjacent quarter sections drawing from the same aquifer or watercourse, the department evaluates cumulative impact based on those DLS locations. A wrong legal description on a water licence application can delay processing by weeks while the location is corrected and the allocation reassessed.",[15,38,39,40,45],{},"For a detailed explanation of how the DLS grid is structured, see ",[41,42,44],"a",{"href":43},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Ftownship-range-meridian-explained","Township, Range, and Meridian Explained",".",[27,47,49],{"id":48},"bc-water-sustainability-act-applications","BC Water Sustainability Act Applications",[15,51,52,53,57],{},"In British Columbia, water licence applications under the Water Sustainability Act identify the source location using NTS map sheet references for areas outside the established DLS grid. A forestry company applying for a water licence to supply a remote camp on Vancouver Island identifies the creek diversion point within NTS sheet ",[54,55,56],"strong",{},"092F\u002F07",". An agricultural operation in the Okanagan applying for an irrigation licence references its intake structure within the NTS grid.",[15,59,60,61,65,66,70],{},"Converting an NTS reference to GPS coordinates confirms the diversion point location before field survey and helps the applicant prepare the required map. See ",[41,62,64],{"href":63},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fnts-to-gps-converter","NTS to GPS Converter"," for a full walkthrough, or use the ",[41,67,69],{"href":68},"\u002Fbc-nts-converter","BC NTS converter"," directly.",[22,72,74],{"id":73},"real-world-scenarios","Real-World Scenarios",[27,76,78],{"id":77},"scenario-1-irrigation-district-water-allocation-review","Scenario 1: Irrigation District Water Allocation Review",[15,80,81,82,85],{},"An irrigation district in southern Alberta is reviewing allocations across its service area for the upcoming growing season. The district manages water delivery to several hundred irrigators, each identified by the DLS quarter sections they irrigate. A pivot irrigator at ",[54,83,84],{},"NW 18-010-19W4"," draws from a lateral canal that serves a block of contiguous quarter sections south of the Bow River.",[15,87,88,89,93],{},"The district office needs a current map showing every irrigated quarter section with its allocation volume and delivery lateral for the annual report to AEPA. Enter the full list of quarter sections into the ",[41,90,92],{"href":91},"\u002Fapp\u002Fbatch","batch converter"," and export the GPS coordinates as a CSV for import into the district's mapping system. The result shows every irrigated parcel on satellite imagery, confirming which fields are adjacent to which canals.",[15,95,96],{},[97,98],"img",{"alt":99,"src":100},"Batch converter results for southern Alberta irrigation quarter sections near Township 10, Range 19, W4M, with GPS coordinates and satellite imagery showing pivot circles","\u002Fimages\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flegal-land-description-for-water-resources\u002Fbatch-converter-results.png",[27,102,104],{"id":103},"scenario-2-municipal-water-intake-licence-application","Scenario 2: Municipal Water Intake Licence Application",[15,106,107],{},"A town in central Alberta is applying to AEPA for a water licence to construct a new intake on the North Saskatchewan River. The application form requires the legal land description of the proposed intake structure, the pipeline route from the river to the treatment plant, and the distribution area.",[15,109,110,111,114,115,119],{},"The intake location is at ",[54,112,113],{},"LSD 03-18-039-27W4",", a 40-acre parcel on the riverbank near Ponoka. The pipeline route crosses three quarter sections between the river and the treatment plant. The engineer converts all four DLS descriptions to GPS coordinates using ",[41,116,118],{"href":117},"\u002F","Township Canada"," to prepare the location map required for the application package.",[15,121,122,123,127],{},"Use the ",[41,124,126],{"href":125},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flsd-finder","LSD finder"," to pinpoint the 40-acre parcel where the intake structure will sit. The surrounding quarter sections are visible on the map view, showing the pipeline route context without switching to a separate mapping tool.",[27,129,131],{"id":130},"scenario-3-pfra-dugout-construction-filing","Scenario 3: PFRA Dugout Construction Filing",[15,133,134],{},"A cattle operation near Hanna, Alberta needs a new dugout for livestock watering. Under the Water Act, dugouts below a certain storage volume may qualify for a traditional agricultural use registration rather than a full licence, but the filing still requires a legal land description identifying the proposed construction site.",[15,136,137,138,141,142,144],{},"The proposed dugout location is on ",[54,139,140],{},"SE 22-031-14W4",", a quarter section of native grassland in the Special Areas. The rancher enters the quarter section into ",[41,143,118],{"href":117}," to confirm the GPS location, then includes the coordinates in the registration filing alongside the DLS description. The map view shows the surrounding terrain and nearby water features that the Water Act registrar will review for cumulative impact assessment.",[15,146,147,148,45],{},"For individual lookups like this one, use the ",[41,149,151],{"href":150},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fquarter-section-finder","quarter section finder",[22,153,155],{"id":154},"provincial-water-licensing-systems","Provincial Water Licensing Systems",[27,157,159],{"id":158},"alberta","Alberta",[15,161,162],{},"Alberta's Water Act framework uses DLS descriptions for all licence and registration locations. The three main filing types are:",[164,165,166,173,179],"ul",{},[167,168,169,172],"li",{},[54,170,171],{},"Water licences",": Required for any diversion of surface water or groundwater above domestic thresholds. The legal land description identifies the point of diversion, the works (intake, pipeline, reservoir), and the area of use.",[167,174,175,178],{},[54,176,177],{},"Traditional agricultural registrations",": For agricultural users who diverted water before 1999. Registered by DLS quarter section.",[167,180,181,184],{},[54,182,183],{},"Temporary diversion licences",": Short-term water use for construction, drilling, or dust suppression. The legal land description identifies both the water source and the project site.",[27,186,188],{"id":187},"british-columbia","British Columbia",[15,190,191,192,194],{},"BC's Water Sustainability Act uses NTS grid references for water source identification in areas outside the DLS grid. The ",[41,193,69],{"href":68}," resolves any NTS map sheet reference to GPS coordinates for field surveys and application maps.",[27,196,198],{"id":197},"saskatchewan","Saskatchewan",[15,200,201,202,206],{},"Saskatchewan's Water Security Agency administers water rights using DLS legal land descriptions. Irrigation allocations, municipal licences, and industrial water rights all reference DLS quarter sections in the W2M and W3M meridian zones. See ",[41,203,205],{"href":204},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fsaskatchewan-quarter-section-guide","Saskatchewan Quarter Section Guide"," for how DLS notation works in that province.",[22,208,210],{"id":209},"how-township-canada-handles-water-resource-workflows","How Township Canada Handles Water Resource Workflows",[15,212,213,216,217,219],{},[54,214,215],{},"Water licence location verification",": Enter any DLS quarter section or LSD from a water licence application to confirm the location maps to the correct watercourse, aquifer, or field. Use the ",[41,218,151],{"href":150}," for individual lookups.",[15,221,222,225,226,228,229,45],{},[54,223,224],{},"Irrigation district mapping",": Convert a full list of irrigated quarter sections to GPS coordinates for annual reporting, allocation reviews, and infrastructure planning. The ",[41,227,92],{"href":91}," handles large lists on a ",[41,230,232],{"href":231},"\u002Fpricing","Business plan",[15,234,235,238,239,241,242,45],{},[54,236,237],{},"BC water licence applications",": Convert NTS grid references from BC water licence filings to GPS coordinates for application maps and field surveys. Use the ",[41,240,69],{"href":68}," or the ",[41,243,244],{"href":63},"NTS to GPS converter",[15,246,247,250,251,253],{},[54,248,249],{},"Municipal intake planning",": Convert the DLS descriptions of proposed intake structures, pipeline routes, and distribution areas to GPS coordinates for engineering drawings and regulatory submissions. Use the ",[41,252,126],{"href":125}," for parcel-level precision.",[15,255,256,259,260,45],{},[54,257,258],{},"Multi-parcel export",": For water resource projects spanning many quarter sections, export GPS results as CSV, KML, or GeoJSON for import into engineering and GIS software. Export formats are available on the ",[41,261,232],{"href":231},[22,263,265],{"id":264},"try-it-with-a-water-licence-location","Try It with a Water Licence Location",[15,267,268,269,272,273,276],{},"Enter ",[54,270,271],{},"NW-18-010-19W4"," into the ",[41,274,275],{"href":117},"Township Canada converter"," to see a quarter section in southern Alberta's irrigation country near the Bow River Irrigation District. The result shows the parcel on the DLS grid with GPS coordinates for the centre and corners, ready for a water licence application form or an irrigation district allocation map.",[15,278,279,280,282,283,285,286,288,289,45],{},"For individual quarter sections, use the ",[41,281,151],{"href":150},". For BC water licence applications using NTS references, try the ",[41,284,69],{"href":68},". For irrigation district lists covering hundreds of parcels, the ",[41,287,92],{"href":91}," processes them all on a ",[41,290,232],{"href":231},{"title":292,"searchDepth":293,"depth":293,"links":294},"",2,[295,300,305,310,311],{"id":24,"depth":293,"text":25,"children":296},[297,299],{"id":29,"depth":298,"text":30},3,{"id":48,"depth":298,"text":49},{"id":73,"depth":293,"text":74,"children":301},[302,303,304],{"id":77,"depth":298,"text":78},{"id":103,"depth":298,"text":104},{"id":130,"depth":298,"text":131},{"id":154,"depth":293,"text":155,"children":306},[307,308,309],{"id":158,"depth":298,"text":159},{"id":187,"depth":298,"text":188},{"id":197,"depth":298,"text":198},{"id":209,"depth":293,"text":210},{"id":264,"depth":293,"text":265},"how-to",null,"How water licence applicants, irrigation districts, and intake planners use DLS and NTS legal land descriptions for Alberta Water Act and BC Water Sustainability Act filings.","md","water-resources",[318,319,320,321,322,323],"water licence legal land description alberta","irrigation district dls coordinates","water diversion registration alberta","bc water licence nts","pfra dugout legal land description","municipal water intake dls",{"system":325},"dls",true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flegal-land-description-for-water-resources",{"title":5,"description":314},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flegal-land-description-for-water-resources","1Eabzknn6uz9uekCpEjbYPV7EQu44uAPV8NCO9JChus",[332,528,773],{"id":333,"title":334,"body":335,"category":313,"createdAt":313,"cta":511,"description":513,"extension":315,"icon":313,"industry":514,"keywords":515,"meta":521,"navigation":326,"path":522,"province":313,"relatedPages":313,"section":312,"seo":523,"stem":524,"systems":525,"updatedAt":313,"__hash__":527},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faafc-crop-history-quarter-section.md","AAFC Crop History: Look Up 5 Years of What's Been Grown on Any Quarter Section",{"type":7,"value":336,"toc":504},[337,341,344,348,356,382,385,389,395,401,411,417,421,424,446,450,469,472,476],[10,338,340],{"id":339},"aafc-crop-history-per-quarter-section","AAFC Crop History per Quarter Section",[15,342,343],{},"Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) publishes a national raster called the Annual Crop Inventory (ACI). Each ~30m pixel carries an integer crop class - canola, spring wheat, soybean, fallow, etc. - for each growing season from 2009 onward. Township Canada aggregates the most recent five years to a per-cell summary and surfaces it on every parcel report.",[22,345,347],{"id":346},"what-the-summary-returns","What the summary returns",[15,349,350,351,355],{},"For any quarter section in Alberta or Saskatchewan, the AAFC crop summary card on ",[352,353,354],"code",{},"\u002Fapp\u002Freport\u002F\u003Clld>\u002Fpdf"," returns:",[164,357,358,364,370,376],{},[167,359,360,363],{},[54,361,362],{},"Dominant crop"," - the crop class that occupies the most acres across the 5-year window",[167,365,366,369],{},[54,367,368],{},"Rotation"," - the year-by-year sequence of dominant crops (e.g., Canola → Wheat → Canola → Lentil → Canola)",[167,371,372,375],{},[54,373,374],{},"Shannon diversity index"," - a 0-1 measure of how varied the rotation is (0 = monoculture, ~1 = even mix of several crops)",[167,377,378,381],{},[54,379,380],{},"Years covered"," - which years are included in the aggregate",[15,383,384],{},"The pipeline reprojects each year's raster, takes the modal crop class per 1km vector cell, and joins to AAFC's published colour table. Coverage extends across Alberta and Saskatchewan; the layer can be toggled as a full map overlay with the Agriculture Bundle.",[22,386,388],{"id":387},"how-to-use-it","How to use it",[15,390,391,394],{},[54,392,393],{},"For farmers checking a new lease."," Before signing, pull the report on the parcel. If the dominant crop is wheat-monoculture for five straight years, that's relevant - both for understanding what came off and for nitrogen\u002Fdisease pressure planning. If the rotation is canola-wheat-canola-wheat, that's a different signal.",[15,396,397,400],{},[54,398,399],{},"For agronomists prepping visits."," A territory of 20 parcels with dominant crop and diversity already in the report lets the agronomist build the visit list around what's actually growing - soybean visits in one cluster, canola in another.",[15,402,403,406,407,45],{},[54,404,405],{},"For carbon project developers."," The Alberta TIER Conservation Cropping protocol requires historical crop history per parcel. The per-parcel AAFC summary serves this directly without a manual GIS query against AAFC's published rasters. See ",[41,408,410],{"href":409},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Fcarbon-credits-legal-land-descriptions","Alberta carbon credits legal land descriptions",[15,412,413,416],{},[54,414,415],{},"For investors underwriting a portfolio."," Dominant crop and diversity across 60 candidate parcels give a quick read on intensification level - high-canola, low-diversity portfolios behave differently than mixed grain-pulse-oilseed portfolios in price-shock years.",[22,418,420],{"id":419},"whats-not-in-the-summary","What's not in the summary",[15,422,423],{},"A few clarifications:",[164,425,426,433,439],{},[167,427,428,429,432],{},"It's ",[54,430,431],{},"modal per pixel, then aggregated"," - a quarter section that grew canola on 60% and wheat on 40% reports canola as dominant, not \"60% canola \u002F 40% wheat.\" The parcel-level acreage breakdown is in the underlying data; the surfaced summary picks a single dominant.",[167,434,428,435,438],{},[54,436,437],{},"observed, not declared."," AAFC ACI is satellite-derived; what gets reported is what the imagery sees. A canola crop that failed in May and got reseeded to oats may show as oats; an unseeded fallow shows as fallow.",[167,440,441,442,445],{},"The rotation is ",[54,443,444],{},"chronological",", not most-recent-first. Year 5 (oldest) → Year 1 (newest).",[22,447,449],{"id":448},"coverage","Coverage",[164,451,452,458,463],{},[167,453,454,457],{},[54,455,456],{},"Alberta:"," full coverage",[167,459,460,457],{},[54,461,462],{},"Saskatchewan:",[167,464,465,468],{},[54,466,467],{},"Manitoba, BC, Ontario:"," partial; AAFC publishes for the agricultural land base only",[15,470,471],{},"See the AAFC layer reference for the data pipeline.",[22,473,475],{"id":474},"related","Related",[164,477,478,484,493,498],{},[167,479,480],{},[41,481,483],{"href":482},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Flsrs-soil-productivity-score","LSRS Soil Productivity Score",[167,485,486],{},[41,487,489,490],{"href":488},"\u002Fapp\u002Freport\u002FSE-14-29-21-W2\u002Fpdf","Parcel report at ",[352,491,492],{},"\u002Fapp\u002Freport\u002F[lld]\u002Fpdf",[167,494,495],{},[41,496,497],{"href":409},"Alberta Carbon Credits Legal Land Descriptions",[167,499,500],{},[41,501,503],{"href":502},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsaskatchewan-quarter-section-guide-grain-farmers-scic-filers","Saskatchewan Quarter Section Guide for Grain Farmers",{"title":292,"searchDepth":293,"depth":293,"links":505},[506,507,508,509,510],{"id":346,"depth":293,"text":347},{"id":387,"depth":293,"text":388},{"id":419,"depth":293,"text":420},{"id":448,"depth":293,"text":449},{"id":474,"depth":293,"text":475},{"label":512,"href":488},"Pull a parcel report","AAFC's Annual Crop Inventory shows dominant crop per pixel since 2009. Township Canada aggregates it to a 5-year rolling per-quarter summary with rotation and diversity score.","agriculture",[516,517,518,519,520],"aafc crop history","crop history quarter section","what was grown on this parcel","aafc annual crop inventory","5 year crop rotation lookup",{},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faafc-crop-history-quarter-section",{"title":334,"description":513},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faafc-crop-history-quarter-section",[526],"DLS","ncSOXlnlIbLB260x6dxux93Ai-83JNCWwJmvD3dT_C4",{"id":529,"title":530,"body":531,"category":313,"createdAt":313,"cta":758,"description":760,"extension":315,"icon":313,"industry":761,"keywords":762,"meta":767,"navigation":326,"path":768,"province":158,"relatedPages":313,"section":312,"seo":769,"stem":770,"systems":771,"updatedAt":313,"__hash__":772},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-facilities-eight-categories.md","AER Facilities Map: 8 Categories from 40+ Petrinex Sub-codes",{"type":7,"value":532,"toc":750},[533,537,540,544,655,662,666,669,672,676,682,688,694,700,704,707,709,722,724],[10,534,536],{"id":535},"aer-facilities-map-8-customer-facing-categories","AER Facilities Map - 8 Customer-Facing Categories",[15,538,539],{},"The AER's ST102 facilities dataset lists every licensed midstream and processing facility in Alberta - batteries, gas plants, compressor stations, disposal wells, custom treaters, terminals, water source wells. The raw dataset uses 40+ Petrinex sub-codes for fine-grained facility typing. Township Canada collapses these into eight customer-facing buckets so the data catalog UI stays readable and the icons mean something visually.",[22,541,543],{"id":542},"the-eight-categories","The eight categories",[545,546,547,563],"table",{},[548,549,550],"thead",{},[551,552,553,557,560],"tr",{},[554,555,556],"th",{},"Category",[554,558,559],{},"Petrinex sub-codes covered",[554,561,562],{},"What it represents",[564,565,566,578,589,600,611,622,633,644],"tbody",{},[551,567,568,572,575],{},[569,570,571],"td",{},"Battery",[569,573,574],{},"Multi-well, single-well, group, oil sands batteries",[569,576,577],{},"Crude\u002Fmultiphase production facility - typically the first downstream point from wells",[551,579,580,583,586],{},[569,581,582],{},"Gas plant",[569,584,585],{},"Gas processing, sweet, sour, dehydration",[569,587,588],{},"Gas treatment \u002F processing",[551,590,591,594,597],{},[569,592,593],{},"Compressor",[569,595,596],{},"Compressor station, booster, gathering compressor",[569,598,599],{},"Pressure-boosting along the gas transport path",[551,601,602,605,608],{},[569,603,604],{},"Disposal",[569,606,607],{},"Acid gas disposal, water disposal, salt cavern, deep well",[569,609,610],{},"Sub-surface disposal of produced water, acid gas, etc.",[551,612,613,616,619],{},[569,614,615],{},"Custom treating",[569,617,618],{},"Custom-treating facility",[569,620,621],{},"Third-party processing for non-operator volumes",[551,623,624,627,630],{},[569,625,626],{},"Terminal",[569,628,629],{},"Pipeline terminal, truck terminal, rail terminal",[569,631,632],{},"Crude\u002Fcondensate transfer and storage",[551,634,635,638,641],{},[569,636,637],{},"Water source",[569,639,640],{},"Water source wells, fresh water facilities",[569,642,643],{},"Source of water for industrial use (frac, injection)",[551,645,646,649,652],{},[569,647,648],{},"Other",[569,650,651],{},"Anything not in the above (typically rare or unusual facility types)",[569,653,654],{},"Catch-all",[15,656,657,658,661],{},"The category mapping lives in ",[352,659,660],{},"app.categorize_facility()"," on the database. Updates land alongside AER ST102 publication cycles.",[22,663,665],{"id":664},"how-the-map-renders","How the map renders",[15,667,668],{},"Each category gets a distinct icon style on the map, sized to be readable at zoom 8 (province scale) without overcrowding. Labels use the facility name; clicking a facility opens a popover with the licensee, status, full Petrinex sub-code, and DLS legal description.",[15,670,671],{},"The layer is part of the Energy Bundle data catalog. Toggle it on alongside AER Wells and AER Pipelines for the full midstream view.",[22,673,675],{"id":674},"use-cases","Use cases",[15,677,678,681],{},[54,679,680],{},"Operators evaluating new tie-in options"," - Batteries and compressors near a proposed wellsite are the candidate destinations for new pipeline. The 8-category breakdown lets you filter to just the relevant facility types in a single click.",[15,683,684,687],{},[54,685,686],{},"Custom treaters and water source operators identifying coverage gaps"," - toggling just the Custom Treating or Water Source categories surfaces the geographic distribution; useful for siting new capacity.",[15,689,690,693],{},[54,691,692],{},"Acid gas disposal planning"," - the Disposal category surfaces existing acid gas disposal wells; new injection projects need to evaluate proximity to existing infrastructure for risk assessment.",[15,695,696,699],{},[54,697,698],{},"Closure obligation analysts"," - facilities follow a similar lifecycle to wells (active, suspended, abandoned, reclamation-certified). The lifecycle filter applies here too.",[22,701,703],{"id":702},"why-the-categorization-is-worth-the-work","Why the categorization is worth the work",[15,705,706],{},"A raw dump of all 40+ Petrinex sub-codes produces an unreadable map - the icon set has too many similar-looking types and customers spend time figuring out what each one means rather than acting on the data. The 8-bucket model maps to how operators actually think about midstream infrastructure: where does the production go (battery), how does it get processed (gas plant, custom treating), how is it moved (compressor, terminal), and what's the disposal pattern (disposal).",[22,708,449],{"id":448},[164,710,711,716],{},[167,712,713,715],{},[54,714,456],{}," full AER ST102 coverage",[167,717,718,721],{},[54,719,720],{},"Saskatchewan, BC:"," covered through the unified Facilities layer alongside Alberta",[22,723,475],{"id":474},[164,725,726,732,738,744],{},[167,727,728],{},[41,729,731],{"href":730},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-wells-lifecycle-status","AER Wells Lifecycle Status",[167,733,734],{},[41,735,737],{"href":736},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-pipelines-map","AER Pipelines Map",[167,739,740],{},[41,741,743],{"href":742},"\u002Ffor\u002Foil-and-gas","Township Canada for Oil and Gas Operators",[167,745,746],{},[41,747,749],{"href":748},"\u002Fuse-cases\u002Fenergy","Energy use case overview",{"title":292,"searchDepth":293,"depth":293,"links":751},[752,753,754,755,756,757],{"id":542,"depth":293,"text":543},{"id":664,"depth":293,"text":665},{"id":674,"depth":293,"text":675},{"id":702,"depth":293,"text":703},{"id":448,"depth":293,"text":449},{"id":474,"depth":293,"text":475},{"label":759,"href":742},"See the Energy Bundle","Township Canada collapses AER ST102 facility sub-codes into 8 clean categories (battery, gas plant, compressor, disposal, etc.) so the catalog UI stays readable across the full Alberta dataset.","oil-and-gas",[763,764,765,766],"aer facilities map alberta","aer st102 facilities","battery gas plant compressor map","alberta oil gas facility types",{},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-facilities-eight-categories",{"title":530,"description":760},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-facilities-eight-categories",[526],"-dR59IylhQn8zEUM5MsJTlr6lcv4Mry5vbBWdP7VNss",{"id":774,"title":775,"body":776,"category":313,"createdAt":313,"cta":939,"description":940,"extension":315,"icon":313,"industry":761,"keywords":941,"meta":946,"navigation":326,"path":736,"province":158,"relatedPages":313,"section":312,"seo":947,"stem":948,"systems":949,"updatedAt":313,"__hash__":950},"learn\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-pipelines-map.md","AER Pipelines Map: Visualize Alberta Oil and Gas Pipelines on the DLS Grid",{"type":7,"value":777,"toc":932},[778,781,784,788,812,819,823,829,835,841,847,853,857,860,880,882,899,906,908],[10,779,737],{"id":780},"aer-pipelines-map",[15,782,783],{},"Alberta has roughly half a million kilometres of licensed pipeline distributed across natural gas, crude oil, multiphase, water disposal, fuel gas, and CO2 service. Every segment is licensed by the Alberta Energy Regulator and tracked by start\u002Fend DLS legal land descriptions. Township Canada renders the full network as a line layer on the same map as wells, facilities, and parcels.",[22,785,787],{"id":786},"what-the-layer-shows","What the layer shows",[164,789,790,796,806],{},[167,791,792,795],{},[54,793,794],{},"Line geometry"," for every AER-licensed pipeline segment",[167,797,798,801,802,805],{},[54,799,800],{},"Mid-point label points"," computed via ",[352,803,804],{},"ST_LineInterpolatePoint"," - drops the label at the centre of each segment so the line layer stays readable at low zoom",[167,807,808,811],{},[54,809,810],{},"Stack ordering"," with the line beneath label points so the geometry stays visible when labels are toggled",[15,813,814,815,818],{},"The PMTiles for the pipeline layer use ",[352,816,817],{},"--coalesce-densest-as-needed"," to keep southern-Alberta tile sizes manageable. In central-southwest Alberta where the density is highest (5000+ segments per township in a few areas), the PMTiles pipeline collapses adjacent segments at low zoom so the visual stays legible.",[22,820,822],{"id":821},"use-cases-by-role","Use cases by role",[15,824,825,828],{},[54,826,827],{},"Operators planning new gathering infrastructure"," - toggle the pipelines layer to see existing tie-in candidates near a proposed wellsite. Cross-reference with the AER Facilities layer (battery, gas plant, compressor, etc.) to identify the actual destination points.",[15,830,831,834],{},[54,832,833],{},"Integrity teams"," - for a planned ILI (in-line inspection) campaign, the layer shows the segments to schedule against. The mid-point labels make it straightforward to identify named lines from the map view.",[15,836,837,840],{},[54,838,839],{},"Right-of-way planning"," - for a new pipeline corridor, the existing network lets the engineering team identify parallel-routing opportunities (sharing existing ROW corridors saves environmental assessment time) and proximity conflicts.",[15,842,843,846],{},[54,844,845],{},"M&A diligence"," - when evaluating an acquisition target's infrastructure footprint, the pipelines layer plus the AER Wells layer plus the BA licensee snapshot API give a full picture without round-tripping the AER directives portal.",[15,848,849,852],{},[54,850,851],{},"Surface-rights holders"," - when a pipeline crosses your land, knowing the licensee and the line ID is the first step to engaging on integrity, leak history, or right-of-way maintenance.",[22,854,856],{"id":855},"combining-with-other-layers","Combining with other layers",[15,858,859],{},"The pipelines layer is most useful in combination:",[164,861,862,868,874],{},[167,863,864,867],{},[54,865,866],{},"+ Wells layer"," - shows which wells are tied into which lines; especially relevant for shut-in or suspended wells where the gathering infrastructure remains",[167,869,870,873],{},[54,871,872],{},"+ Facilities layer"," - shows the destination batteries, gas plants, and compressors that the lines connect to",[167,875,876,879],{},[54,877,878],{},"+ Crown dispositions overlay (planned)"," - shows the surface dispositions (PIL, LOC) that license the right-of-way",[22,881,449],{"id":448},[164,883,884,889],{},[167,885,886,888],{},[54,887,456],{}," full AER coverage",[167,890,891,893,894,898],{},[54,892,720],{}," now covered through the unified Pipelines layer - see the ",[41,895,897],{"href":896},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmulti-province-energy-map-western-canada","multi-province energy map across western Canada"," for how Province, Substance, Type, and Status filters work across provinces",[15,900,901,902,905],{},"The pipeline layer ships as part of the Energy Bundle. See the ",[41,903,904],{"href":748},"Energy use case page"," for the full layer set.",[22,907,475],{"id":474},[164,909,910,914,919,922,926],{},[167,911,912],{},[41,913,731],{"href":730},[167,915,916],{},[41,917,918],{"href":896},"Multi-province energy map - Wells, Pipelines, Facilities across AB, SK, BC, MB",[167,920,921],{},"Wells data layer reference",[167,923,924],{},[41,925,743],{"href":742},[167,927,928],{},[41,929,931],{"href":930},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdls-tools-alberta-well-closure","DLS Tools for Alberta Well Closure",{"title":292,"searchDepth":293,"depth":293,"links":933},[934,935,936,937,938],{"id":786,"depth":293,"text":787},{"id":821,"depth":293,"text":822},{"id":855,"depth":293,"text":856},{"id":448,"depth":293,"text":449},{"id":474,"depth":293,"text":475},{"label":759,"href":742},"Township Canada renders every AER-licensed pipeline as a line layer with mid-point labels. For operators, integrity teams, and right-of-way planning.",[942,943,944,945],"aer pipelines map alberta","alberta pipeline gis layer","oil gas pipelines dls","pipeline integrity mapping",{},{"title":775,"description":940},"learn\u002Fhow-to\u002Faer-pipelines-map",[526],"_SFdxPuAsanHDDtgmB7lzISQyJs5NPIntn3jzVBZIms"]