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Enter an Alberta address and select an option.
If searching for a place such as Edmonton, please add Alberta to the search (Edmonton, Alberta) to ensure an Alberta location is found.
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Help finding by Legal Land Description
You will normally see the legal land description written as:
NE-16-74-20-W4 (Quarter Section-Section-Township-Range-Meridian).
This search will narrow the results to the section.
Explanation of Legal Land Description
Meridians are lines of longitude (they run north/south) based on the Dominion Land Survey. In Alberta, they start at 110° West as the 4th Meridian, which runs north/south along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. The 5th Meridian is 114° West running north/south near the centre of the province. The 6th Meridian is 118° West running north/south closer to the north-western border
Township lines run east/west with township 1 starting at the Canada/US Border and increasing every 6 miles north. Valid Township values range from 1 to 126.
Range lines run north/south, starting at 1 at each meridian and increasing every 6 miles west from 1 to 30.
Section numbers start at the southeast corner of a Township (6x6 mile cell) and run from 1 to 36.
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| 30 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
For more information on the Alberta Township System visit the Alberta Township Survey System web page.
Help finding by postal code
Enter an alberta postal code starting with t. an example is t6g 1c8.
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Notice: Temporary Service Interruption for current Water Data on April 28th & 29th.
Please be advised of planned maintenance on our water data system (WISKI) that will impact the availability of current data on the Alberta River Basins (ARB) website on the following dates:
- Monday, April 28, 2025: Outage anticipated from 9:00 AM until late afternoon.
- Tuesday, April 29, 2025: Outage anticipated from 8:00 AM until late evening.
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For each Water Management Area (WMA), the activation of a water shortage advisory is represented by the addition of a purple layer on the website and is a visual indication that low flows are being experienced in water bodies within a WMA. Each water shortage advisory is unique based on the WMA’s attributes related to water supply, flow, risk, and other factors and is typically activated when the following criteria are met:
- For 7 consecutive days the station shows flow under the corresponding instream objective and
- The following 7-day forecast from Environment and Climate Change Canada calls for low to minimal precipitation to occur within the WMA