About Hydrogeo Solutions
Who we are and how hydrogeological studies are arranged through this site.
Estimate your study cost
Hydrogeo Solutions helps property owners, builders and planners in Ontario work out which hydrogeological study they need, what it typically costs and what the municipality or agency will expect from it.
How studies are arranged
We do not carry out studies ourselves. Studies are carried out by independent licensed hydrogeologists and engineers we work with, who scope the work for your site, price it, sign the report and are responsible for it. Our part is to help you identify the right study, give you an indicative cost range, and pass your request to a professional serving your area so it can be scoped and priced.
What the site covers
There is a page for each of the 11 study types, a cost guide with indicative ranges, 29 location pages and 9 guides. The location pages set out what each municipality, region and conservation authority asks for and what the provincial well and permit records show for that place. The guides answer the questions that come before a quote, such as whether a severance needs a study, how long the work takes and who may sign the report.
How the information is checked
- Official sources only. Every regulatory statement names the document it comes from: e-Laws, ministry guidance, municipal terms of reference and by-laws, Official Plans, conservation authority policies and source protection plans. Each page lists its sources, with links and the date each one was checked, at the end of the page. Where a point could not be confirmed from an official source, it is left out.
- Provincial data. Well, permit and boundary figures on the location pages are calculated from the province's open datasets, with the dataset and retrieval date beside them. Our page on how the groundwater data is calculated explains how each figure is worked out and where the records fall short. Numbers in the page text are generated from the same data as the panels, so the two cannot drift apart.
- A quarterly refresh. The data, the source links and the wording they support are rechecked every quarter. Statements that can change between refreshes, such as fees, review times, plans under appeal and wells out of service, are kept on a freshness tracker with a recheck date for each one.
- Estimates. Cost ranges are indicative ranges based on typical scopes. The professional who takes on the study confirms the scope and price.
Corrections
If you spot something out of date, or a requirement has changed in your municipality, please tell us through the contact page, with the page and, if you can, the source. A correction is checked against the official source before the page changes, and the page's review date moves when it does. For a cost range, use the estimator on this page.