Frequently Asked Questions

HydroScout is a decision-support and spatial analytics engine designed for energy landmen, agricultural water brokers, and environmental consultants evaluating water rights transfers under Section 81 of the Alberta Water Act within the South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB).

Yes — for allocations resting on shared irrigation works. When a scan location falls within a recognized district — BRID (Bow River), SMRID (St. Mary River), TID (Taber), or EID (Eastern) — HydroScout flags "Board Approval Required for S.81 Transfer" directly on the WSC canal gauge so you can factor district-governed approval risk into due diligence before committing to a transfer.

Under Section 83 of the Alberta Water Act, the Director may apply a statutory holdback of up to 10% for aquatic protection. HydroScout calculates net yield as: Net Volume = Gross Volume × (1 − 0.10).

A 10% Crown retainage is deducted from every transferred allocation volume for aquatic environment protection. The math is applied automatically in every export: statutory_holdback_m3 = gross_volume × 0.10 and net_transferable_m3 = gross_volume × 0.90. Briefs that are exempt from the holdback (Water Amendment Act transfers) use a 0% retainage instead.

A Regional Sub-Basin Screening Summary reflects the full 20 km spatial scan and all allocations returned by the query — used for broad basin reconnaissance. A Section 81 Transfer Feasibility Brief is strictly scoped to the rows you check in the allocation matrix: its Executive Summary recomputes total allocations, gross volume, the 10% S.83 holdback, and net transferable volume ONLY over the selected rows, so it never leaks surrounding scan totals into an individualized brief.

Water licence allocations are synced weekly with Alberta Open Government records. Hydrometric gauge discharge data streams directly from Water Survey of Canada (WSC) sensors refreshed at 15-to-60-minute intervals.

Live WSC hydrometric data is pulled from Water Survey of Canada on every spatial scan and refreshed continuously during an active session, synchronizing at 15-to-60-minute intervals to track streamflow, gauge stage, and canal discharge. Capacity utilization bars are computed from the most recent reading against each canal’s design capacity.

Unstructured licence conditions are processed using DeepSeek LLM workers to extract transfer restrictions into structured JSON, cached directly in PostgreSQL.

Water licence allocations are synced weekly with Alberta Open Government records. Hydrometric gauge discharge data streams directly from Water Survey of Canada (WSC) sensors refreshed at 15-to-60-minute intervals.

Unstructured licence conditions are processed using DeepSeek LLM workers to extract transfer restrictions into structured JSON, cached directly in PostgreSQL.

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