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Open data · A weekendNewfoundland and Labrador· Source · Oct 2026

Developers can't get a working, machine-readable list of current boil water advisories in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Residents of communities under boil water advisories, and the apps and newsrooms that report them

Where it stands

  1. Sourced (done)
  2. Kit (done)
  3. Wanted (next)
  4. Building
  5. Solved

How this problem came to be

  1. Found3 sourcesopendata.gov.nl.ca, maps.gov.nl.ca
  2. Quoted4 claimseach checked against its page
  3. BriefWrittenand what solved looks like
  4. MarketNot sizedon the next engine run
  5. Kit5 steps21 tools · 6 routes
  6. People0 want0 live it · 0 would test

The problem, broken down

Who it hurts
People building alert apps, maps or news tools for communities under boil water advisories.
The moment
When someone wants to be told the day an advisory starts or ends for their community.
What people do today
The open data file no longer downloads; the current list is a report in the Water Resources Portal's viewer.
Why it's unsolved
The portal's report runs in a viewer with an export menu, not at a fixed file address a program can fetch on a schedule.
What solved looks like
A public CSV, JSON and RSS feed of current advisories (community, water system, date issued, reason), updated daily by a scheduled job from the portal's report, keeping each day's snapshot so advisory lengths can be worked out. Checked against the portal's report on 10 different days.

Evidence

Every claim is tied to the source it comes from
Open Data NL: Boil Water Advisories dataset (observed 2026-10-09) ↗
  1. 1On 2026-10-09 the Boil Water Advisories dataset page said data is uploaded to Open Data each business day by 10am, but its only file showed a revision date of 2019-12-11.
  2. 2On 2026-10-09 the dataset's CSV download link returned the text ‘File does not exist.’
NL Water Resources Portal (observed 2026-10-09) ↗
  1. 3On 2026-10-09 the Water Resources Portal linked a ‘Current Boil Advisories’ report that opens in a report viewer offering CSV and Excel export from its menu.
Open Data NL: tabular dataset catalogue (observed 2026-10-09) ↗
  1. 4On 2026-10-09 the open data tabular catalogue listed 71 datasets; the most recent ‘Date Modified’ shown was 2023-12-22, and 47 were last modified before 2020.

Written from the cited sources. Anything they don't say is left as a question, not a guess.

Sources

From a public page with a citation.

  1. [1]NL Water Resources Portal (observed 2026-10-09)
  2. [2]Open Data NL: Boil Water Advisories dataset (observed 2026-10-09)
  3. [3]Open Data NL: tabular dataset catalogue (observed 2026-10-09)
What the source says, in short

On 2026-10-09 the Boil Water Advisories dataset page said data is uploaded to Open Data each business day by 10am, but its only file showed a revision date of 2019-12-11. On 2026-10-09 the dataset's CSV download link returned the text ‘File does not exist.’ On 2026-10-09 the Water Resources Portal linked a ‘Current Boil Advisories’ report that opens in a report viewer offering CSV and Excel export from its menu. On 2026-10-09 the open data tabular catalogue listed 71 datasets; the most recent ‘Date Modified’ shown was 2023-12-22, and 47 were last modified before 2020.

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