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That report on ground water levels is somewhere on the internet if I am not mistaken as I have seen it. I think it also said that Shell used a lot of water when the St Boniface refinery was in use. Maybe an article on enggeomb.ca?

Also I think on the geo tech reports for the CN Waverly underpass there was mention that there were apartments in the Grant Park area that used ground water for summer cooling and dumped the water into the Winnipeg sewer systems. Apparently the city has increased the charges for that to they converted to closed loop geothermal or dump the water back into the aquifer.

Either way that has also contributed to the slow rise of the ground water levels.