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The Public Record of the Society
The Society is well known in the Watershed community by our presentations at stewardship events in the last decade. Click on the links to learn more. Yesterday Today and Tomorrow-ASN-2010 Living by Water at Sylvan Lake-RDRWA-2010 Protecting Sylvan Lake-ALMS-2011 Making Watershed Decisions-RDRWA-2012 What We Need-Stewards in Motion-2013 Stewardship at Sylvan Lake-RD Rotary-2014 Golf Course Creek …
Responsible Care of Watersheds
Dr. Judy Stewart, an expert on municipal law and the environment has recently published a paper that addresses her title question "Do recent amendments to Alberta's Municipal Government Act enable management of surface water resources and air quality?" The SLWSS has demonstrated how watershed management could be improved by adoption of the principles of the …
The Sylvan Lake Water Quality Sampling Campaign in 2018
We have sampled Sylvan Lake three times in 2018, once each in June, July and August in a joint research project with the Alberta Lake Management Society. A video and two photo albums for July 10 and August 14 show how instrumental measurements were made at the deep water station, ten water column samples were …
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Sylvan Lake Sub-Basin Groundwater Modeling by the AER-AGS Top Gun Team
This graphic from a recent Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) analysis of the groundwater supply in the Sylvan Lake region shows that the Sylvan Lake watershed is in a rare Red zone signifying high risk to Safe Yield of water supply. Sylvan Lake is located roughly at 52oN, 114oW: The Alberta Geological Survey groundwater modeling team …
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Sylvan Lake Precipitation 2018
This graph shows the precipitation history recorded by the Alberta Agriculture weather station at Hespero, west of Sylvan Lake from Jan 1 to September 3, 2018. We assume that those observations are representative of those for our watershed as it is the closest station, and generally upwind: The early-season deficit is about 8 cm. …
Sylvan Lake Stewardship News – May 2018
Water Quality Sampling Campaign 2018 We have arranged with the Alberta Lake Management Society (ALMS) to monitor the water quality of Sylvan Lake once again. Our main interest is in the plant nutrient concentrations that control the growth of cyanobacteria and algae that can lead to unpopular algal blooms. The Society will be the local …
Sylvan Lake Level 2018
The Environment Canada real-time hydrometric sensor is online for 2018 and transmitting lake level measurements from the Sylvan Lake marina station 05CC003. This graph shows the change in lake level between May 1 and September 3, 2018. The historical median lake level on September 1 is about 936.78 metres above sea level. The lake level was …
