The Alberta Lake Management Society (ALMS) has issued two summary reports on the condition of many of the recreational lakes in the province.
The LakeWatch summary of data from the standard protocol testing of Sylvan Lake showed the lake to be in a low-nutrient oligotrophic condition with favorable water quality for recreational use in 2016 as we also reported at the time.
A separate ALMS LakeWatch report on a subset of five lakes in the Red Deer River watershed, compares Sylvan Lake to these popular destinations: Buffalo Lake, Burnstick Lake, Chestermere Lake, and Gull Lake.
Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society 