The Sylvan Lake watershed includes about 150 square kilometres of land and water that need the attention of the community. State of the Watershed Update Two summary reports compiled by the Alberta Lake Management Society included Sylvan Lake water quality data collected during our 2016 campaign. Because of the low nutrient concentrations, which are …
Flipside Kids Learn About Water Quality
This Sylvan Lake News story was published in the April 20 edition: Children involved in the drop-in programs at the Flipside Youth Centre were taught some things about that big body of water at the north end of town, on April 13. President Graeme Strathdee and Director-at-Large Susan Samson of the Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society gave …
Status Report on Sylvan Lake Water Quality in 2016
This is an interim report on the results of Sylvan Lake water quality sampling between May and September 2016. Previous posts have illustrated the joint SLWSS-ALMS project in action on the high seas. The teamwork of ALMS lake technician Breda Muldoon, able crew members from the SLWSS, and boat captain Ed Thiessen of Norglenwold allowed …
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Sylvan Lake Precipitation and Stormwater Runoff in 2015
How much precipitation has fallen on the watershed in 2015? Has is been lower, higher or about average? The answer, according to data from Alberta Agriculture's Hespero weather station west of Sylvan Lake we have received just about the typical historical amount. This graph shows the 2015 cumulative precipitation (red) compared to the average curves …
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Heavy Rains Erode Soil and Contaminate Sylvan Lake
Recent heavy rains have caused erosion of construction sites in the Town of Sylvan Lake (TSL) and transported fine particulates into the lake through the stormwater system and Golf Course Creek. The flow discharges into Marina Bay and then into the lake as a plume of very fine suspended solids that cause water quality to …
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Who’s putting all that CO2 into the air?
NASA's mission team for the recently launched OCO-2 satellite has reported preliminary results on its performance and on observations of the atmosphere at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco . The goal is to map carbon dioxide concentration in the vertical column of air between the ground and the OCO-2 satellite, and to detect sources …
The Level of Sylvan Lake Today Is…….
Click here to view the level of Sylvan Lake and the trend as evaporation takes over after July 1. Lake level data are logged continuously and reported on that Alberta Environment web page. Can you calculate how much water is lost daily at this time of year?
