Watch Professor David Schindler's 2010 CBC video interview about Sylvan Lake: Are his predictions still valid today? See the full CBC production here: https://youtu.be/mcH12ZMl3_0
IDP 2020-Water Balance, Water Quantity and Water Quality Data
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 Groundwater Situation in Perspective and Pictures
The Sylvan Lake watershed and its supply of groundwater are dependent on a fine balance between incoming and outgoing water. The net amount is absorbed and stored underground in the soil, porous and permeable geological glacial deposits, and local aquifers and becomes available for domestic and agricultural use. The following ERCB/AGS maps included in this …
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8 metres of precipitation fell on Sylvan Lake but the level hardly changed over 14 years!
The graphical record of precipitation as recorded by Alberta Agriculture for the two townships that contain the Sylvan Lake watershed, plus a decade of lake level data measured by Environment Canada's National Hydrological Service, are compiled here. The surface of the lake received about 8 metres of cumulative precipitation in the period 2000-2016: Between 2000: …
The Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Reports on Alberta
The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) has released a series of reports that can be used to observe changes in land use and environmental variables. See these web pages: Land Cover Human Footprint Map Species Some of the map products will be useful for monitoring of the Sylvan Lake watershed, however the resolution is too …
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Juno Beach Comes to Sylvan Lake
The shoreline of Sylvan Lake is changing as McMansions replace those old time family summer cottages. Architectural, environmental and aesthetic standards seem to be flexible. Living by Water principles that help property owners manage water balance and preserve the riparian zone with recommended low impact development and landscaping standards in some cases have apparently been …
