The Society has joined the Monty Python parrot. Story published in the Sylvan Lake News on August 12, 2021
Well Water Quality in the Sylvan Lake Watershed
The Alberta Health well water database is now accessible online. It contains records for 71,698 Alberta wells that were submitted for analysis since 2002 by private well owners. Click on this link to reach the homepage of the website. A tutorial is presented to coach viewers on its use. Following are some screen capture views of …
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Report on the RDRWA’s Winter Lake Day Meeting at Gull Lake
Nicole Kimmel from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry reported on the spread of the invasive Flowering Rush aquatic plant that has been observed in water bodies near Sylvan Lake. Additional advice is posted on the department's website: Aquatic invasive weeds from Environment & parks website Respect our lakes highlights vegetation removal and approvals Don’t Let it …
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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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The Sylvan Lake Groundwater Project
It's still just a $1.5 million proposal, but it's been submitted, and the groundwater modeling teams at the Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) and the top-gun Dutch groundwater consultancy Deltares are hoping that funding will be provided by the Alberta Innovates-Energy and Environment Solutions program in the competition category of Water Technology. Applications must be filed by …
RDRWA’s Lake Days held at Sylvan Lake on Friday July 24
The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance held its “Lake Days” event on the pier at Sylvan Lake on Friday, July 24. The goal of Lake Days was to engage the general public with key issues that affect the lakes of the Red Deer River watershed and assist other groups in their efforts to improve the water quality of …
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Nutrient Beneficial Management Practices for Agriculture
About 70% of the Sylvan Lake watershed land is used for agriculture. So water that runs off the land can carry with it dissolved and suspended agricultural residues into the lake. SLWSS and other studies of the composition of streams that discharge into Sylvan Lake confirm that nutrient levels, nitrogen and phosphorus in particular, are always above …
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Keep Nutrients on the Land……..Not in the Lake
Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AB Ag) research on nutrient transport has evolved over two decades is relevant to the situation in the Sylvan Lake watershed. About 67% of the land area within the watershed boundary is used for agriculture. Those uses are also diffuse sources of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) nutrients as a result of the cycle of growth …
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Empowering Municipalities for Environmental Management
This text is extracted from the Environmental Law Centre's website; 6/16/2014 It is the ELC’s view that municipalities have the potential to play a pivotal role in environmental management and protection in Alberta. Municipalities have the authority to control and regulate many private land uses. As well, municipalities have the responsibility for engaging in local land …
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The Central Alberta Recreational Lakes Initiative
Representatives of the Central Alberta Recreational Lakes (CARL) and many supporting organizations have an exclusive club that meets annually to discuss the status of local environments and to learn about issues that affect lake and watershed health. For an introduction to CARL, see this website that is maintained by Alberta's Environment and Sustainable Resources Development department staff. …
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