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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …