Webinar on Water Well Management

Clearwater County is presenting this online event: Click here to register: Well Water Management

Watershed Mapping using QGIS Cloud

Click here for an example of GIS technology. See previous GIS-related pages on this SLWSS website: Geographic Information System for the Sylvan Lake Watershed – Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society (wordpress.com) IDP 2020 – Geographic Information System Graphics – Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society (wordpress.com) Do-It-Yourself GIS for Your Watershed – Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship …

Invasive Mussels in Contaminated Moss Balls

ALMS Advisory About Aquarium Moss Balls Do you have a moss ball in your aquarium? If you do, it may be contaminated with invasive mussels. Please check carefully. If you find mussels, please call: 1-855-336-2628 (BOAT). Contaminated moss balls - which are sold at pet and plant stores - have been found in the U.S. …

You are invited to the 2020 Annual General Meeting

The Directors of The Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society Notify and invite our Members, Guests, and Friends To the 2020 Annual General Meeting Date: December 4, Friday Time: 2:00 PM Place: Online Zoom Video Event To link to the 2020 AGM: Join SLWSS AGM Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7393417193?pwd=VGxkTTJMeFFOTGNtSVpvQUV5eTJJZz09 Meeting ID: 739 341 7193 Passcode: JTkF7f https://slwss.org …

Groundwater: A Hidden Part of the Lake Ecosystem

The webinar on groundwater presented by Dr. Brian Smerdon of Alberta Geological Survey is posted on the https://alms.ca website: https://youtu.be/fPr27zPKgoQ The groundwater section starts at about 53 mm 13 ss. His presentation was based in part on this 2018 final Sylvan Lake Subbasin Groundwater modeling report by J.E. Liggett and A. Singh. The report graphics …

Where did all the Sylvan Lake water go?

Bob Dylan must have been thinking about Sylvan Lake when he wrote the lyrics to the song “Blowin’ in the Wind”. Because that line answers the question: “Where did all the Sylvan Lake water go?” A lot of it, about 20 million tonnes per year, 4.8% of the lake volume, just evaporated and blew away …

Sylvan Lake Level in 2019

See the lake level history as monitored by Environment Canada at the station in the WatersEdge Marina harbour. The data may be viewed at this website too: https://rivers.alberta.ca/ The lake level dropped about 0.18 metres over the lake area of about 42 square kilometres. That is a volume decrease of 7.6 million cubic metres, although …

Water Composition and Water Quality of Sylvan Lake

  This slideshow presents three decades of water quality history in pictures. It shows the concentrations of the dissolved and suspended inorganic ions and some organics that are sampled and analyzed in laboratories using standard protocols. Concentrations range over six orders of magnitude, from the key nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus that are measured and reported …

Wind Speed History of Sylvan Lake in 2019

The official Alberta Agriculture weather data recorded at Hespero west of the Sylvan Lake watershed is a reasonable indicator of wind on the lake. The following slideshow compiles and presents about 6500 hourly measurements of wind speed and direction for the period January to September 2019. It includes an expanded record of the two days …

The Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Series 2019

Click on this link to view the Society's report on stewardship issues that affect the Sylvan Lake watershed: The Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Series     The report is a compiled, expanded and edited version of the nine articles that were published in the Sylvan Lake News though the summer of 2019. A PDF copy …