Sylvan Lake Newspaper and Photo Archives

This source of Sylvan Lake history is recommended by Marion Thompson of the Town of Sylvan Lake Archives. Click on this URL to reach the Peel's Prairie Provinces page of the University of Alberta library. Select a tab (Newspapers or Images) and enter the keywords Sylvan Lake to retrieve records from the past. Who remembers the …

Sylvan Lake Water Quality

Sylvan Lake continues to rank in first place among the recreational lakes in Central Alberta because of its high water quality. Please click on the graphic to enlarge it. The lake water is sampled and analyzed periodically by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, by the Alberta Lake Management Society (ALMS) and by the SLWSS. The …

Sylvan Lake Water Level

Alberta's Environment and Sustainable Resource Development website that measures, logs and reports on the Sylvan Lake water level is now displaying data for 2012 now that the ice has melted: Click here for the lake level graph. Check the AESRD website regularly for the continuous updates. The same data are available as either a graph …

Restore the Shoreline

Since shoreline property development started at Sylvan Lake decades ago the riparian zone adjacent to the lake has changed. Government surveys classify much of that zone as "impaired".  Property owners can help to restore some riparian zone functions by looking critically at landscaping and structures with the goal of improving water balance and reducing nutrient …

Sylvan Lake News Articles and Readers’ Views on the Watershed

Steve Dills, Editor of the Sylvan Lake News publishes reports on municipal council meetings and on events and developments that affect the Sylvan Lake watershed. Here are recent SLN articles and letters to the editor: Local residents could benefit from recreation facilities plan County agreed to increased costs for regional lift station Majority agreed with …

The Alberta Environment’s Sylvan Lake Poster

Alberta Environment (now Alberta Environment and Sustainable resource Development) issued a series of posters on the recreational lakes in Central Alberta. This low resolution version of the Sylvan Lake graphic contains useful facts about the watershed: Click on the image to enlarge it. The high resolution 10 MB file for printing posters can be opened …

Ice Fishing Hut Project Presentation

The Sylvan Lake Management Committee (SLMC)  chair Beverly Anderson of Norglenwold and SLMC vice-chair and Mayor Susan Samson of the Town of Sylvan lake championed the "Ice Fishing Hut" project that is summarized in this presentation: Ice Fishing Hut Presentation 2012 Many interested representatives of the watershed municipalities, provincial government agencies, and law enforcement cooperated …

Watershed Report Card Preview

What will the Sylvan Lake watershed look like in the future? Annual reports by the watershed municipalities to Municipal Affairs contain some important population, land use and financial data that can be scaled up to indicate the changes that will occur in the next few decades in the growth projections hold. Baseline data for the …

Future Population of the Watershed

Forecasts of watershed populations by Lacombe County and the Town of Sylvan Lake are combined in this graph: Future Population Projection The Growth Strategy reference document of the Town of Sylvan Lake is posted here. The Lacombe County Area Structure Plan for the Sylvan Lake watershed may be downloaded by clicking here.

Bayview Cafe Pie Baked for Henry Sielmann Farewell

Henry Sielmann joined SLWSS members Kim Schmitt, Graeme Strathdee and Mike Williamson at the Bayview Cafe on May 11. Henry served as a SLWSS director and managed a photography contest, redesigned the website, and started the ice hut project. He also was an active member of the Jazz Society. Sheree Davies, proprietor of the Bayview …