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 Water Quality Sampling Campaign in 2018

We have sampled Sylvan Lake three times in 2018, once each in June, July and August in a joint research project with the Alberta Lake Management Society. A video and two photo albums for July 10 and August 14 show how instrumental measurements were made at the deep water station, ten water column samples were …

Sylvan Lake Sub-Basin Groundwater Modeling by the AER-AGS Top Gun Team

This graphic from a recent Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) analysis of the groundwater supply in the Sylvan Lake region shows that the Sylvan Lake watershed is in a rare Red zone signifying high risk to Safe Yield of water supply. Sylvan Lake is located roughly at 52oN, 114oW: The Alberta Geological Survey groundwater modeling team …

Sylvan Lake Stewardship News – May 2018

Water Quality Sampling Campaign 2018 We have arranged with the Alberta Lake Management Society (ALMS) to monitor the water quality of Sylvan Lake once again. Our main interest is in the plant nutrient concentrations that control the growth of cyanobacteria and algae that can lead to unpopular algal blooms. The Society will be the local …

Sylvan Lake Level 2018

The Environment Canada real-time hydrometric sensor is online for 2018 and transmitting lake level measurements from the Sylvan Lake marina station 05CC003. This graph shows the change in lake level between May 1 and September 3, 2018. The historical median lake level on September 1 is about 936.78 metres above sea level. The lake level was …

Spring into Action: Your Healthy Lake Lawn Reminder

Upgrade your lake shore landscape especially if it is rated as impaired. Here is helpful advice from the Pigeon Lake Watershed Association The International Plant Nutrition Institute offers free advice for all plants. Use the search box to request information for your landscape project.         A healthy-lake lawn is about the roots and …

Tour of the NW End of Sylvan Lake to Check the State of Spring Runoff.

The eagle is back in its nest high in a tree on the south edge of the Sylvan Lake Natural Area. Here is a photo album of a driving tour of the Northwest Creek catchment including manure-rich feedlots, evidence of spring runoff, but no flow in the creek itself on May 13. The whole area …