As we develop lake management plans on Balsam, Cameron and Sturgeon lakes, we want to hear what's important to you.

Click here to complete an online survey.

Many thanks to everyone who had a chance to attend one of the recent open houses and provided feedback. There were over 170 people who attended on October 24 & 25, and November 2, in Bobcaygeon, Lindsay and Fenelon Falls.

We appreciated the remarks from City of Kawartha Lakes representatives, including Mayor Ric McGee, Councillor Brian Junkin, Councillor Pat Warren, and Councillor Doug Elmslie.

At each session, we provided an overview of lake management planning, profiling everyone who is involved, the scientific studies and early stewardship actions underway, and how we will complete the plans.

Mayor Ric McGee provides opening remarks at the Lake Management Planning open house on October 25, 2011 at Ops Community Centre, Lindsay.

A special thanks to the guest presenters. In Bobcaygeon, Mike Rawson from the Ministry of Natural Resources talked about fish populations, pointing out the challenges to Walleye and the opportunities for catching Black Crappie.

Roger Stanley from Trent-Severn Waterway answered many questions from the audience in Lindsay. He talked about the different things that can influence water levels. Did you know that lakes in this region can lose 1 centimeter of water each day to evaporation during the summer?

Then in Fenelon Falls, Richard Ovcharovich from the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit provided in-depth information on cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and encouraged each of us to learn how to identify and avoid cyanobacteria, because it can take up to 5 days to get confirmation from a laboratory.

Also, thanks to the Community Advisory Panel members who provided introductions, including Chris Appleton from the Sturgeon Point Association, Mike Stedman from the Kawartha Lake Stewards Association, and Douglas Erlandson from the Balsam Lake Association.

We will be holding more open houses early next summer.

For more on lake management planning, please visit kawarthaconservation.com/cklplans

Comment period on Scugog watershed plans ends Nov. 11 

 

If you live, own property or do business within any of the four watersheds draining from the Oak Ridges Moraine to Lake Scugog (see map below), you may be interested in reviewing and commenting on draft plans completed by Kawartha Conservation for these watersheds. 

 

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The plans, developed in partnership with Durham Region as part of the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan, identify watershed conditions, environmental stresses and threats, and give watershed-wide direction for protecting and sustaining watershed features. They will provide a current information resource for municipalities, consultants, developers, landowners and resource users.

 

As part of the consultations on the plans, more than 40 people attended open houses in Greenbank on November 2 and Nestleton Station on November 3.  

 

If you would like to view and comment on the plans, there is still some time.  

 

Click here to review and comment on the plans. Comments can be received until November 11, 2011. 

For more information, contact Brett Tregunno at btregunno@kawarthaconservation.com or 705.328.2271 ext. 222.