The Fall 2019 Newsletter has been published on the website.
You can read it here: https://steenburglake.info/newsletter
We would encourage members that still receive printed copies delivered to their homes to consider going electronic. Let’s all work towards saving our trees.
The Ontario Provincial Police is reporting that off-road crashes have resulted in 20 fatalities in the province so far this year, up from 17 at this time in 2018. We spoke to Sgt. Dave Moffatt, the off-road vehicle coordinator for the OPP, for some perspective.
The latest monthly bulletin about Great Lakes water levels, recently released by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, is predicting what many who live, cottage, and work on the lakes will not be happy to hear.
While all the lakes are expected to decline over the winter season, as they typically do, “over the next several months it’s predicted that water levels will remain well above average,” says the report. Levels that are higher than average in April, when the lakes begin to rise again because of precipitation and runoff from spring snowmelt, are an indication that 2020 could be another high-water year.
The USACE’s six-month forecast gives a range of possible outcomes, and since much depends on the amount of precipitation we receive, the lakes may not actually reach or exceed this year’s record levels.
If the trend of more spring and summer rainfall continues, however, as Environment and Climate Change Canada has predicted, higher-than-average water levels will likely occur next year and in the years to come. According to ECCC’s Canada’s Changing Climate Report, annual precipitation in Ontario, for example, increased by 9.7 per cent over the latter half of the 20th century and is projected to continue to increase in the current century.
Your SLCA website has been redesigned to not only give it a fresh new look, but to support a wide range of platforms such as mobile devices. It is also more secure and now provides a members only area.
One more perk for being an SLCA member.
Thank you Anthony for all the hard work.
ATTENTION SOUTH ROAD: The townships issued a letter regarding the culvert replacement.
Please be advised that the Township of Tudor and Cashel intends to replace a culvert in the vicinity of 620 and 624 South Steenburg Lake Road on Monday November 18th, 2019.
If weather does not permit the work to commence on Monday November 18th, 2019, then it will take place on the next day Tuesday November 19, 2019.
The replacement will require the road to be closed between 8 a.m. and 6:00 p.m for two consecutive days, with traffic being opened back up to public in the evening.
