Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship SocietySylvan lake Shoreline in the Fall
Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society
Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society

Definition of Stewardship

SLWSS Photography Contest 2010

Your help is needed in building a photo library that communicates the life around the lake, and what we can do to ensure its future.

We invite you, your family and your friends to participate in our first photo contest! Have fun participating as we are looking forward to many great photographs.

Press Release - Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society
July 8, 2010 Sylvan Lake

The Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society (SLWSS) rejects the proposed Lacombe Area Structure Plan (ASP). The massive County plan for lands surrounding Sylvan Lake creates serious risk to the basin’s clean water and stable lake level. The plan fails to assure Albertans that they will be able to enjoy clear clean water, stable water levels, and a healthy Sylvan Lake watershed ecosystem in the future as they do today. Read the Press Release.... (PDF 11kb)

Analysis of the Lacombe County Area Structure Plan for Sylvan Lake

The SLWSS has analyzed the Area Structure Plan (ASP 2010) for land that surrounds Sylvan Lake and is administered by Lacombe County. Our comments are compiled under categories that represent the priorities of the mission of  the SLWSS to protect Sylvan Lake. In addition to these Society opinions, statements extracted from Lacombe County’s ASP that relate directly to environmental protection concerns and practices are included. Those statements highlight the deficiencies of the Area Structure Plan document. Read the entire analysis... (PDF 64kb)

SLWSS Game Plan for Sylvan Lake

The Sylvan Lake News June 25, 2010 edition carried a front page article by editor Steve Dills about the Society’s call for a comprehensive intermunicipal plan to protect Sylvan Lake. (PDF 214kb) 

At the request of Mayor Susan Samson, SLWSS Board members delivered a Town of Sylvan Lake Briefing (PDF 2.3mb) to the Council of the Town of Sylvan Lake on June 28. 

Lacombe County Area Structure Plan Open House

 The focal point for the Society’s concern is the Area Structure Plan proposed by the County of Lacombe that calls for major development around the north and west shores of Sylvan Lake.

SLWSS members are urged to attend the Lacombe County open house on Saturday, July 10, 2010 at the Sylvan Lake Multiplex. The plan will be presented at 11 AM and 1 PM in the Upper Mezzanine of the Sylvan Lake Multiplex, 4823 48th Street, Town of Sylvan Lake.

LETTER TO GOVERNMENTS
It’s time for Action!

The Sylvan Lake Watershed Stewardship Society (SLWSS) urges all governments that are responsible for our watershed to apply the Alberta Land Stewardship Act to help protect Sylvan Lake water quality. Rezoning and development by the eight municipal jurisdictions in the watershed of Sylvan Lake are imposing new risks on a fragile natural asset. To read the rest of the letter click here.

To contact your local MLA to voice your concern you can click here.

Vision

The Natural Assets and Ecological Integrity of Sylvan Lake and it's watershed are conserved for Alberta's future.

Mission

To protect the Sylvan Lake watershed and it's water quality from damage.

Sylvan Lake is under increasing pressure from a host of forces including human activity and development. The days when we could afford to take our lake’s water quality for granted have passed.

The protection of Sylvan Lake through responsible watershed management is the Society’s focus.

A watershed is similar to a puzzle with many varied pieces. Each piece affects the function of the whole. Even though our individual actions may seem small, collectively they can significantly affect the bigger puzzle-the environmental picture and the many values that the lake provides.