Lake Water Levels

At the Leech Lake Cottagers Association annual meeting, June 29, 2008, Larry Jacobs, representing the lake water quality committee, made a presentation on water quality on our lake. In his preamble Larry commented about the runoff from the deluge of rain we had the evening before the meeting. Larry stated he felt that, after researching the Muskoka District’s position on watershed management, we could probably expect higher water levels for the next few years.

Craig Bushinski took exception to the statement about the Muskoka watershed management. Craig has researched the Muskoka District’s report on watershed management and does not find any evidence of allowing increased water levels.

Craig has been so good as to provide web sites for all of us to reference. The second and third url’s are the actual MNR reports. There are some interesting statistics about water levels and management of same. I am a little confused about the first url as it seems to be a search engine capability for Ontario Government documents and not a statistical report.
http://govdocs.ourontario.ca/results?fsu=Muskoka+River+Watershed+(Ont.)
http://www.ontla.on.ca/library/repository/mon/7000/10316439.pdf http://www.ontla.on.ca/library/repository/mon/7000/10316437.pdf