Lake System Health Water Quality Monitoring Program 2013 Results. January 23, 2014

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1 Monitoring Muskoka s Water Lake System Health Water Quality Monitoring Program 2013 Results Planning & Economic Development Committee January 23, 2014

2 164 Lakes

3 164 Lakes 193 Sites

4 Monitoring Activities Total Phosphorus & Other Parameters Water Clarity Dissolved Oxygen Temperature Biweekly Monitoring Lake Joseph Shoreline Land Use Surveys Love Your Lake Benthic Macroinvertebrates Terrestrial Plot Monitoring

5 Chemical 2013: 88 Sites on 68 Lakes Seguin * 2 Sites on 2 Lakes Huntsville 9 Sites on 9 Lakes Georgian Bay 11 Sites on 9 Lakes Muskoka Lakes 17 Sites on 11 Lakes Lake of Bays 21 Sites on 15 Lakes Bracebridge 12 Sites on 11 Lakes Gravenhurst 14 Sites on 14 Lakes

6 Figure 2: 2013 Spring Phosphorus Sampling Results Averagee spring phosphorus concentration (µg/l) 0 Ben Bigwind Bonnie Brandy Brooks Bruce Camp Clark Cooper Cornall Dark Deer Devine Dickie Doe (Doeskin) Dotty Echo Fawn (Deer) Flatrock Fox artersnake (Long) Golden City Grindstone Gull Haggart Healey Henshaw Jessop (Jingo) Jevins Joseph -Cox Bay Joseph - Hamer Bay Joseph -Joseph River Joseph - Little Lake Joseph Joseph -Main Joseph -North G Joseph -South Kahshe -Grant s Bay Kahshe -Main LOB -Dwight Bay LOB -Haystack Bay LOB -Rat Bay LOB -South Muskoka River Bay LOB -South Portage Bay LOB - Ten Mile Bay LOB -Trading Bay Lit Leonard ttle Go-Home Bay Longline Mary McRey Menominee Morrison Myers (Butterfly) Nine Mile North Bay North Muldrew Otter Oudaze Oxbow Paint (St. Mary) Pell Pine (BR) Pine (GR) Prospect Rickett's u -Brackenrig Bay Rosseau Rosseau - East Portage Bay Rosseau -Main Rosseau -North Rosseau -Skeleton Bay Six Mile - Six Mile - P Ryde (Buck) Silver (GR) Silver (ML) Silver Sand - Cedar Nook Bay Six Mile -Main rovincial Park Bay Solitaire South Bay South Muldrew Spence -North Spence -South Tasso Toronto Turtle Waseosa Weismuller Wood

7 Figure 3: 2013 Secchi Depth Measurements Lakes with low DOC ( mg/l) Lakes with moderate DOC ( mg/l) Lakes w ith high DOC (7.0 mg/l and above) hi depth measurements (m) 3 Average Secc Ben Bigwind Bonnie Brandy Brooks Bruce Camp Clark Cooper Cornall Dark Deer Devine Dickie Doe (Doeskin) Dotty Echo Fawn (Deer) Flatrock Fox artersnake (Long) Golden City Grindstone Gull Haggart Healey Henshaw Jessop (Jingo) Jevins Joseph -Cox Bay Joseph - Hamer Bay Joseph -Joseph River Joseph - Little Lake Joseph Joseph -Main Joseph -North Joseph -South Kahshe -Grant s Bay Kahshe -Main LOB -Dwight Bay LOB - Haystack Bay LOB -Rat Bay LOB -South Muskoka River Bay LOB -South Portage Bay LOB -Ten Mile Bay LOB -Trading Bay Leonard Little Go-Home Bay Longline Mary McRey Menominee Morrison Myers (Butterfly) Nine Mile North Bay North Muldrew Otter Oudaze Oxbow Paint (St. Mary) Pell Pine (BR) Pine (GR) Prospect Rickett's Rosseau - Brackenrig Bay Rosseau - East Portage Bay Rosseau -Main Rosseau -North Rosseau -Skeleton Bay Ryde (Buck) Silver (GR) Silver (ML) Silver Sand Six Mile - Cedar Nook Bay Six Mile -Main Six Mile -Provincial Park Bay Solitaire South Bay South Muldrew Spence -North Spence -South Tasso Toronto Turtle Waseosa Weismuller Wood G

8 Lake Data Sheet

9 Other Monitoring Benthic 27 Sites on 24 Lakes and 2 Rivers Shoreline Surveys 3 Lakes Updated Love Your Lake Love Your Lake 3 Lakes Participated

10 Love Your Lake Developed by CSW and CWF Pilot carried out in 5 areas of Ontario 3 lakes participated in 2013: Leonard, Peninsula & Fairy Participating organizations: MWC EcoMuskoka Conservation University of Waterloo PLA, FLA, LLSA

11 Access to Data Annual Water Quality Monitoring i Report Muskoka Water Web Lake Data Sheets Shoreline Land Use Survey Maps Aquatic Data Sheets MNR Fisheries Fact Sheets Stewardship Resources & Information

12 2014 Schedule Chemical Monitoring: 84 sites on 68 lakes as identified in Appendix `II` Shoreline Surveys: Love Your Lake program to be carried out on select lakes Biological Monitoring: participation of at least 35 organizations

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