WATER QUALITY MONITORING
URLA uses the services of the Centre for Sustainable Watersheds to monitor the health of Upper Rideau Lake. URLA volunteers assist specialists from the Centre in collection of water samples numerous times each year. Water samples are taken at each of 12 established sites around the Lake. Data taken from the samples is arhived for long term trend analysis.Each year an annual water quality report is created which contains a summary of the analysis of water samples for the year. At the last two URLA AGMs a brief summary was presented to the membership of the findings from the previous year. Reports from the AGMs in Microsoft Word format are available at the links below:
2008 Report
2006/2007 Report
2005/2006 Report (306Kb)
"2002/2003 Report (1.5MB)".
"2003/2004 Report (.5MB)".
"2004/2005 Report (28KB)".
Full reports in ".pdf" format are available for download below;
2002 Upper Rideau Lake Water Quality Report (2MB)
2003 Upper Rideau Lake Water Quality Report (300KB)
2004 Upper Rideau Lake Water Quality Report (238KB)
2005 Upper Rideau Lake Water Quality Report (639KB)
LAKE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
Measurements from Upper Rideau Lake are shared with the province of Ontario's Lake Partnership program. The Lake Partnership publishes data on all lakes in the province participating in the program. If you are interested in seeing the full reports of all lakes participating, please follow the link below and scroll to the bottom of the resulting page to download the reports.http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/water/lake_partner/