Thursday, April 17, 2025
Canada invests over $1M to protect and restore Lake Simcoe
Protecting fresh water means securing a cleaner, sustainable future for all. Lake Simcoe is a vital body of water key to life in southern Ontario…
Lake Simcoe
Ontario supporting local projects to protect Lake Simcoe
The Ontario government is investing over $1.3 million in four new multi-year projects to further reduce the amount of phosphorus entering Lake Simcoe, which will…
Ontario Seeks Input on Plans to Protect Lake Simcoe
The Ontario government is encouraging all interested individuals and groups to participate in an online public survey on plans to protect and improve Lake Simcoe before the…
New Stormwater Facility to Protect Lake Simcoe From Excess Phosphorus
Federal funding to construct a stormwater treatment facility has been announced. The stormwater treatment facility will reduce runoff from Holland Marsh into Lake Simcoe and…
Government of Ontario Makes Investment to Protect Lake Simcoe
The Ontario government announced that it is investing $581,000 in four new projects to help find better ways to reduce the amount of pollutants, such…
Evaluating the Costs of Cutting Phosphorus in Ontario
Nutrient loadings (particularly phosphorus) from human, agricultural, and industrial waste, combined with climate change, changes in land use patterns, and invasive species are creating algal…
New President and CAO of Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
The Board of Directors of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative (Cities Initiative) has announced that John Dickert will has been selected to…
York Region Topped Ontario Drinking Water Quality in 2016
York Region has announced that it either met or exceeded the required parameters for drinking water quality established in its Safe Drinking Water Act of…
Updated: Ontario’s Annual Report on Lake Simcoe
Ontario has released its Minister’s Annual Report on Lake Simcoe for 2015. The report provided an update on government efforts since the release of their…
Bradford, Ont. Moving Toward Approval of a Stormwater Management Master Plan
In 2013, the Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury initiated a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) study to develop a new Stormwater Management Master Plan in…
Lake Simcoe Protection Act A Success, New Report Shows
Today Ontario released a report that shows that the health of Lake Simcoe is improving. The five-year report is the results of the Ontario government’s decision…
Plenty of Room at the Table
For much of 2010, Tracey Carrigan, the Regional Municipality of York’s manager of environmental education and promotion, and her close-knit team of staff and industry…
Protecting Lake Simcoe
Once known as Canada’s ice fishing capital, Lake Simcoe is Ontario’s largest lake after the Great Lakes, boasting a surface area of approximately 744 square…
Ontario to Develop Plan to Protect Lake Simcoe
The Province of Ontario announced this week it is taking a major step to address the effects more than 200 years of human activity have…
Projects to Protect Lake and Increase Potable Water in Orillia, Ont.
Two water infrastructure projects were unveiled Tuesday that will provide 17 per cent more potable water for the city of Orillia, Ont.Approximately $2.65 million dollars…