Our Water Quality

How is the quality tested? What impacts the quality? What can we do to help ensure its quality?  As a cottage owner on Salerno Lake I'm sure you are asking all the same questions as your neighbors. To learn more, simply keep reading...

 

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The water quality results are reviewed yearly at the AGM

 

 

Overview of Salerno Lake's Results 

 

Water Testing - How is it done?

 

 

The results from the Lake Partner Program are published online in their interactive map.  

 

Try it - Launch the interactive map. Enter our lake name then click the marked area to see the results for our Lake.

 

What do the results mean? Click here to display the fact sheet on the interpretation of Total-Phosphorus and Secchi Results. 

 

 

Click the links below to view our Salerno Lake Results provided to the Lake Partner Program for Salerno Lake. 

 

 

Salerno Lake is part of a province wide, volunteer-base, water quality monitoring program called Lake Partner Program. Over 600 volunteers monitor nutrients and water clarity at almost 800 lakes.

 

Our testing kits arrive via Canada Post each year. Testing is performed in 3 locations on Salerno Lake in the summer months between May to October. 

 

The SDLCA and volunteer members collect water samples for phosphorous and calcium, record the Secchi disc depths, and take water temperature readings about 1 metre below water level. This process helps us to understand what is happening in our lake so that we can take corrective action if there are any concerns. 

 

Changes are coming - Lake Partner Program is looking at County wide testing with U-links so that testing is more consistent among lakes, and the results would be available within days to the public. 

 

Impacts on our Water Quality

 

Click "Your Property" on Home Page for ways to help maintain our water quality by preserving our shorelines, our wetlands and propertly maintaining our septic systems.

 

INVASIVE SPECIES TEST  

  • There are no invasive species such as Spiny water fleas or zebra mussels in Salerno Lake (2012). The Ont. Federation of Anglers and Hunters supply FREE equipment and analysis for Spiny Water Flea and Zebra Mussels - arrangement are made in the summer for the equipment to arrive, testing in #1 and #2 location, and samples returned within a pre arranged week.   Click here to find out more about this program.

GREY WATER  Recycle your grey water

CALCUIM  Fact Sheet in Ontario Lake

ACID RAIN

LIME STONE

ANTIBACTERIAL CHEMICALS  

  • FOCA has posted recent news about the threat faced and the actions needed, to reduce the threat to our freshwater resources from antibacterial chemicals

PLASTIC MICROBEADS 

  • Environment Canada began studying the impacts of plastic microbeads on wildlife and the environment under the previous Conservative government in March 2015. The beads were officially declared toxic in June of this year.
  • The tiny pieces of plastic are used as exfoliants and cleansers in toiletries but do not dissolve. They then find their way into oceans, lakes and rivers where the beads are ingested by a variety of organisms.
  • Plastic microbeads will be banned in Canada, effective mid-2018.

 
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