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Earlier this summer, Alberta Health Services issued a
blue-green algae advisory warning people to stay away from the lake, because
contact with the algae in the water can cause nausea, vomiting and rashes.
Photograph by: Brian J. Gavriloff / Edmonton Journal,
edmontonjournal.com
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"The consultations will centre on four key areas, McQueen said: healthy lakes, the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, efficient water management — an issue that will include debate about water licences and markets — and municipal issues, including waste water."
By Karen Kleiss,
Edmonton Journal
September 27, 2012
EDMONTON - Public debate over fracking, water markets and dying Alberta lakes will heat up in coming months as the provincial government prepares to embark on a provincewide water consultation.
For Albertans such as Sandi Benford, the meetings can’t come soon enough: She says the lake near her home is choking on algae, and she wants the province to help save it.
Benford is the Mayor of the Summer Village of Southview and president of the Lake Isle Aquatic Management Society.
“People are moving away because the lake is in such bad shape,” Benford said Thursday at a meeting of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association. “We have a highly eutrophic lake: it’s shallow, high phosphorous, with high chemical concentrations, which cause the growth of vegetation, which is choking everything out.
“The year before last, we had a winter fish kill, so fishing was closed. There’s less boating. ... The smell is so bad, you can’t even walk.”
Earlier this summer, Alberta Health Services issued a blue-green algae advisory warning people to stay away from the lake, because contact with the algae in the water can cause nausea, vomiting and rashes.
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