Love Your Lake

February 2026 – A presentation about the Love your lake program was given at the 2025 BPOA AGM.  If you haven’t downloaded your customized report, you can do so at https://loveyourlake.ca/

Here is a summary of the program:

In 2024 the Kawartha Lake Stewards Association (KLSA) organized to have staff travel around Clear Lake by boat and make observations about each property and its shoreline, developments such as docks, stairs, decks, and retaining walls; the aquatic wildlife habitat, natural shoreline vegetation, etc. The information was then developed into personalized property reports with recommendations and additional information about healthy shorelines, shoreline buffers, erosion, lawns, wells, septic systems and more. The reports contain excellent information that we often forget.

KLSA spoke about the program at the 2025 BPOA AGM.  Clear Lake owners can access their customized report for their property through the https://loveyourlake.ca/ website. It is a valuable resource and worth reading if you have not yet downloaded your report.

Here are the type of comments from the report:

“Highlights for your shoreline property:

You have great vegetation along your shoreline. You have great habitat on your property. You could improve your pathway to your shoreline.”

“Thank you for maintaining such a great shoreline buffer - the strip of trees, shrubs and grasses lining the edge of your shoreline. You’re helping protect against erosion as well as trapping and filtering sediments, pathogens, pesticides, fertilizers and other nutrients that reduce water quality, harm the delicate gills of fish and smother the eggs of fish and small aquatic organisms essential to the food chain. When nutrients are not captured it can lead to accelerated growth of algae and aquatic plants. You’re also shading and cooling the water, and you’re providing protective cover for birds, mammals and other wildlife that feed, breed and rear young near water. In the more developed areas, you could consider expanding your buffer slightly to help filter overland runoff before it enters the lake.”

Love Your Lake was brought to Clear Lake by the Kawartha Lake Stewards Association, and coordinated by Watersheds Canada, the Canadian Wildlife Federation and several enthusiastic volunteers! Thank you to everyone involved for making this program possible.