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Podmore Beach – can you help?
We drove past our wonderful Podmore Beach yesterday and noticed that the 6 picnic tables are still on the sand. They are usually taken up to the grassy area and put upright against a tree for the winter to help preserve them and keep them out of the water in the spring. If anyone has a boat still in the water and a couple of helpers we’d appreciate if you could travel over there and do this job. It will certainly keep this space usable for years to come. If you have any questions, please contact me. Thank you!
Barb 705 457-8864
FOCA Update
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Happy Thanksgiving!!!
The CHA (Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners Associations) recently completed and published a comprehensive reporting on the health of our lakes in Haliburton County. DSLPOA is a member of CHA, and our two lakes are part of the report. DSLPOA purchased 50 copies of the full report, and they are available for sale at a discounted price to our members – for information please contact your Area Director, or email us at dragandsprucelakes@gmail.com. The report is also available at select local retailers – Northern Expressions (Haliburton) or Organic Times (Minden). See the CHA website for more information – https://www.cohpoa.org/
To read a summary of how the report was compiled, and the specific findings for Drag and Spruce Lakes – click here. Very interesting and informative.
From the report you will see that our lakes remain in good health overall, but there are several negative trends that are worrisome. The future health of our lakes is in our control. Get educated on what must be done to keep our lakes healthy – note summary on last page. To all – let’s put our personal action plans in place!
With the exception of the buoys marking the Milfoil weed bed, all the hazard “minions” have been replaced by the white wood markers. It was decided to delay the removal of the four minions guarding the weed bed until sometime in October so that area is still highly visible to anyone trying stretch out the boating season just that little bit more.
Many thanks to Glenn Tordoff, Ryan Vincent, Debra Farquharson and Allen Pizzey for volunteering their boats and piloting skills to help remove the buoys.
NOTE: Last winter, the ice locked onto the wooden marker for HR1 (sea mount north of Red Rock's Cliffs) and dragged the anchor off the plateau and into 50+ feet of water. To avoid a repeat performance this winter, the buoy and anchor have been removed completely. Unfortunately, that means that there is no temporary wood marker in that location. Please be extremely cautious when boating in that area.
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Land Acknowledgement
We respectfully acknowledge that the County of Haliburton is located on Treaty 20 Michi Saagiig territory, and in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig and Chippewa Nations, collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations, which are Curve Lake, Rama, Hiawatha, Alderville, Scugog Island, Beausoleil and Georgina Island First Nations.
We acknowledge a shared presence of Indigenous nations throughout the area, and recognize its original, Indigenous inhabitants as the stewards of its lands and waters since time immemorial.