Lake Simcoe/South-Eastern Georgian Bay Cleanup Fund

The coast of South-Eastern Georgian Bay has numerous bays and inlets. This area is an important resource for drinking water, recreation and fish habitat. While offshore water quality of Georgian Bay is not impaired, nearshore embayments and inlets, in some instances, have been reported to experience water quality degradation. Concerns include excess nutrients, increased frequency of cyanobacteria blooms and hypoxia. The Lake Simcoe Clean-up Fund was expanded in 2012 to include the South East shore of Georgian Bay. This mandate allowed for researchers to assess water quality and nuisance and toxic algal blooms within a geographical scope from the Nottawassaga Valley Watershed to the coast of Georgian Bay between Port Severn and the French River. The program was completed in 2017.


Lake Simcoe is the fourth largest lake entirely in Ontario. It is part of the Trent Severn Waterway connecting Georgian Bay to Lake Ontario where tourism generates more than $200 million per year. In 2007-2012 the Lake Simcoe Cleanup Fund was created to address the increased phosphorus loading from point and non-point sources, research and monitoring to improve environmental information for decision making and conservation of fish and aquatic wildlife habitat. Collaborative research between a number of government and non-government stakeholders have contributed to monitoring, research and management of Lake Simcoe to ensure long term ecosystem health of this valuable resource.

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Date Stamp
2021-05-12T06:05:19
Metadata language

eng; CAN
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UTF8
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Series
Author
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html
 

Data identification

Date (Creation)
2019-03-26
Date (Publication)
2019-06-12
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Inland waters
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - David Depew ( Research Scientist )
867 Lakeshore Rd. , Ontario , Canada

Keywords

Theme

  • nutrients

  • Observation/Measurement
Place

  • Lake Simcoe

  • South-East Georgian Bay

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Water quality

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Water - Quality

Business Functions

  • Oversee and Manage Site Conditions

  • Designate and Manage Areas of Interest or Concern

Geography

  • Water - Drainage regions - Great Lakes

  • Ontario (ON)

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Science and Technology Branch

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Water Science and Technology

external.theme.EC_Program_PAA

  • 1.3.4. Great Lakes

external.theme.GC_Security_Level

  • Unclassified
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

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Use Constraints
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Begin Date
2013-06-11
End Date
2016-02-02

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http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /
 

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  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html
 
 

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Keywords

Lake Simcoe Observation/Measurement South-East Georgian Bay nutrients
Business Functions
Designate and Manage Areas of Interest or Concern Oversee and Manage Site Conditions
ECCC Information Category EN
Water - Quality
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Water quality
external.theme.EC_Branch
Science and Technology Branch
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Water Science and Technology
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
1.3.4. Great Lakes
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

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