Maximizing Lake Winnipeg Outflows Helps Prevent Flooding

Manitoba Hydro is continuing to operate its Lake Winnipeg Regulation (LWR) works in order to maintain maximum outflows from the lake. The LWR works include additional outlet channels at the north end of Lake Winnipeg as well as the Jenpeg Generating Station and control structure. This allows up to 50 percent more water to flow [...]

Maximizing Lake Winnipeg Outflows Helps Prevent Flooding

Manitoba Hydro is continuing to operate its Lake Winnipeg Regulation (LWR) works in order to maintain maximum outflows from the lake. The LWR works include additional outlet channels at the north end of Lake Winnipeg as well as the Jenpeg Generating Station and control structure. This allows up to 50 percent more water to flow [...]

The Need to Clean Up Lake Winnipeg

The Manitoba government released a report looking at the health of Lake Winnipeg that is to serve as a guide to clean up the province’s largest lake. The report, by Manitoba Water Stewardship and Environment Canada, looks at the current and ongoing research on Lake Winnipeg including water quality, water levels, algae growth and climate [...]

Ongoing Research on Lake Winnipeg

The Manitoba government on Monday released a report looking at the health of Lake Winnipeg that is to serve as a guide to clean up the province’s largest lake. The report, by Manitoba Water Stewardship and Environment Canada, looks at the current and ongoing research on Lake Winnipeg including water quality, water levels, algae growth [...]

Break out your rods and reels: Winter Family Fishing Weekend planned

Manitobans and visitors will be able to fish without a licence Feb. 19-21, the province announced this morning in proclaiming the first Winter Family Fishing Weekend. “We encourage Manitobans and visitors to take advantage of this free ice fishing weekend as a healthy winter activity and an opportunity to enjoy Manitoba’s great outdoors,” Water Stewardship [...]

Border farmers decry water deal with Sask

MANITOBANS who farm along the Assiniboine River near the Saskatchewan border say the province failed to protect their interests in a recent water deal with its western neighbour. The farmers say the agreement will leave them with ongoing flooding problems. The deal will allow Saskatchewan to proceed with plans to build a 23-kilometre channel to [...]

Bracing for the inevitable water overflow Assiniboine River property owners waiting, worrying

LAKE OF THE PRAIRIES, Man. — Over the past two months, the province has allowed water to spill out of this artificial reservoir on the Assiniboine River to create room for a flood of snowmelt expected within weeks. Better known to locals as the Shellmouth Reservoir, this 56-kilometre-long lake near the Saskatchewan border is one [...]

Manitoba communities fed up with mess left in fishing shacks

WINNIPEG — The Rural Municipality of St. Clements is mounting a campaign to have the province ban ice-fishing shacks from the Red River in a bid to end the mess left behind each spring. In a letter to Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick, the rural municipality north of Winnipeg says it’s seeking support from the [...]

Campaign afoot to ban ice-fishing fishing shacks on Red River

WINNIPEG – The Rural Municipality of St. Clements is mounting a campaign to have the province ban ice-fishing shacks from the Red River in a bid to end the mess left behind each spring. In a letter to Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick, the rural municipality north of Winnipeg said it’s seeking support from the [...]

Manitoba Town Seeks Ban On Ice Fishing Shacks On Red River

St. Clements Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick is asking the Manitoba government to ban throughout the province the construction of ice-fishing shacks on Red River. Melnick wants to prohibit the shacks because of the debris left behind by the owners of the ice-fishing shelters. Melnick is asking officials of other Manitoba areas such as St. [...]

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