Water Resources

Quinte Conservation is advising residents of the potential for high river and lake levels to continue into the next two weeks. Recent weather conditions of rainfall and warm temperatures produced a second phase of the freshet, causing elevated river and lake levels.

Quinte Conservation is advising residents of the potential for river and lake levels to rise quickly. Weather conditions that have occurred during the holiday weekend (rainfall and warm temperatures) have started the second phase of the freshet, with some rivers moving towards flood levels.

Quinte Conservation is advising residents of the potential for swollen creeks and nuisance flooding due to expected rain and rain on melting snow.

This spring, Quinte Conservation encourages everyone to enjoy outdoor activities safely and to stay cautious around fast-flowing and ice-covered water.

Quinte Conservation is advising residents of the potential for swollen creeks and nuisance flooding due to expected freezing rain and rain on melting snow.

Quinte Conservation’s Water Resources department continues to monitor the current and projected weather forecasts that will influence this spring’s freshet. With higher-than-normal water content in the snowpack and significant ice coverage across the watershed, these conditions present a potential risk for flooding once thawing occurs.

Quinte Conservation and the Low Water Response Team (LWRT) have declared that the watershed has returned to normal water conditions.

Quinte Conservation and the Low Water Response Team have reduced the region’s low water condition to Level 1. Watershed conditions stabilized over the month of November and into December, with near normal rainfall and snowfall offsetting the deficient precipitation amounts from August through to the present. Adjacent watershed regions have also seen similar improvements and have likewise reduced their condition status.

The Province of Ontario has passed Bill 68, ‘Plan to Protect Ontario Act’, which will establish a new provincial agency to oversee the activities of conservation authorities and will have the power to direct regional strategic planning, and financial & operational matters. 

Quinte Conservation and the Low Water Response Team have reduced the region’s low water condition to level 2.