Water Resources

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

Quinte Conservation would like to remind the public that the Level 3 Low Water Condition issued on October 22 is still in effect for the Quinte watershed. Recent rainfall has started to provide some relief to the dry conditions, but it has not yet alleviated the water supply issues that some residents are experiencing.

Despite recent precipitation events throughout the Quinte Watershed, the region remains in a level 3 Low Water Condition, indicating severe drought. 

Quinte Conservation is conducting annual dam operations in the Moira and Napanee regions on, or after, Tuesday, October 14.

Belleville, ON - The public is invited to attend an information session on September 16th to learn about the negative impacts Water Soldier (Stratiotes aloides) has on local aquatic ecosystems and the proactive measures Quinte Conservation, the Ministry of Environment, Conservation & Parks, and the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters are taking to combat this species in the Bay of Quinte.

Quinte Conservation has declared a Level 3 - Low Water Condition

With a Level 1 – Low Water status in effect for the Quinte Watershed, Quinte Conservation Staff have performed dam operations at Second Depot Lake and Third Depot Lake dams located in the Napanee region watershed, to help improve the significantly low water levels in the Napanee River. Residents are warned to be cautious as water levels on First Depot Lake and Depot Creek, downstream of the dams, are expected to rise quickly in response to the operation, while Second Depot Lake will slowly decline.

The Quinte Region Low Water Response Team has issued a Level 1 - Low Water Condition for the Quinte Watershed. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 31, 2024