Oh the sewers !!!!!
Ravyak,
The MD of Opportunity fills your cistern and pumps out your septic tank once a week for a grand total of ......
$42.00 a month! Seriously!!! Our water is reverse osmosis with chlorine trace and then UV on top.
I can't wait to retire and be up there for longer periods. The MD will even clean the snow for the Retired folks at Calling Lake. They give fantastic service to us, and create a lot of jobs for the first nations people at the lake. They really care about the lake.
The Sewage is taken to a sewage lagoon a couple of miles away which drains into the river through 4 miles of muskeg, and the MD is building a new set of sewage lagoons that will be about 6 miles from the lake. Its not from sewer leakage causing Algae like Pigeon Lake was.
Pretty much everyone is on pump out, including the cabin section. I am not aware of any existing septic fields.
As for the fish flies, they were not dying from the algae, they died after laying their eggs. The strength of the lake are those billions of fish flies. The larvae are the small blood worms that the whitefish, perch, and minnows feed on all winter. You only get those flies in a clean lake. Then in the summer when the larvae swim to the surface to hatch, you guessed it, the whitefish, perch, and minnows feed all summer long. Guess what feeds on them!
However, it is true that the algae can bloom by August, and can smell. Its just part of nature, but it may be an argument about climate change because of the longer summers.
The Calling River runs free, so the lake is getting flushed out steady. This year was a high water year, so hopefully the nutrient load will decrease after a few low water years.
The real problem is a lack of iron in the soil. In Ontario there are some very nitrogen rich lakes but the algae does not take off because of the iron in the water inhibits it.
Drewski
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