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GLWS NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING To be held at the Meridian Beach Hall – 285 Canal St. (*directions attached)at 10:00 AM, Saturday, August 31st, 2024, (expected termination about 11:30 AM). We plan a Zoom Video Link for those who cannot attend in person. We will provide the Zoom link on our website under News + Events […]

Norval Horner | President of the Gull Lake Watershed Society Presidents Letter to the GLWS Membership – Gull Lake Stabilization The note below comes from Alberta Agriculture, water infrastructure operations branch, who as the operator is moving ahead to fulfill the application requirements of Alberta Environment for the installation of pressurized filtration on the Gull […]

Gull Lake, Alberta | Photography by Jeremy D. Crawford Presidents Letter to the GLWS Membership We continue with three major initiatives designed to restore the lake level. The purpose of this letter is to update members between general meetings. I have also attached a new level graph updated to 2024 showing the lake just held […]

Hello and greetings to all of our Gull Lake Watershed Society (GLWS) Members. Membership We report that our GLWS membership has now grown to 2054 members as at May 6, 2024 and we continue to grow each day while we as a small “non-profit” society are so grateful to each and every one of our […]

Potential Aquifer Pumping Hydrogeological Consultants Ltd. (HCL) was commissioned, in January 2024, to complete a Gull Lake area hydrology study on the Paskapoo Haynes formation. The objective of the study is to determine the viability and long-term sustainability of the deep source fresh water supply from lower Paskapoo Haynes members and to identify any potential […]

President’s Letter to Society Members Our membership director Henry Brander and Communications Officer Jeremy Crawford have continued signing new members since our annual meeting at the end of August and the GLWS now boasts over 2000 members. Congratulations to them on that success. Thank you to all who have signed up and all that active […]

Photography by Jeremy Crawford | APPKITT GLWS Board Meeting on September 26, 2023 (Zoom Call Meeting) The meeting called to order at 7:31 pm by Norval present Paul, Jeremy, Keith, Craig, Lon, Wendy, and Henry were slightly late Action items: Societies Act. Norval informed directors that he had updated the Societies return and sent it […]

President’s letter to the membership of the Gull Lake Watershed Society I am pleased to advise that after our annual meeting, our membership is now over 1900, and more joining all the time. Many are asking about the lake level and what’s being done about it, the main objective of this letter is to answer […]

Minutes of 2023 Gull Lake Watershed Annual Meeting August 26th, Summer village of Gull Lake hall, 10:00 AM to Noon DOWNLOAD GLWS AGM PRESENTATION SLIDES Share the Post: Related Posts Become a GLWS Member BECOME GLWS MEMBER

Gull Lake Water Testing Results from Environmental Public Health (Alberta Health Services) The sampling frequency for Gull Lake is biweekly for Microcystin, but it could change depending on the results. The most recent Microcystin reading was from Aug 08, 2023 (there is a delay in data entry if there are no issues with the […]

GLWS 2023 Annual Meeting August 26th from 10 AM to 12 PM Noon at the Summer Village of Gull Lake Hall: 29 Lakeview Avenue – South side of the lake. *Please note – the minutes of the GLWS 2022 Annual Meeting are posted on our website. Draft Agenda: Introduction, history of our Society, and […]

Minutes of the 2022 meeting of the Society. Sept 10, 2022 1. The meeting was held at the Meridian beach community hall and discussion was opened at 10:00 AM by president Paul Anderson. approximately 35 members of the society attended 2. the minutes of the 2021 meeting and an agenda for the meeting had […]

President’s Letter to Society Members Our membership director Henry Brander and Communications Officer Jeremy Crawford have continued active in signing new members and the GLWS now boasts over 1600 members. Congratulations to them on that success. Thank you to all that have signed up. And all that active support. Here are a few current issues […]

Hello and greetings to all of our Gull Lake Watershed Society (GLWS) members Membership We report that our GLWS membership has now grown from: 54 persons as at April 29 to 351 persons as at May 29 to 960 persons as at June 29 to 1,456 […]

President’s Letter to Society Members Our membership director Henry Brander and communications officer Jeremy Crawford have been very active in signing new members and Henry suggested a letter to introduce you to the Society and our current efforts. This includes a brief history of our society and brings you up to date on some of […]

We report that our membership has grown from 54 persons on April 29 to 351 persons on May 29 to 960 persons on June 29 and we seem to be growing by leaps and bounds each day while we as a small not-for-profit society are so grateful to each and every one of our members. Our goal is 5,000 members by the end of September of this 2023 year and still onward from there.

With warming temperatures and thawing lakes, there is more on our mind than peaceful weekends at the lake this summer! Aquatic invasive mussel species are knocking on Alberta’s door, threatening to show up at any given time and totally change the ecology of our local lakes and waterbodies. Hitching a ride between lakes on boats, trailers, and unwashed equipment, zebra and quagga mussels of the Dreissenid family are spreading throughout eastern Canada and the western United St

We have recently created a new website called Gull Lake Watershed Society and on that website, a page exists entitled “MEMBERSHIP” If you are a property owner around the lake or a user of the lake such as a boater, camper, fisher person, beach person or anyone who just loves Gull Lake, we need you and your spouses, family members, friends, neighbours, work mates, etc. that share your Gull Lake experience to join the GLWS simply by filling out the membership form on the websit