Brandy Lake Muskoka
2021 Summer Newsletter
President’s MessageGreetings! We hope you are all enjoying the current cottage season and are able to spend lots of time at beautiful Brandy Lake. Your BLA Executive continues to be busy working on behalf of all BLA Members. You will find details of some of the ongoing activities in this newsletter including: water quality sampling programs for 2021; progress on our Lake Plan for Brandy Lake; our plans for social activities for this season during which we continue to deal with COVID 19 restrictions; and a reminder of the Good Neighbour Code that was circulated last season. We are pleased...
The Brandy Lake Good Neighbour Code
Brandy Lake is a place that all of us, as summer visitors, cottage owners/families, and full time residents, value greatly. The positive experience we have here are rooted in family, outdoor recreation, and spending time with friends and relatives. The lake is valuable, and maintaining the health of the lake remains a core value for the Brandy Lake Association. We have developed this good neighbour code to help everyone enjoy Brandy Lake for years to come.
Brandy Lake Association Strategic Plan
Greetings from Brandy Lake! We hope this finds you and your family safe and preparing for a safe, physically distanced or properly bubbled holiday season wherever you are! Brandy Lake is fully covered with ice, but it is still very thin in several areas, so we urge extreme caution as always when venturing out onto the lake at this time of year. Everyone is hoping for a white Christmas, but so far, our snowfalls keep melting with warming weather! We hope that if you are not already at the lake when you receive this, that you find some time to enjoy winter at the lake over...
An integrated solution for flooding, economic prosperity in Muskoka
Written by: Kevin TrimbleOriginally published to: https://www.muskokaregion.com It’s time to get serious about getting residents, businesspeople and decision-makers to start building a watershed plan for the Muskoka River watershed. And I’ll tell you why. I can think of no other place in Ontario with a greater connection between socio-economic prosperity and the environmental quality. We assume Muskoka will always be a world-class destination that supports our varied livelihoods, but there is evidence that we can’t keep conducting ourselves the same way we always have. If Muskoka were to...
Blue-green Algae Advisory
The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit has lifted the public advisory regarding blue green algae on Brandy Lake as of September 24th. The first sample taken the week of July 29 was nontoxic, and the second sample, taken the week of Sept. 17th by the Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks has confirmed the original nontoxic results. The link for further information is:...
Two options to pay your 2021 BLA membership
1. Two-year membership ($35 + $35)
2. One-year membership ($35)
