Presentations June 04, 2022

You could not attend the conference on Saturday June 4?

Here are the links to the presentations including the presentations of Mr. John Dalzell, president of ABVLacs, Maxime Bélanger, liaison officer for CRE Laurentides, Mathieu Langlois, director of the Environmental Service of the municipality of Sainte-Anne-des -Lacs and Charles Gélinas (forestry engineer) and Antoine Sénéchal (biologist) of the firm Services Forestier Gélinas.

PDF presentations (in french only):
John Dalzell, president of ABVLacs
Maxime Bélanger, liaison officer for CRE Laurentides
Mathieu Langlois, director of the Environmental Service of the municipality of Sainte-Anne-des -Lacs
Charles Gélinas (forestry engineer) and Antoine Sénéchal (biologist) of the firm Services Forestier Gélinas

If you have any questions, please send them to: info@abvlacs.ca. A member of the team will respond to your enquiry!

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Articles

ABVLacs Brief Projet Eau pour tous

We are pleased to share with you the brief we submitted to the municipality as part of the consultation on “le projet de politique d’accès à l’eau”. Consult the brief (in French only) This document outlines the main concerns and suggestions made by...

Filamentous algae?

What is a filamentous algae? Click here (in French only)

Eurasian water-milfoil education session: Access to the documents

Here is the documentation and video presentation by Jani Boyer Information on boat cleaning (in french only): Depliant-nettoyage-embarcations Document accompanying the video presentation (in french only) : Formation des Sentinelles Link to the video presentation (in...

Eurasian water-milfoil a short guide

Aquatic exotic Invasive plants. Eurasian water-milfoil a short guide to avoid invasion. guide_myriophylle_AN

SAVING QUEBEC’S LAKES

ABVLacs supports "le programme national de gestion du myriophylle- a-épi" (Videos available in French only) https://rappel.qc.ca/alliance-pour-la-gestion-du-myriophylle/

Eurasian Water-Milfoil: l’envahisseur marin

In aquariums, Eurasian water-milfoil can be used as decorative vegetation. But when it ends up in our waterways, slowing its spread is no small feat! This exotic plant suffocates our lakes and rivers in which it proliferates, and it does so at high speed. It is found...

Video summer 2020 on ongoing research etc…

Summer 2020 video clip on the research project on water filtration on Lac Caron and Lac Johanne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmxYdCrEIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsCsB8dtUwo

June 2020 video clip on the achievements of ABVLacs in 2019-2020

Please note that the format of the 2020 annual general meeting has changed since these videos were filmed. For the right information, please see the home page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-V5Rp76B5I (français) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rla_7UwIcXk...

June 2020 Video Clip and November 2019 Report on Lac Ouimet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z5kcbBwz1I (vidéo en français) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-pYjTr-dw (vidéo en anglais) In addition, the report on this same project by Professor Richard Carignan of the Department of Biological Sciences at the Université de...

Sample Collection Results – VLMP Program – 2019

The sample collection results from the VLMP (Volunteer Lake Management Program) of the Government of Quebec for the lakes tested in 2019 is available here (in French only). You need to select Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs in the drop-down menu under “Municipalité” and click on...

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Lake assesments

Lac Boisclair

Lac Cupidon

The Atlas of Lakes contains all documents, photos, maps and reports relating to your lake. Here's how to access it: https://crelaurentides.org/dossiers/eau-lacs/atlasdeslacs Enter the number that identifies your lake in the space provided for this purpose (carte)...

Lac Johanne

The Atlas of Lakes contains all documents, photos, maps and reports relating to your lake. Here's how to access it: https://crelaurentides.org/dossiers/eau-lacs/atlasdeslacs Enter the number that identifies your lake in the space provided for this purpose (carte) and...

Lac des Frères Côme-Lalande

The Atlas of Lakes contains all documents, photos, maps and reports relating to your lake. Here's how to access it: https://crelaurentides.org/dossiers/eau-lacs/atlasdeslacs Enter the number that identifies your lake in the space provided for this purpose (carte) and...

Lac Pelletier

L’Atlas des Lacs contient tous les documents, photos, cartes et rapports, se rapportant à votre lac. Voici comment y accéder : https://crelaurentides.org/dossiers/eau-lacs/atlasdeslacs Inscrivez le numéro qui identifie votre lac dans l’espace prévu à cet effet (carte)...

Lac Paquette

The Atlas of Lakes contains all documents, photos, maps and reports relating to your lake. Here's how to access it: https://crelaurentides.org/dossiers/eau-lacs/atlasdeslacs Enter the number that identifies your lake in the space provided for this purpose (carte) and...

Lac Suzanne

The Atlas of Lakes contains all documents, photos, maps and reports relating to your lake. Here's how to access it: https://crelaurentides.org/dossiers/eau-lacs/atlasdeslacs Enter the number that identifies your lake in the space provided for this purpose (carte) and...

Lac Parent

The Atlas of Lakes contains all documents, photos, maps and reports relating to your lake. Here's how to access it: https://crelaurentides.org/dossiers/eau-lacs/atlasdeslacs Enter the number that identifies your lake in the space provided for this purpose (carte) and...

Lac Colette

The Atlas of Lakes contains all documents, photos, maps and reports relating to your lake. Here's how to access it: https://crelaurentides.org/dossiers/eau-lacs/atlasdeslacs Enter the number that identifies your lake in the space provided for this purpose (carte) and...

Lac Castor

Lac Castor is a wetland.

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The Association

Members of the Board of Directors 2023-2024

President: Jacinthe Laliberté Vice-president: Dominique Alarie Secretary-treasurer: Jean-Pierre Dupont Administrator members: - Communications: Julie Marc-Aurèle - Website and Facebook: Julie Andreoli - Facebook and email: Yves Briand - Subscriptions: Sandra Snow -...

Members of the Board of Directors 2021-2022

Marois watershed Position 1 : Jeannie Kavanaugh Position 2 : Samuel Shapiro Position 3 : [vacant position] Position 4 : John (Sean) Dalzell, president Ouimet watershed Position 5 : Jean-Pierre Dupont, secretary-treasurer Position 6 : Ghislaine Van Berkom Castor et...

Achievements and Future Plans

Achievements As part of the Government of Quebec’s Volunteer Lake-Monitoring Program (VLMP), our network of volunteers carry out sample collections in order to assess the health of the lakes. Update of the health records for the lakes in Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs Update of...

What is a Watershed?

It’s the funnel principle; i.e. the area draining naturally to a water stream, a lake or an artificial basin. The International Organization for Standardization defines the equivalent term “catchment area” as “the area draining naturally to a water course or to a...

Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of members is usually held in May or June, i.e. just before the beginning of the organization’s main summer activities.

Archives

The minutes of previous meetings since 2016 are available under the “archives” heading. The minutes of each annual general meeting are approved at the next year’s AGM and are not available until they are ratified by the organization’s members.

Membership

Dear members, We would like to thank you for your ongoing commitment to the mission of ABVLacs. Without you and our team of volunteer lake leaders and sentinels, it would be impossible to preserve and improve the water quality of our territory's watersheds in a...

About Us

About Us The Agence des bassins versants de Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs (ABVLACS) is a community-based non-profit organization. Our mission Our mission is to ensure the preservation and the improvement of water quality in our regional watersheds from a sustainable...

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