Cleaning-Up Lake Simcoe outlines actions that the Government of Ontario can take to reduce Lake Simcoe’s phosphorus pollution to 44 tonnes per year by 2026.
In 2009 the Government of Ontario released its Lake Simcoe Protection Plan which called for our Lake’s phosphorus pollution to be reduced to 44 tonnes per year to protect our coldwater fishery (e.g., lake trout, whitefish) and to prevent algae blooms and excessive growth of weeds. Unfortunately, the Province of Ontario has failed to develop a plan and a budget to achieve the 44 tonne per year target.
To add insult to injury, Lake Simcoe’s phosphorus pollution has risen by more than 30% since the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan was released in 2009.
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