The LMAA is a non-profit voluntary organization dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage and environmental integrity of the waters of Lake Manitou, its feeder streams, and outgoing rivers and partner lakes.
Lake Manitou is the largest lake of the 108 lakes on Manitoulin Island with a surface area of approximately 104 sq. km or 40.5 sq. miles. It also can lay claim to being the largest lake on a freshwater island in the world. Manitoulin Island is located in Northern Ontario, Canada at the northern edge of Lake Huron.
The LMAA has close ties to the Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association, an award winning, non profit organization dedicated to rehabilitating stream ecosystems of Manitoulin Island.
FOCA is the voice of the Ontario waterfront. FOCA speaks to, and on behalf of, the 250,000 waterfront property owners (WPO) who live at the water, either seasonally or year-round. Our members are 525 lake & road associations in rural communities across the province.
Manitoulin Streams has been protecting and restoring Manitoulin Island’s rivers and streams since 2001.
LMAA serves and represents property owners and lake users in the Lake Manitou and surrounding area to protect the ecosystem of the Lake through education, communication, advocacy and water testing.
We envision a sustainable thriving ecosystem on Lake Manitou by following through with our Lake Protection Plan.
To respectfully connect with Lake Manitou and area residents, first nations, municipal and government bodies and other organizations as required to protect the ecosystem of Lake Manitou.
Since 1993, the LMAA has been dedicated to educating its lake residents about the benefits of environmental stewardship and sustainable water front living. Early on in the association’s existence, the Manitou River’s headwaters were identified as needing some restoration as it had suffered from many years of neglect. It no longer provided adequate habitat to support aquatic marine life and the spawning beds that were so vital to the sport fishery of Lake Huron were in disrepair.
Association volunteers worked a few days each summer for the next three years to remove broken glass and all forms of rubbish from the river. The following year, a Ministry Grant allowed the association to hire a local contractor who provided large equipment as well as boulders & logs necessary to provide fish protection and narrow the river in some areas so the spawning beds could be reclaimed.
More recently, association volunteers have been assisted by a number of stewardship partners in an effort to restore perch habitat, and build brook trout spawning beds in Lake Manitou.
The Directors started taking water samples (phosphorus readings) and secchi disc readings (for clarity) in 1993. These water samples (originally sent to London Ontario) are now sent to the Ministry of Environment at Dorset Ontario where records are kept as part of the “Lake partner Program”. These readings continue to be taken annually and will be useful tool in monitoring the water quality of Lake Manitou and any changes that may result due to climate change, development on the lake, etc.
Shoal markers were positioned on “Acre shoal” and the “Narrows” during the first year of the associations existence. Since then, additional markers have been placed in other rocky locations around the lake. Thanks to the efforts of member volunteers, these markers are placed and retrieved each spring and fall.
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