Quill lakes

[redleaf]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/quill-lakes-drainage-enforcement-1.3679549

[bluefargo]

I heard the interview on CBC. I'm not real sympathetic. The key word is unauthorized drainage projects. Water illegally drained is a perennial problem. Nobody likes their neighbours upstream flooding them out. Very inconsiderate and disrespectful.

[Partners]

Interesting to see how they are going to enforce it...No one will close a ditch until they have to...

[sumdumguy]

At some point you will all grt together, form a drainage association and deal with the problem once and for all, but until then guess you'll have to accept the terrain you chose and enjoy its positive qualities.

[freewheat]

I wish they would take into account precipitation levels before jumping on farmer draining. Unless you live around these areas, it is a foreign concept just for how many years precipitation and temperatures have been colluding to screw it all up.

[BreadWinner]

At some point you will all grt together, form a drainage association and deal with the problem once and for all, but until then guess you'll have to accept the terrain you chose and enjoy its positive qualities.

Pretty had to form a drainage association to drain into a terminal basin. Even if all the members aggreed to build drainage chanels it would add even more water to the Quill Lakes. Sask watershed would never agree to that. If it was formed to drain the Quill Lakes into Last Mountain Lake and lower the Quill lake Level. Then you would accomplish something and then drainage associations would be possible. We bought 2 quarters of highly assessed land that was 1 mile from the lake and now its all under water. Still paying taxes on lake bottom land.

[newguy]

Wait till manitoba gets involved.Very easy to pick up problem areas with pictures from above.

[bgmb]

Nothing to do with man made drainage, it's a dead end slough, many wet years in a row......

Same situation at devil's lake and countless small lakes and sloughs with no obvious outlets across the prairies. Pull your head from your ass and stop playing the blame game

[Wheatking]

What we need is to get this god damned water moving if it can. This is a province built on farm land not raising fn ducks for American hunters. We are loosing more land every year for decades due to the extremely high water table and salinity.

What we have now is a government who wants to rule by passing the buck(and therefore the blame) onto committee's etc.. to determine the best course of action, and guess what, they also want consensus, because heaven forbid they lose a vote for governing. Consensus is impossible as there is always someone who objects. What we need are drainage projects to get this water flowing, without damaging infrastructure further down the line. We need tile, managed drainage and capacity to deal with huge dumps of rain. And we have a government who thinks we need to spend more money on irrigation. They have to get their head out of their asses and get moving on large managed drainage pockets. I would be extremely happy to pay a tax of a few dollars an acre to see some large watershed drainage projects go forward, hell it wouldn't even cost the government anything, we just need their leadership to get things moving. Let's get the huge drainage projects done first, then we can worry about smaller c&d projects.

Though farmer drainage may exasperate the problem somewhat, the real culprit is nearly a decade of double to triple the normal rainfall in these watersheds.

Guess what uses up more water then anything, a good healthy crop. Can't have a good crop when a third of your land is ruined from salinity, can't have a good healthy crop when the water table is at the surface. You can't even have decent duck habitat when. Their nesting, resting areas are flooded out every year.

I was a the legislature a month ago and Cathy Sproule had the gall to read a petition from Ducks Unlimited stating that 90% of the wetlands have been drained. For Christmas sakes she's the ag critic, does she not fact check this b.s. from ducks unlimited. I guarantee you that wetlands have increased ten fold over the last decade, but most of that wetland is useless as wildlife habitat because the borders are a saline wasteland.

Saskatchewan was built by farmers, not by Ducks

[Klause]

What we need is to get this god damned water moving if it can. This is a province built on farm land not raising fn ducks for American hunters. We are loosing more land every year for decades due to the extremely high water table and salinity.

What we have now is a government who wants to rule by passing the buck(and therefore the blame) onto committee's etc.. to determine the best course of action, and guess what, they also want consensus, because heaven forbid they lose a vote for governing. Consensus is impossible as there is always someone who objects. What we need are drainage projects to get this water flowing, without damaging infrastructure further down the line. We need tile, managed drainage and capacity to deal with huge dumps of rain. And we have a government who thinks we need to spend more money on irrigation. They have to get their head out of their asses and get moving on large managed drainage pockets. I would be extremely happy to pay a tax of a few dollars an acre to see some large watershed drainage projects go forward, hell it wouldn't even cost the government anything, we just need their leadership to get things moving. Let's get the huge drainage projects done first, then we can worry about smaller c&d projects.

Though farmer drainage may exasperate the problem somewhat, the real culprit is nearly a decade of double to triple the normal rainfall in these watersheds.

Guess what uses up more water then anything, a good healthy crop. Can't have a good crop when a third of your land is ruined from salinity, can't have a good healthy crop when the water table is at the surface. You can't even have decent duck habitat when. Their nesting, resting areas are flooded out every year.

I was a the legislature a month ago and Cathy Sproule had the gall to read a petition from Ducks Unlimited stating that 90% of the wetlands have been drained. For Christmas sakes she's the ag critic, does she not fact check this b.s. from ducks unlimited. I guarantee you that wetlands have increased ten fold over the last decade, but most of that wetland is useless as wildlife habitat because the borders are a saline wasteland.

Saskatchewan was built by farmers, not by Ducks

Well put!!!


I've questioned DU on the 90% drained thing... we have drainage here but there's more acres of cat tails and duck habitat now then 6 years ago... and they sure seem to like our shallow ponds with crop around them a lot more than DU's "projects"

[bgmb]

DU, it perplexes me how that group of of donkeys got a foothold up here. They should have been sent packing long ago.

[bgmb]

Ducks don't pay taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[farmaholic]

Honestly,......neither do American duck hunters!

[Guest]

well said , wheat king ! all these f$&king people have forgot where the food comes from