{"id":446,"date":"2025-09-08T08:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/?p=446"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:48:41","slug":"low-water-levels-on-gull-and-silver-lakes-summer-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/2025\/09\/low-water-levels-on-gull-and-silver-lakes-summer-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Water Levels on Gull and Silver Lakes &#8211; Summer 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know everyone is concerned over the significant drop in water levels on both Gull and Silver Lakes for 2025 as compared to prior years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water levels are significantly lower this year due to lake evaporation, lower than typical rainfall and a hotter than typical summer.\u00a0 The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">critically low water levels in 2025 are not part of a trend over the last number of years (at least at this point)<\/span>.\u00a0 Given that water levels of Gull and Silver Lakes are not controlled by local, provincial or federal governments, there is not really anyone we can approach to take immediate steps to address this year&#8217;s situation.\u00a0 We will continue to monitor water levels to determine if there is a longer term trend that needs our attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Davis, one of our\u00a0Board Members has prepared an excellent, more detailed presentation regarding this year\u2019s low water levels: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Water-Levels-on-Gull-and-Silver-Lakes-2025.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Water Levels on Gull and Silver Lakes 2025.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b8adfde7-c2da-44c5-90c6-3095d355985c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Water-Levels-on-Gull-and-Silver-Lakes-2025.pdf\">Water Levels on Gull and Silver Lakes 2025<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Water-Levels-on-Gull-and-Silver-Lakes-2025.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b8adfde7-c2da-44c5-90c6-3095d355985c\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s frustrating that there isn\u2019t a quick \u201cfix\u201d to this issue but we will continue to monitor lake water levels &#8211; hopefully Mother Nature will take care of the issue next year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Randy Levine, President, Gull &amp; Silver Lakes Residents&#8217; Association<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! I know everyone is concerned over the significant drop in water levels on both Gull and Silver Lakes for 2025 as compared to prior years. Water levels are significantly lower this year due to lake evaporation, lower than typical rainfall and a hotter than typical summer.\u00a0 The critically low water levels in 2025 &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/2025\/09\/low-water-levels-on-gull-and-silver-lakes-summer-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gullsilverlakes.ca\/gslra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}