Annual BBQ Dinner Notice # 2
Just a quick reminder that our annual BBQ dinner is fast approaching. We posted this information last week however we heard a few people may not have received this post or the notice ended up in their SPAM folder. As such we are resending the information to all CLPOA members.
The event is Saturday August 30th at 5:00 PM is the date and time of the event. As most already know, we have a new process this year to book and pay for tickets. Adult and children tickets can be reserved by logging into your account, filling out the RSVP form and paying for all adult tickets.
Upon arrival, the member paying for the tickets will check in at our registration table, collect and distribute their tickets to their group prior to anyone entering the food line. Tickets will be presented by individuals as they proceed through the line.
As a member of the Clear Lake Property Owners Association, you are welcome to invite family and friends to accompany you.
Tickets are limited so please book your tickets as soon as possible.
Hope to see you there, your CLPOA Board.
Annual BBQ Dinner
Just a quick reminder that our annual BBQ dinner is fast approaching. Saturday August 30th at 5:00 PM is the date and time of the event. As most already know, we have a new process this year to book and pay for tickets. Adult and children tickets can be reserved by logging into your account, filling out the RSVP form and paying for all adult tickets.
Upon arrival, the member paying for the tickets will check in at our registration table, collect and distribute their tickets to their group prior to anyone entering the food line. Tickets will be presented by individuals as they proceed through the line.
As a member of the Clear Lake Property Owners Association, you are welcome to invite family and friends to accompany you.
Tickets are limited so please book your tickets as soon as possible.
Hope to see you there, your CLPOA Board.
Clear Lake Regatta
Lake Lovers
Updated AGM Event Start Time
Due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts at the hall, please be advised that the AGM meeting start times have changed. Please note the changes within the original communications.
The Member’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) is being held on July 6th at the Winning Techniques Hall on Bay Lake Rd and Hwy #592. Registration for property owners that have not yet renewed their 2025 membership AND coffee and muffins for attendees starts at 9:30 AM, the AGM meeting starts at 10:00 AM. We welcome your input and as always, we are there to answer questions or concerns from our members.
The second event is the Annual Members Golf Tournament being held July 19th at the Ridge Golf Club, 328 Sunny Ridge Rd, Sunridge, Ontario. The best ball tournament features a shotgun start with tee offs at 8:30 am sharp. Includes 9 holes of golf, coffee and breakfast treats, a great lunch and a prize table. The cost is $80 per player. We have a new registration process this year whereby logged in CLPOA members can pre-register groups of up to 4 players and pay the group’s event fees by filling out and submitting our online RSVP event form. We can accommodate up to 52 golfers so please book as early as possible to avoid being left out. Club carts are limited and although requesting one on the RSVP form gives us an indication as to how many carts are requested, cart assignments and payments are arranged through the Golf Club on a first come first serve basis.
Come early for breakfast and to meet other players on your team if you did not submit a full 4some.
Hope you can join us!
Your CLPOA Board
Lake Partner Program Update
The Lake Partner Program is a great example of community water monitoring, bringing together community volunteers with a shared interest for lake preservation.
FOCA has partnered since 1996 in the Lake Partner Program (LPP). The LPP is a province-wide, volunteer-based, water-quality monitoring program – the largest of its kind in Canada! Each year, hundreds of volunteers collect total water samples and make monthly water clarity observations on their lakes.
June 2025 – Our voices were heard! FOCA has a signed agreement with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) that enables us to continue the LPP over the coming five years, with the support of our hundreds of volunteer Lake Stewards throughout the province.
Thank you to the 900+ supporters who wrote the Premier, the Minster of MECP, and their MPPs asking for this outcome.
We also just got our first water quality test results back in June and they look great! You can see the latest results by logging into your member’s account and clicking on the Water Quality Reports within the MEMBER AREA.
Posting Category Redefined
At our AGM last year, we committed to share more local information deemed important for Owners and Residents of Clear Lake. To broaden our current communications platform, we have renamed the Fire Rating category to Community Information and will now include additional posts on any news deemed critical within our area. You can still access open air burning rules, rating explanations and current fire ratings within this category or alternately through direct links provided on our Resource Page.
Protect Clear Lake – Speak Up Now!
We were recently informed by FOCA (Federation of Cottagers Association) that the Ontario Government is considering defunding the Lake Partner Program (LPP). There is a vote scheduled in the next week to make that decision. If defunding is approved, our water quality monitoring program at Clear Lake is at risk.
In response to this information, Brian Isard, our Director, Water Quality sent the attached letter (Support of LPP-for-FOCA May 6th) to the Premier and two other Ministers responsible for this program.
We invite all association members to email these Government Officials to reinforce our collective position on the importance of water quality monitoring AND therefore continuing to fund the LLP.
Here are their email addresses.
Hon. Doug Ford, Ontario Premier premier@ontario.ca
Hon. Todd McCarthy, Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks minister.mecp@ontario.ca
Hon. Kinga Surma, Minister of Infrastructure kinga.surma@pc.ola.org
Thank you in advance,
Your CLPOA Board
New Website
Dear Clear Lakers,
At our last AGM, your Clear Lake Property Owners Association Board committed to addressing many of the communication issues brought forward by members over the years and to that end, we’re pleased to announce our new interactive website.
While the web address remains the same, we’ve updated the functionality to provide more effective tools and make renewing your membership much easier.
Keep up to date with the goings on in our lake community, local contractors and special programs available to all CLPOA members.
In order to be able to take advantage of all these wonderful upgrades, you’ll have to register first “here”. Be confident that we have taken all the steps necessary to ensure your information privacy and web transaction security.
Upon registration, you will be able to password protect and manage your own personal information, sign up for future events and get access to money-saving programs.
If you’re worried about missing updates in the future, don’t be. We’ve made that easier too so when we make any update on the new website, you’ll be notified of the update to your email address on file and we will include a simple link that will take you directly to the posted information.
Please make sure to encourage all your neighbours who might not be members to join us, they really don’t want to miss out.
Sincerely, Your Clear Lake Property Owners Association Board
Water Quality
As a lake association one of our responsibilities is to monitor changes in Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria levels and phosphorus levels in Clear Lake. We take water samples and have them tested through Near North Laboratories which is accredited by the Canadian Association for Analytical Laboratories (CALA). We also conduct lake water testing for phosphorus levels and water clarity through the Lake Partner Program operated by the Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks.
We report the testing results to the Clear Lake property owners but the CLPOA has no power to enforce water quality standards. Enforcement is done through the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit who do the actual testing of water for public beaches and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. When E. coli bacteria levels exceed the recreational water quality guideline of 200 E. coli per 100 mL of water the beach may be posted as unsafe for swimming. The maximum acceptable concentration for E. coli in drinking water is zero count detectable per 100 ml.
Between the months of June and September, the CLPOA collects lake water samples from between five and seven locations around Clear Lake, in the bays in-front of beach areas and public access points. Water samples are collected on a monthly basis but may be altered if we received heavy rainfall which impacts lake water quality as it washes ground surface contaminants into the lake.
Clear Lake water testing results are typically in the range of 0-5 cfu per 100 mL of water at the start of testing and may increase to the range of 5-10 cfu per 100 mL towards the end of the summer in the bays which have more activity.
Water sampling may be increased if testing results point to rising E. coli levels due to fecal contamination from either animal or human sources such as leaking or poorly functioning septic systems.
Lake water testing is also conducted to monitor the levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous in the lake which can cause blue -green algae, which are microscopic organisms naturally present in lake water to rapidly increase when lake water is warm and slow moving. When this happens dense algae blooms form on the surface of the lake and along shorelines.
Our goal is to better understand and help protect the water quality of Clear Lake through a planned water quality monitoring program.
