East Trout Lake cabin owners winning the fight against lake erosion
There are over 100,000 lakes in Saskatchewan and they’re gradually eating away at shorelines; sometimes this can impact cabins on the water’s edge.
According to Patrick Boyle with the Water Security Agency, lake erosion is created through a variety of conditions and affects many lakes in the province. In severe cases, there are methods to combat the power of water.
“It’s costly [to prevent it] depending on how and where it is, but they do things like shoreline improvements, or rip rap, or rock that goes along there to stabilize the bank,” Boyle said. “[Erosion] is a common occurrence that happens naturally in Saskatchewan.”
In central Saskatchewan, one group of cabin owners felt threatened by lake erosion. Over the last 40 years, Harold Schultz has spent time at the log cabin he built on East Trout Lake.