The Trent-Severn Way now publishes the water levels for the entire waterway. See TSW Water levels to access this information and select the Gull River Watershed and then Kennisis lake.
Refer to Figure 1 - Kennisis Lake (Little Kennisis Lake) Water Levels. On the left side of graph the TSW measure the water levels in meters above the lowest point of the dam (the sill plate at 0 meters).
The short blue line in this example shows the Daily Water Level as recently measured. In this case the water is about 1.4 meters above the sill plate (the typical winter set level. By the second week of May the water level typically rises to somewhere around 2.9 meters above the sill plate (normal High Water mark).
Figure 1: TSW Water Levels Graph of Kennisis Lake
The graph below displays the drop in water levels on Kennisis Lake and measures the water from the high water mark. Typically during the second week of May, the water level is at the high water mark at the shoreline (this is the normal high water level at the top of the dam). The blue line depicts a wet season with higher water levels, the red line depicts a typical year and the green line depicts a dry season with low water levels.
Example: Typically during the 4th week of July the water will have dropped just over 20 inches from the high water mark (red line July 4).
For further information on water levels of the lakes in the Haliburton area click what is being done for our water levels.
Page Last Updated: March 27, 2009
