Water Ski-Wakeboard Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

The lake was proposed to alleviate annual spring runoff and flooding problems in South Transcona. For many years the residents of South Transcona had endured annual spring flooding. After the Great Flood of 1997, funding was available to rectify the flooding problem. Construction on the lake began in the Fall of 1997 and concluded in the Spring of 1998, funded jointly provided by the Province of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg. Total cost of the project: $3.5 million. Water levels are controlled using a damming system at the entrance of the lake and a pumping station which lowers water levels.