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Gleniffer Lake

Field	Value
name	Gleniffer Lake
location	Red Deer County, Alberta
coords
type	reservoir
inflow	Red Deer River
outflow	Red Deer River
catchment	5610 km2
basin_countries	Canada
length	7 km
pushpin_map	Alberta
width	2 km
area	17.6 km2
depth	11.6 m
max-depth	33 m
elevation	945 m

| max-depth = 33 m Gleniffer Lake, also known as Gleniffer Reservoir or originally Lake Gleniffer |access-date=2012-06-16 is an artificial lake in central Alberta, Canada created in 1983

It lies at an elevation of 945 m, and is approximately 7 km long and 2 km wide. The lake is south of Highway 54 and east of the Cowboy Trail, 36 km west of Innisfail, Alberta and 36 km east of Caroline.

The lake has a surface of 17.6 km2, and a watershed of 5610 km2. It has an average depth of 11.6 m, and reaches a maximum of 33 m.

Gleniffer Lake has day-use areas, cottages, a campground and resort developments including Carefree Resort and Gleniffer Lake Resort.

The lake reservoir is a source of drinking water for the surrounding area.

Dickson Dam

Dickson Dam regulates the flow of the Red Deer River to control for floods and low winter flows, to improve quality of the river, to create a recreational resource and to provide a reliable, year-round water supply sufficient for future industrial, regional and municipal growth.

Gleniffer Reservoir Provincial Recreation Area

Gleniffer Reservoir Provincial Recreation Area (PRA) has a beach, various fishing areas, boating, camping and resorts. In the summer of 2009, Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation consolidated six provincial recreation areas at Dickson Dam and around Gleniffer Lake (Dickson Dam–Cottonwood PRA, Dickson Dam–Dickson Point PRA, Dickson Dam–North Dyke PRA, Dickson Dam–South Dyke PRA, Dickson Dam–North Valley PRA, Dickson Dam–South Valley PRA) into one provincial recreation area renamed Gleniffer Reservoir PRA. Motorboating, waterskiing, swimming, and sailboarding are allowed. There are rainbow trout in a trout pond. Northern pike, walleye, Rockies, and brown trout are also found nearby. Gleniffer Reservoir PRA has trout ponds including one at Dickson Point, which is popular for ice fishing.

Environmental concerns

Pipeline leaks

Increased water flow of the Red Deer River system during heavy rainfall in June 2008 eroded supporting soil, freely exposing a section of Pembina Pipeline Corporation's Cremona crude oil pipeline to the Red Deer River currents. About 75 to of crude oil flowed upstream from the breakpoint under a Red Deer River channel, leaving an oily sheen on Gleniffer Reservoir and 6800 kg of oil-soaked debris.{{cite report |access-date=2012-06-16 |archive-date=April 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420105353/http://www.ercb.ca/docs/documents/reports/IR_20090219_PembinaPipelineFailure.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=2012-06-16 |access-date=2012-06-16

Rangeland pipeline incident

Heavy rains in early June 2012 caused a similar but larger leak on a Plains Midstream Canada 46-year-old pipeline at Jackson Creek which spilled between 1000 and of light sour crude into the Red Deer River.{{cite news |access-date=2012-06-16 |archive-date=2012-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620120511/http://www.calgaryherald.com/Ewart+Calls+growing+probe+aging+pipeline+system/6793089/story.html |url-status=dead

References

University of Alberta - Atlas of Alberta Lakes. "Gleniffer Lake".
"Archived copy".
Alberta, Government of. "Header and Footer".
"Town of Bowden Alberta - Tourist Information - Visitor Information - Bowden Campgrounds - Red Lodge Guest Ranch - Bowden Daze - Pioneer Museum - Bowden Sunmaze".
(10 July 2017). "爪水虫の飲み薬の投薬上の注意 - 感染した水虫を絶対に治す！".
"Plains Midstream Canada".

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