Health & Safety Concerns in Tiny

Water Quality 

Please visit our page on the FoTTSA Volunteer Water Sampling Program   and our page on the FoTTSA Nitrate Well Testing Program

 

Boating and Swimming Safety

In 2001, Tiny’s Council created a Small Watercraft Committee. During the consultation period, the need for speed restrictions received significant support. At that time the limit for power driven vessels operating within 30 metres of the shoreline was 10 km/h in all of Ontario. Tiny Township applied for and received an extension of the 10 km/h speed limit to 300 meters off shore in 2003 because of the shallow water along the shore from Concessions 1 through 16. (Tow boats for water skiers are exempt from the speed limit when heading directly away from or toward the shore.) The OPP is the enforcing body but at present enforcing the speed limit is almost impossible because the 300 m line is not marked in any way.

FoTTSA Boating and Swimming Safety Survey and Results 2019

Safe Quiet Lakes website  

Boater’s Code poster

Safe Quiet Lakes Useful Links 

 

ATV and Snowmobile Safety 

Ontario Ministry of Transportation- ATVs

Ontario Ministry of Transportation – Snowmobiles 

Public Health Ontario – The Epidemiology of All-Terrain Vehicle and Snowmobile-Related Injuries in Ontario

 

Gypsy Moths 

More information here 

 

Lyme Disease 

Official Government Websites

Canadian: Health Canada

Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit

American:  Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, GA, USA

More information:
Canadian Lyme Disease Association (comprehensive information)

International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society

Lyme Disease Network

Camping Cooks Website