Welcome to CLEAN@Silver Lake An Environmental Organization
Let's make our community a better place!
CLEAN PARTNER TODD SHUSKEY AND HIS STUDENTS MONITORING SILVER LAKE
Check out this article about Todd Shuskey and PHS students work monitoring Silver Lake's Water Quality. Click the link below for up to date results of their studies.
DUMPING LEAVES IN THE LAKE IS AGAINST THE LAW
RAKING LEAVES IN THE LAKE
WHICH CAUSES HARMFUL ALGEA BLOOMS
CREATES MORE WEEDS IN THE LAKE
IT IS AGAINST ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW TO RAKE LEAVES INTO THE LAKE
Contact DEC’s Law Enforcement Conservation Officers if you have any questions or concerns. (716) 851-7050)
CREATES MORE WEEDS IN THE LAKE
WHICH CAUSES HARMFUL ALGEA BLOOMS
CREATES MORE WEEDS IN THE LAKE
Removing excess weeds in the lake is much harder than disposing of your yard waste properly. When the weeds are this bad, they need to brought on shore and removed.
WHICH CAUSES HARMFUL ALGEA BLOOMS
WHICH CAUSES HARMFUL ALGEA BLOOMS
WHICH CAUSES HARMFUL ALGEA BLOOMS
Please help educate your friends and neighbors regarding this law and encourage them to properly dispose of their yard debris.
DEC’s officers do routine boat patrols on the lake.
Native Plantings Update
Native Plant Update – 95% of the native plants installed since 2016 are flourishing
The CLEAN team has been diligently checking the stakes, weeding, and maintaining the cages
The CLEAN team has been diligently checking the stakes, weeding, and maintaining the cages
CLEAN at Silver Lake has been passionately rejuvenating the lake’s ecosystem by restoring native plants. With six active planting sites in the watershed, we’re making a significant impact.
Beyond their environmental benefits, these plants create essential habitats for a diverse array of wildlife, including fish, birds, and crucial pollinators. Join us in our mission to protect and enhance Silver Lake’s natural beauty and health
The CLEAN team has been diligently checking the stakes, weeding, and maintaining the cages
The CLEAN team has been diligently checking the stakes, weeding, and maintaining the cages
The CLEAN team has been diligently checking the stakes, weeding, and maintaining the cages
Native plants are nature’s own filtration system, absorbing harmful nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen that cause toxic algae blooms.
They also trap sediments and pollutants, significantly enhancing water quality. Their deep root systems are vital for stabilizing the shoreline, effectively preventing erosion from waves and runoff.
Native Planting Site Map Indicating areas completed to date
The CLEAN team has been diligently checking the stakes, weeding, and maintaining the cages
Native Planting Site Map Indicating areas completed to date
The Wyoming County Soil and Water Conservation District (WCSWCD) staff are working with landowner(s) to secure appropriate permissions for potential planting sites for 2024 and 2025. .
WATER QUALITY/DREDGING NEWS
Local Water Revitalization Program (LWRP)
The Local Water Revitalization Program (LWRP) is a partnership with waterfront communities across NYS to address local waterway issues, improve water quality and natural areas, guide development to areas with adequate infrastructure and services away from sensitive resources, promote public waterfront access, and provide for redevelopment of underutilized waterfronts. The LWRP uses substantial public input and then serve as keys to unlock doors to resources to implement (for Silver Lake – dredging is a focus). More information on the LWRP can be found at: https://dos.ny.gov/local-waterfront-revitalization-program
LWRP Outlet Tour led by Joy Kuebler to discuss ideas for development and improvement of the area
Temperature Array
The Silver Lake temperature array has been successfully rebuilt, relocated, and reinstalled. A BIG shout out to Rob Ritz and Karl Hanafin for designing and constructing the new, more robust array. Rob and Karl also installed the new system at its new location.
The temperature array is designed to accurately record depth- and time-dependent data from the lake at 15-minute time intervals throughout the year. These data are used to observe in-lake mixing events / ‘turn over’ in real time. In the warmer summer season, lake-wide mixing events are often precursors to algae blooms (nutrients from sediment in the lake sediment + delivery to the lake surface + sun light = algae growth).