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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
On 8/13 there was an LWRP group tour analysis of Silver Lake and next week there will be a tour of the Silver Lake State Park. Join the tour at the Park and help provide input to make the lake a more beautiful/sustainable place to live! Go to the Water Quality Reports tab for more information and updates!
LEMONADE STAND RAISES OVER $100 FOR CLEAN!
Wow! These kids raised over $100 on July 3rd at their lemonade stand in the Institute to support our mission and keep the lake CLEAN! Thank you to Peggy Phillips' grandkids Maddie, Nathan, (neighbor) Carolyn and Abby for your donation to CLEAN at Silver Lake!
PERRY HIGH SCHOOL LATEST SILVER LAKE WATER QUALITY REPORTS
CLEAN partner Todd Shuskey, RSA of New York State's Teacher of the Year, and his students at Perry High School have published their latest Silver Lake Report highlighting:
- Fyke net-based fish counts to support the DEC’s Big Pan Fish Initiative.
- Macrophyte surveys.
- Zebra mussel size distribution at the lake’s N- and S-ends
- Secchi depth measurement
- Zooplankton.
- Depth-dependent O2 and pH measurements
****These are all measures of lake health and vitality.
Native Planting Sites
The informational native planting site map indicates areas that have been 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. Go to the Planting Projects tab for more information. The CLEAN and the SLA water quality team installed a new, vinyl display case and map at the Silver Lake State Boat Launch.
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).