SPRING SEASON 2020 CHAUTAUQUA LAKE PARTNERSHIP UPDATE

 

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SPRING SEASON 2020 CHAUTAUQUA LAKE PARTNERSHIP UPDATE   The Chautauqua Lake Partnership (CLP) hopes this update finds you healthy and safe as we move through the current pandemic emergency! The cold and wet weather has all of us looking forward to warm and sunny days.  The warm weather gets growing anticipation of enjoying our beautiful Chautauqua Lake. CLP has continued to work throughout the winter and spring to make the 2020 lake season the best ever!  We continue our multifaceted approach to help the development of a healthy, vibrant water-body for everyone.  CLP has expanded our program to include monitoring phosphorous levels in the lake, assist in shoreline clean-up (Moby Trac), and continue to facilitate municipal permitted herbicide treatments. More details follow: The phosphorous monitoring program, in conjunction with Bowling Green State University, will continue for 2020.  Monitoring the 16 tributaries entering the lake is underway and there will be four phosphorous sensors and one nitrogen sensor deployed in the lake.  Data will be collected and examined to begin mapping hot spots feeding the blue algae in the lake. We continue to facilitate, along with the Alliance, improved weed fragment cleanup along the shoreline.  There will be four Moby Trac units managed by the Town of Chautauqua and assisted by the CLA. We have worked with all local municipalities to provide and plan for herbicide treatment in 2020, with the assistance of Solitude.  We began our work this year with a new herbicide, ProCellaCor EG, which has been approved for use and was included in the permit applications to NYSDEC.  The permits are pending, awaiting the weed surveys, which have been delayed to June because of weather keeping the water temperatures below 50 degrees.  This new herbicide is a welcome addition because it has no water use restrictions of significance. CLP joins all who enjoy Chautauqua Lake in renewed hope and prayer that the current pandemic subsides allowing for a beautiful summer season of lake enjoyment. Please consider helping CLP in our mission to assist in comprehensive lake water improvement by joining and donating to support our ALL volunteer efforts.

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