Protecting Keuka Lake can best be accomplished by an educated watershed public. A number of programs have been developed over the years to raise awareness and to promote good stewardship of the land and water. Youth and adult programs are offered in the watershed to residents and schools. This year alone, over 1,500 people attended educational programs in the watershed including: Conservation Field Days (400, 6th graders at Keuka Park), Summer Recreation Sites (400 youths), Camp Iroquois SAREP Fishing Education Program (600 youths), Keuka Kritters (35 youth and adults), Keuka Watershed Rural Landowner Workshop (50 adults), Keuka Lake Looking Ahead Public Forum (25 adults), KLA Annual Meeting (150 adults). In addition to the above programs, two educational publications, The Keuka Lake Book and the Keuka Lake Watershed Protection Summary, provide the fundamentals for what citizens and the communities can do to protect Keuka. They outline in practical terms, those behaviors and actions which are known to protect water quality. These publications are featured on this website and have been distributed to all KLA members and to watershed residents (Summary document only). For more information on education or upcoming events, please contact the KLA.

Suzanne Hunt, Summer Water Quality Intern, looking at water bugs with youth from Camp
Iroquois this summer (1999).