Keuka Lake Looking Ahead
A Community Listens to the Lake
This page contains the contents of Keuka Lake’s watershed management plan that was published by the KLA in 1998. The plan is 350 pages long and contains a comprehensive description of the watershed resources, sources and impacts of pollution and recommendations for actions to protect and improve water quality. The entire document can be downloaded as separate acrobat files or a CD version can be purchased by contacting Peter Landre, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Yates County, ptl2@.cornell.edu. The following text provides a description of each of the files. To download, simply double click on the file name. If you need a free copy of Acrobat Reader, click on the icon below:
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Contents (131KB) This file contains the table of contents for the report.
ch01_3.pdf (199KB) This file contains the Executive Summary, Background and Scope of the report.
ch04_5.pdf (8,845KB)This file contains the statement of goals and objectives and a descriptionof the watershed including water resources, geology, soils, topography, climate, land use, vegetation, wildlife, fisheries, population and political subdivisions, housing, economic profile, municipal water revenues, and recreational value.
ch06.pdf (1,788KB) This file contains the description of the lake limnology and stream testing programs, including the results of physical, chemical and biological testing and analysis.
ch07_01.pdf (2,223KB) This file contains the analysis of agricultural sources of pollution and chemical bulk storage facilities.
ch07_02.pdf (1,157KB) This file contains the analysis of deicing salt sources of pollution.
ch07_03pdf (14,705KB) This file contains the analysis of development trends and impacts in the watershed.
ch07_04.pdf (761KB) This file contains the analysis of forest resources in the watershed.
ch07_05.pdf (1,000KB) This file contains the analysis of hazardous waste sites in the watershed.
ch07_06.pdf (990KB) This file contains the analysis of inactive landfills (dumps) and their potential impact on the watershed
ch07_07.pdf (905KB) This file contains the ranking of landfills in the watershed.
ch07_08.pdf (960KB) This file contains the analysis of mined lands in the watershed.
ch07_09.pdf (1,365KB) This file contains the analysis of onsite wastewater systems (septic systems) and petroleum bulk storage facilities in the watershed.
ch07_010.pdf (841KB) This file contains the analysis of recreation issues in the watershed.
ch07_11.pdf (1,198KB) This file contains the analysis of residential land use and roadbank erosion sites in the watershed.
ch07_12.pdf (1,407KB) This file contains the analysis of SPDES and streambank erosion sites.
Ch08.pdf (72,338KB) This large file contains detailed maps of each of the subwatersheds (30) in the Keuka Lake basin.
Ch09.pdf (141KB) This file contains the Problem Definition for the report.
Ch10a.pdf (539KB) This file contains the first third of implementation recommendations.
Ch10b.pdf (317KB) This file contains the second third of implementation recommendations.
Ch10c.pdf (987KB) This file contains the final third of implementation recommendations.