Support the Road Salt Right to Know Act – Please send an email by June 4! New York’s winter road maintenance practices help to keep drivers safe but often rely on the excessive application of road salt, which can contaminate our lakes, rivers, and streams, and impair drinking water supplies. This is a particularly challenging […]
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Upcoming Regional Conferences!
Indian River Lakes Conservancy Water Quality Conference – Friday June 5th in Redwood, NY. NYSFOLA Lower Hudson Regional Conference – Friday June 5th at the Sedgewick Club on China Pond in Carmel, NY. Adirondack Lakes Alliance Annual Symposium – Friday June 26th – Paul Smiths College Visitors Interpretive Center Columbia-Greene (Upper Hudson) Conference – Wed, […]
2026 Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program
It’s official! This year we will have 212 sites on 199 lakes making it another record breaking year for CSLAP. Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who make this possible. New Volunteers! Training is required. In addition to the Lake George session on Saturday May 9th, Nancy and Alene will be holding small, regional […]
Round 4 of DEC’s Invasive Species Grant Program is Now Open
The Invasive Species Grant Program is designed to advance projects across the state that help prevent, detect, respond to, and restore sites impacted by both terrestrial and aquatic invasive species. Since it’s inception the grant program, now in it’s fourth round, has funded over 100 unique projects. Round 4 includes four individual funding categories intended […]
CSLAP Monthly Webinar Dates
We hope you’ll join us on Fridays from noon-1PM to learn and ask questions about CSLAP. CSLAP Participants will be sent the link prior to the webinars. If you didn’t receive one, please email Nancy Mueller. July 18th – Equipment blanks, duplicate samples, field blanks, and more! Quality assurance for CSLAP. August 15th – Harmful […]
Check Out the CSLAP Dashboard
The 2025 Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program is underway. This year we have 200 sites on 186 lakes with over 600 volunteers conducting sampling. Volunteers can enter data on DEC’s CSLAP Dashboard, and the 2019-2023 electronic reports can also be found there. Thank you to all of our volunteers, DEC’s Brian Duffy, Alene Onion, and […]