[0:00] Are published on the management council's website.

[0:05] Director's partners and presenters, please everyone articulate into the microphone so that we can hear and understand what you intend to share. Call a meeting of the Board of Directors. Let's please start with our roll call as usual. Please take turns sharing your name and the municipality that you represent.

[0:22] Jenny Kent City of Auburn, Karen Vanloo, town of Fleming, Terry Palmer,

[0:28] Downham Riveo, Nancy Hart, town of Scipio.

[0:33] Thank you all. I don't believe that we have any representatives online with us and

[0:40] we can't see the participants the way that the Zoom is set up this morning.

[0:43] So if there are, please feel free to chime in. That be in the case we don't, I believe

[0:48] We need five for Quorum now under the new by-laws, so that being said, I think what I'll

[0:56] do for some of our business line items on the agenda is we'll just open them up for discussion

[1:02] and then we'll push the meeting minutes at least until next month, okay.

[1:08] Are there any questions about the agenda today?

[1:12] Are there any questions about the meeting minutes from last month?

[1:15] That would be the August 18th board meeting.

[1:22] I'd like to open the forum for public to be heard.

[1:25] There's anyone who wants to speak up, either a person online.

[1:28] Again, we can't see participants online currently.

[1:30] Please feel free to speak at this time.

[1:40] The new environmental.

[1:43] Oh, that's great.

[1:44] This time it's an engage in the body here and represent the association.

[1:51] That's great.

[1:52] In your name again?

[1:53] Brad.

[1:53] Brad?

[1:54] Brad, do you believe that you'll be here for the entirety of the meeting this morning?

[1:59] We're usually meet for about an hour and a half and probably be shorter today.

[2:02] We don't have a keynote this morning, but I would like to connect with you afterwards for your contact information and get to know you.

[2:09] Great. Thank you Brad. Okay.

[2:13] Okay. Anyone else?

[2:15] Members from the public?

[2:17] Okay, other ways I will dive into the the director's report and these are just updates

[2:23] project review

[2:24] and relevant project review is contained within the written director's report, but all they focus on updates this morning, as usual, okay?

[2:31] I'm going to come up to the podium this morning to give those.

[2:50] All right, concerning watershed rules and regulations, our project update for that project category is that an updated regulatory map concerning the current rules and regulations for the

[3:09] updated map. The version of the map is available on the Ooscolic Watershed

[3:14] Inspection and Protection Division website. That link was provided, and I also

[3:18] haven't pulled up on the screen here so you can take a look. So Jesse Lloyd took

[3:24] the time to upload the updated map. This is a static map, so it's not

[3:30] integrated through GIS. There is another pathway where you can use it as GIS

[3:35] yet GIS integrated and as a layer and I'll show you that momentarily, but he did provide

[3:41] a link here as well so that you can download the map and a link as well to identify whether

[3:49] or not the streams are protected under the authorities of the Department of Environmental

[3:53] Conservation.

[3:54] Okay, so that's the new map here and you can see the distinction between the new map and

[3:58] the old map.

[4:01] The protected water course information is also available, as I mentioned, as a GIS layer

[4:06] through Kiwi County Planning Department through their environmental cartography online.

[4:12] That's the EcoMapping Application and I will pull that up now so you can take a look at what

[4:17] that looks like.

[4:28] Okay, so this is the EcoMapper through the Kiwi County Planning Department.

[4:34] Do you want to play with the map layers are here?

[4:38] And then the various layers are shown and they can be checked, right?

[4:42] So then when you check a layer, it'll populate on the map.

[4:46] And for now, the watershed regulatory map is simply

[4:51] identified as a Wasco Lake Watershed Streams.

[4:55] We have asked that the QQ County Planning Department

[4:57] consider updating that term or that layer definition,

[5:02] something along the lines of maybe protected streams

[5:04] or regulated streams, help giving us a little bit more

[5:08] visibility on the fact that these are regulated

[5:11] and protected streams. So I'm just going to click on that and you'll see that those streams

[5:20] now populate is a layer on that eco-mapping application. Okay, so that's all I'm going to show

[5:27] you for that so far. But we are very excited about this project. We've been working on this for

[5:32] over a year at this point and I think it's a really important step for us in the right direction.

[5:39] Okay, under recognition awareness education and outreach projects for updates,

[5:43] It's the August 21st staff feature article in the citizen, spotlighted the effects of residential herbicide and pesticide use that was led by Jesse Lloyd, the upcoming feature article spotlights the updated watershed protection stream map that I just explained to you.

[6:01] Okay, under the nine element watershed plan, of course that we are implementing now for a project update.

[6:08] The committee that was formed, the nine-element coordination committee, is focused on developing

[6:12] stream corridor projects based on recommendations from our recent assessment project for sucker

[6:17] in Vanessa Brooks. The subgroup recently convened with a local

[6:20] forward to discuss associated project recommendations for targeted reach along their property, and the

[6:27] next 90 committee meeting is planned for September 23rd. Under watershed lake and tributary monitoring for

[6:36] for a project update. The bi-weekly OASCO-like tributary monitoring program was conducted on

[6:43] August 24th, 2026, as well as just yesterday, of course, on the 14th of September. And with

[6:51] a continued collaboration between Kieger County Planning Department, Aula, Management Council

[6:56] Council staff and SUNY ESF.

[6:59] And SUNY ESF is supporting with analysis of data that are being collected and provided

[7:09] for by the accredited lab that's running those data.

[7:13] And I'll give you a sense of some of the approaches they plan to use for analyzing interpreting

[7:18] data and presenting those data to us.

[7:27] So, SUNY-SF students, they've been assisting the partnering professors that we work with

[7:32] on the project from ESF with the development of Infographics and so that's what I'd

[7:37] like to show you.

[7:39] In fact, you know what I'll do is I'm going to pull up a few slides I wanted to share with

[7:44] you this morning.

[7:52] Right.

[7:52] So let's see.

[7:56] There's a good way to really blow this up.

[7:58] I should be able to give it a little bit larger just from opening it up the full slide deck.

[8:06] Okay, there we go.

[8:07] So this is what they're calling an infographic.

[8:09] This is one example.

[8:11] And so this one's titled Too Much of A Good Thing.

[8:13] What is phosphorus and what you can do to reduce your impact?

[8:16] So as you know, phosphorus is a key focus for reduction under the nine element plan.

[8:22] Again, the plan being called the plan for phosphorus reductions specifically.

[8:27] And that is as leveraging phosphorous limitation to curb

[8:31] eutrification of the lake, including reducing harmful algal blooms.

[8:35] So they talk a bit about what phosphorous is.

[8:38] It's a vital element, but where it becomes problematic,

[8:42] where it comes from, and then you'll see the small graph figure

[8:45] they have on the lower right, total phosphorous and awasco,

[8:47] like tributaries, and it reviews the trends over the course of the year.

[8:53] So I believe we can expect to see more of these, what they're calling, infographics to help

[8:58] depict the trends for the water quality constituents that were monitoring for the tributaries this

[9:03] year.

[9:08] Okay.

[9:09] They will also be giving, as soon as it will also be getting underway with a program called

[9:12] Sharks, it's sampling for healthy aquatic resources with community support.

[9:16] When Jesse presents his slides this morning, he'll review some of the features of that

[9:21] particular program.

[9:22] But really it's in a program that supports student training for analyzing water quality

[9:27] parameters and community engagement on water quality research.

[9:31] And there was a program that I'll have supported greatly last year with voluntary sampling.

[9:39] Okay, moving on.

[9:41] Just for a quick update on our land holdings, right?

[9:44] So as a reminder to the group, we have two, as you know, we have the Film More Nature

[9:47] Preserve and now the Venice Nature Preserve.

[9:50] So, we've been in contact with our stewards of Venice Preserve recently.

[9:57] The Venice Preserve contracted stewards are planning to build and install approximately

[10:01] three to four wood duck boxes in and around the pond area for that preserve.

[10:07] They have observed several mating pairs of wood ducks and they believe they may be resident

[10:12] birds, along with a number of other wood ducks moving in and out of the property during

[10:17] migration.

[10:18] So, I have engaged with them to ask whether or not they would do us a solid and take some

[10:24] photos of the work, track progress, and they have agreed to do so, maybe develop a small

[10:30] report for us that they can share with the board, and give a sense of what's going on over

[10:33] at the Venice Nature Preserve.

[10:36] Under the grant projects programs funding and opportunities category for updates there,

[10:42] We are a laser focus on the sustainer, great lakes,

[10:47] OASCO inlet, stream bank stabilization project.

[10:50] I know you've heard a lot about it, but we are heavy with implementation on that project.

[10:54] The contractor being the Kiwi County soil and water conservation district that's doing the implementation.

[11:02] The district is currently stabilizing one bank, they're finishing up with one side of the bank at what's

[11:11] site 5B, that's the first construction site, and they are now moving down further downstream

[11:17] to continue work under the same site, site 5B, but for the second section, and then

[11:23] really what we're considering, the third section will be work on the opposing bank.

[11:28] And Jesse has some photos of that project that he'll share in his slide deck as well.

[11:33] For an Aula grant update, Aula, of course the Owasco Lake, the Owasco Watershed Lake

[11:38] association with much gratitude from us recently funded the council's new unmanned aerial

[11:45] vehicle as we better know is a drone, which is used for monitoring watershed conditions

[11:52] and other prospective projects.

[11:54] I believe at least one, if not several of Jesse's photos, that he'll display this morning will

[11:58] show how that drone is already being used for monitoring projects in the watershed.

[12:05] Okay, for a proposed project that day, I shared last month that there's a new grant program

[12:12] and solicitation from the DEC for HABS Research, Harmful Algo Bloom's Research.

[12:18] And we are partnering with Global Aquatic Research.

[12:22] You may remember that group.

[12:23] We've partnered with them in the past on a proposal.

[12:27] We wrote a letter of support for the proposal submitted by Dr. Richard Smith of SUNY Brock

[12:33] report and that the title of that is the role of P&N that's phosphorus in nitrogen containing

[12:39] organic matter infueling microcystus blooms in the finger lakes.

[12:43] So we would be one of several lakes that they would study under that grant.

[12:47] We have committed to providing some in-kind match and if they get the project it would also

[12:53] be a small source of revenue for us to cover some of our time.

[12:56] And I provided more details in the written report but I won't go over all of that.

[13:03] Okay.

[13:03] Right,

[13:08] so under New York State relevant bills and rule makings, I do want to provide an update on the New York State

[13:14] leachate rule making.

[13:16] This has been sort of a, I would say, progressive approach by those of us who work in the space who are looking to get better protections around

[13:26] leachate discharge to wastewater treatment facilities where it is not adequately treated before being released to the environment.

[13:36] So, as a signatory, the Management Council joined the New York River Watch and River Keeper along with organizations and community groups from across New York State and calling on the New York State DEC to strengthen its proposed regulations and adopt comprehensive enforceable protections for human health and the environment.

[13:54] For decades, hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic landfill leachate have been sent to sewage treatment plants across New York State, most without pre-treatment before being discharged into New York State waterways.

[14:05] The DEC's proposed regulations are important for step yet they are limited in scope.

[14:11] The letter urges DEC to strengthen the proposed regulations by requiring pre-treatment for

[14:16] all landfills, collecting leachate, including inactive facilities, requiring treatment of

[14:22] PFAS and other contaminants to the most protective applicable standards, ensuring treatment technologies

[14:29] keep pace with the best available science, preventing toxic contaminants from being transferred

[14:35] from lead shade into other waste streams, establishing strong financial reporting monitoring

[14:40] and permit requirements, and ensuring that polluters, not local communities and taxpayers

[14:45] bear the cost of managing toxic lead shade.

[14:49] This is a reminder.

[14:51] The reason this is important is that if you can envision all of the chemicals that would

[14:56] collect at the bottom of a landfill due to precipitation mostly rainwater.

[15:01] That currently is being allowed to be delivered to wastewater treatment facilities to run through their system, where there is no treatment mechanism for removing those contaminants before it's discharged into our waterways. So this is a very important issue in my opinion. One more sign on letter to wrap up the report. We signed a public comment letter to the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency regarding their failure to include microplastics, monitoring requirements,

[15:29] under the proposed sixth unregulated contaminant monitoring rule.

[15:35] So really just trying to make sure that they're keeping up with their obligations

[15:40] when it comes to what are considered emerging contaminants.

[15:46] Okay, that's it. So I'd like to open up the forum to any feedback from the board of directors

[15:52] and representatives from the municipalities. Any thoughts, comments, questions?

[16:00] Yes, yes, so this is what they're calling an infographic, the professors that we partner

[16:07] with on the tributary monitoring program, they've put their students up to help you

[16:12] them not only with the data analysis but preparing these infographics for us, right?

[16:17] So this is important for us, right?

[16:18] So as a watershed management group and we work closely with lake managers, we're a data

[16:23] driven organization.

[16:25] We want to understand what's going on, we want to make our decisions and project

[16:30] determinations based on what science is telling us, right?

[16:33] So ensuring that we're having good interpretation of the data and that we're tracking what's

[16:39] going on from a water quality standpoint is critical to our efforts.

[16:44] Adam, how is the phosphorus level in our lake or do it, Jesse?

[16:50] The phosphorus levels in the lake?

[16:52] In the past, they said it's not that high in a wasco lake.

[16:54] Yeah, so that's what's really interesting, right?

[16:57] So a wasco lake is, many of the finger lakes

[17:02] is considered a nutrient poor lake.

[17:05] So it has relatively low nutrient content.

[17:08] It rides somewhere between oligotrophic and mesotrophic

[17:11] to sort of like low level of primary production

[17:15] or eutrophication.

[17:16] Essentially, those are terms that

[17:17] are associated with the growth of macrophytes

[17:19] or weeds, and algae, and sort of an intermediate level of production would be the mesotrophic

[17:26] definition, right?

[17:27] So they're glacial lakes, they're nutrient poor, and so that leads to the question that

[17:32] many researchers are now studying, why are we experiencing these harmful algal blooms, right?

[17:36] So like, what are the adaptive strategies of the organism, the cyanobacteria that allow

[17:41] them to access nutrients in nutrient poor lakes so that they can manifest these blooms,

[17:47] these toxic blooms in the surface?

[17:48] Some of the emerging research is showing that they are adept at resourcing nutrients from

[17:54] the bottom of the lake, and there is likely a significant pool at the bottom because

[18:00] that the receiving water body has been receiving watershed runoff and nutrients and sediments

[18:07] that have pooled in the bottom of the lake for decades now.

[18:12] So it is a curiosity and it certainly encourages the need for a continued research to understand

[18:18] why we're better understand why we're experiencing these blooms in these nutrient-poor systems.

[18:26] Any other questions?

[18:32] Presentation.

[18:36] Presentation.

[18:36] Presentation for what?

[18:41] Yes.

[18:44] So we don't have a presentation yet set up with them.

[18:46] What I would like to do as we've done in years past is when they've completed with their

[18:53] their analysis of the lab accredited data that we've collected that they can come in and they can actually present the trends that they've identified to help us understand how we want to move forward.

[19:07] It's not scheduled yet. Yeah. You're welcome.

[19:17] Okay. Any other questions? Comments? Concerns?

[19:22] Okay. Otherwise we do not have a keynote today.

[19:27] We will shift on to

[19:40] our Treasurer's Audit and Finance Report.

[19:45] And these will be the August 2026 financials.

[19:48] Joan is not with us today, of course, as our treasurer and Jenny Kent offered to provide the financials for August for us.

[19:56] Thank you, Adam.

[19:57] Welcome.

[19:58] So this is, as Adam said, August 2026 figures.

[20:02] dollars, Tom Pins checking, $255,399.55. Total current assets, $556,410.30, total liabilities

[20:21] and equity, $584,513.79.

[20:29] Questions?

[20:34] Thanks, Jenny. So, we'll bring those back again next month for Quorum, hopefully Quorum.

[20:41] And then we can bring a motion for approval then. Thanks, Jenny.

[20:46] All right. With that, next on the agenda is a lake level report update with John West. I believe we have John on with us this morning. Good morning, John.

[20:55] Not

[20:59] too much, really.

[21:06] We have to put the rate to get first week of the month,

[21:09] so we're just operating in that range.

[21:12] As far as drawing down, we'll see how we move over

[21:15] the next month as possible.

[21:17] Mentally, I told you we could start drawing down.

[21:19] Depending on where we're at,

[21:21] I'll be too late, I told her.

[21:23] We start with that.

[21:25] And then, like obviously, we're testing for abs every Tuesday, Thursday.

[21:29] We're pretty consistently getting positive results back

[21:32] that we're on anywhere from a half to one part for a billion.

[21:37] I imagine we'll be a history of probably being

[21:39] a wait for at least another one for yourself.

[21:41] That's all I have.

[21:44] Thank you, John.

[21:44] That's a level down on the micro-system.

[21:47] Is that neat?

[21:48] Where's the proponent?

[21:49] Jesse, you probably have to speak into the mic.

[21:51] So I hate town.

[21:52] I was just asking, what's the actual level for the micro-system though?

[21:59] Well, so the numbers I'm giving you, so I think we were on numbers.

[22:03] Our finished water numbers are not intact.

[22:05] They should make accurate. Those of the raw water they cover, there's no real action well on the raw number. On the digital waters, it's a point three. There's where there be public information.

[22:28] Thank

[22:30] you, John.

[22:32] John, you initiate the carbon filtration systems annually and seasonally regardless of whether

[22:38] or not there's a hit, right?

[22:40] What

[22:43] we do is we kind of move visual line three of what's coming to the plant will take the sample.

[22:47] I'm right through a way of memory and feel free to put it on the right condition.

[22:51] And you can kind of see some of the, you know, some of the regrets that we know the season might be starting.

[22:56] At that point, we'll take an initial test.

[22:59] And if we have a non-attack in the raw water, we'll wait another week and take a test.

[23:03] Then once our raw water starts to have a hit, then we'll test twice a week until we have the point where we start having non-attacks in the raw water.

[23:14] Great. Thanks for that information, John.

[23:17] Good.

[23:20] Okay. Very good. Moving on. I see that we have Gabriel Yurden with us representing the New

[23:25] York State DEC Finger Lakes watershed program. Good morning, Gabriel.

[23:28] from

[23:34] the resources that have opened up like Ontario Lake White Action Management plans are available for public viewing comment

[23:45] importance of the 2012 Great Lakes Waterbuckle Agreement and drafts just 23 in 2007

[23:53] they might actually amend the plan or land early Ontario in a draft of the 2024-2028 land

[24:01] of the theory that they're prepared and they're available for public comment through September

[24:06] 25th.

[24:08] I reminded that the clean waters they were involved in, but during the waters they were involved

[24:12] with the plan, draft intended these plans for the next fiscal year are also open for public

[24:19] comment.

[24:20] and there's another week that will come in period close on September 23rd.

[24:26] And our binder that there are going to be a report station round remains open.

[24:31] The album is going to be open to the second round of $20 million.

[24:35] From now on, back in London, for a lot of field tree planting

[24:38] and forest restoration products, those grants are of $300,000 to $3 million

[24:45] and with water content, such as their smaller projects,

[24:49] on the size of the 1000, and that opportunities

[24:52] open till November 4th.

[24:55] And a little more needs are related,

[24:58] need from BEC, BEC is looking around,

[25:01] collecting tree fruits and cubs,

[25:04] and pays by the threshold to, for, really,

[25:07] a forest and harvest them.

[25:09] This is to support the more than 1.2 million seedlings

[25:13] for a year, I've just paid the tree, actually, through a

[25:17] collection program, the third ground, the Saratovich tree,

[25:22] nursery, and then they help support New York's

[25:25] free forestry and projects across the state by

[25:28] growing native forest species.

[25:32] So we're looking first to spread that word out to the community.

[25:36] And lastly, recently announced the increase of grants,

[25:40] through the years to be best focused on the program and this one day wants to arena

[25:45] as Miss Palatine support will install an upgrade boat, suit it without their exclusion

[25:50] and factor water quality, best for recreation, tourism, fishery, and coastal ecosystems,

[25:57] and arena owners, Miss Palatine and non-profit organizations that will apply for the grants,

[26:03] those are through the SCE and environmental facilities for preparation,

[26:07] and are accepted on an early basis.

[26:10] and that's funded through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through person-fishing

[26:15] for men and motorboat fields. That's on the continued available funding for

[26:20] station and facility upgrades and needs forters, facility operations, maintenance, and public education.

[26:27] And that's why I was wanting to thank you.

[26:30] I have a question for you.

[26:32] Could you, what is the con-collection thing again?

[26:37] I will post some or out for some information.

[26:43] The atom of the easiest pays participating people across the state

[26:49] to help collect seeds, cones, and berries from trees and bushes that they grow

[26:55] at the state tree nursery, and that's all aimed at helping the near state tree forest

[27:20] So is that something that school groups or Girl Scout, Boy Scout, 4-H groups could get into?

[27:29] Yeah, absolutely. And obviously, the Senate, what there, who's doing it, but some of these pay up to $135.00 or so per

[27:42] commercial, or it's a great, you have a community building or public outreach opportunity also.

[27:48] And so do they contact the local DEC to get into something like that?

[27:53] Yeah.

[27:55] Yeah.

[27:55] I will give them their rejects.

[27:57] And then if you're hired, just make sure that they have a hinder quote out for each individual's

[28:01] EC is any soon as you get confirmation that they're still looking for SBC then you can coordinate

[28:08] into collected, ship, ship, or a total of EC on this.

[28:14] So how about that?

[28:15] Thank you.

[28:19] Thanks for your question, Terry.

[28:22] Thank you.

[28:23] Any other questions for Gabriel?

[28:27] Thank you, Gabriel.

[28:29] All right, let's move on to an update from Aula,

[28:32] from the Wasco-Archer Lake Association.

[28:33] Do you have anything for us?

[28:35] You want to share?

[28:39] Come up to the mic there if you would.

[28:43] Board of Directors meeting on Wednesday,

[28:46] and then we'll have just a strategy meeting for board members on Saturday and 19th.

[28:57] We've got the ESF grant that we're funding their study in PFAS and chemicals in the

[29:04] Alaska Lake.

[29:05] That should be coming up.

[29:07] There was a preliminary approval, they'll start probably fall and spring, should have

[29:13] results in the year, so we're working on the hemological, the adalgae program is moving

[29:20] a long or funding about 46,000 and treatments for trees in high-risk areas and we're in

[29:32] ditch remediation projects trying to make sure that their diss erosion is under control

[29:37] or out in the watershed.

[29:41] There was a highlights we're starting now to think about the Bob Brewer scientific symposium

[29:46] plans for March 13th, 2027.

[29:52] That's great.

[29:53] Thank you Dr. Dreyer.

[30:01] That's great. We certainly appreciate Aula's partnership and all things. All right. Moving on, we'll move on to our watershed inspection monthly report with Jesse, Jesse Lloyd.

[30:33] Good morning, everyone.

[30:36] This is a photo from the old ruined bridges of Wasco watershed collection. This one's on Old Genoa Road in Locke. If anybody knows of the kind of these old retired bridges,

[30:49] I was speaking with our resident who had an old Creosel bridge on his property and was wondering if there was any kind of money or projects to get rid of them.

[31:04] And I think if we knew where there was more bridges that maybe need to be taken out for various reasons that maybe we could get some kind of projects started.

[31:15] So if anybody knows of any old bridges that looks us back, you know, might be taken out and let me know and I can add them to my list.

[31:25] This one is an old general road lock on Hemlock Creek.

[31:31] Yes, are they personal use bridges and personal property?

[31:36] Yeah,

[31:39] you know, typically these bridges are older and defonked and kind of fallen apart.

[31:44] So, yeah, just if there's anything that might be interesting, let me know, come check it out.

[31:51] Thank you.

[31:57] So, there's already a follow-up site suspected.

[32:00] It's kind of nice this time of year.

[32:02] A lot of sites are kind of wrapping up, and they're getting stabilized, getting their grass in, and getting complete.

[32:08] The five sites that are completed.

[32:11] I know the new sites discovered this month.

[32:15] Let's see, this is all over the watershed here.

[32:23] Completed two rounds of trip areas sampling with ALO, as Adam said that this is what was

[32:30] our last scheduled event.

[32:31] There is a talk and maybe a possibility of doing a storm water sampling event in the

[32:38] near future, but we're not sure about that one yet, we're going to have to get together

[32:42] with ALO and make sure that they have the funding for it and the manpower.

[32:47] Where is that?

[32:48] What's that?

[32:49] Oh that one that's right as it going out of gravy on 38 yeah so

[33:01] I spoke about

[33:01] this project last month a little bit we're trying to get these trails rehabbed

[33:06] on the south and wasco lake around the swamp there we're gonna be having a

[33:11] meeting with the wetlands trust to county parks and trails and ala to see just

[33:17] to have everybody get down there take a look at what we got try to figure out

[33:21] exactly what needs to get done and how much it will cost, how we're going to do it,

[33:25] trying to keep momentum going on this project.

[33:28] It's going to be, once we get down there and we get these things cleared out,

[33:31] it's going to be really interesting and be really good for the community.

[33:37] So these are, if you walk the trail, it goes along the Wasco inlet

[33:41] and you can kind of see the inlet in the background.

[33:43] It's real slow and swampy through there.

[33:46] This is the, I put this picture here because this is the power of Willow.

[33:50] Somebody cut this piece of Willow and just stuck it in for a

[33:53] the holder fishing rod and it started to grow and this

[34:01] is the north part of the

[34:04] trail where parks and trails has been maintaining this boardwalk for at least

[34:10] a decade maybe more but it will connect with you know the snow cloud

[34:18] turnaround area to this and then back up the road and then down the road to

[34:23] tracks, hopefully that's the ultimate goal of this project.

[34:31] I help, you know, often people call me about permitting questions, which knowing exactly

[34:39] what kind of permits that you need to do, what kind of job with the DEC is kind of sometimes

[34:43] difficult to figure out, I have a couple of, especially one woman I know in the DEC that

[34:49] works in this department, and she is great, you know, I just get pictures to gather with

[34:54] there and just send her a general email, send her the information and she tells me exactly

[34:58] what kind of permits and what agencies we need to talk to.

[35:05] So somebody out with doing that this month, and

[35:14] this was kind of interesting, this is

[35:15] over on Firelink 26, I've never seen this before, there's these old defunct outhouses right

[35:22] by the lake and you see that there was a lot of,

[35:27] you know, there's a big dumpster here that's

[35:29] getting filled up. And so I spoke with Pat Dwayne, who was a code officer for this area

[35:33] and Chris Scholl, who works with the Department of Health, and turned out that this area wasn't

[35:38] pretty bad disarray, and it had gone, the people had not been paying their taxes and went

[35:44] up for tax sale until for 800K. And so they were in there getting this stuff cleaned up, both

[35:51] the Department of Health and code officer are very happy to see this property getting cleaned

[35:56] up because it was quite the mess in the past.

[36:00] Are there plans for that property?

[36:02] From what I heard, they're going to get it all cleaned up and then subdivided into four

[36:06] lots.

[36:07] I'm not sure if they're going to build before they sell it or what their plans are, but I don't

[36:13] know.

[36:13] It's a great piece of property.

[36:15] It's, you know, right as beachfronts like 900 feet right on the lake level.

[36:19] Yeah.

[36:20] There's not a lot of properties like this one, so I think they'll have a good return on their

[36:25] investment.

[36:31] So here's this toggle site that Adam was referring to. This was on September

[36:36] 2nd. These pictures here, you can see that they've shorted up this bank. There's this

[36:41] corner here that was getting eroded pretty heavily. You see this is obviously a work in

[36:48] progress that's not finished yet.

[36:52] These pictures were taken from our new drone. Aula gave

[36:58] us money for a new drone. We got a Mavic 4 DJI. It's an awesome drone. I kind of have

[37:06] trouble figuring out how to watch the videos on it yet, so I need to download an app

[37:12] but I'm going to look into that more.

[37:16] But this site, this particular reach here at this

[37:18] corner is pretty much finished up. We have Willow planted and we're going to be moving down

[37:23] the stream about 100 feet to do the next reach. Which is going to be very similar kind of

[37:29] rip rap hard scape protection.

[37:36] It was happening on September 3rd in Locke, downtown.

[37:39] Everybody kind of expects it to happen.

[37:42] Coming down the hill on 90, you know,

[37:44] blew through 38 and ended up overturning

[37:47] before going around the corner.

[37:51] When you see it, it was like, oh man,

[37:52] this is a total mess.

[37:53] Luckily, it wasn't.

[37:54] There was no petroleum spill in from this.

[37:56] We contacted the DEC to see if, you know,

[38:00] maybe they would take over the cleanup.

[38:01] but they're only take over cleanups when there's other petroleum or what's you

[38:07] know consider hazardous material and this dry trash cannot follow on to fall

[38:11] underneath that criteria.

[38:16] I'm not sure exactly where it was going now yeah yeah

[38:22] That truck was loaded.

[38:24] Oh, yeah.

[38:25] Well, like a couple of hours to get it.

[38:28] Took a long time.

[38:29] Damaged your cars and the house next to you.

[38:31] Took a utility.

[38:32] Oh, two to me.

[38:33] Yeah.

[38:34] Did anyone get your mail that day?

[38:36] Yeah, that's how you get into the post office right there.

[38:44] Yeah, so they came down the hill on 90.

[38:46] And

[38:50] again, here's some drone footage of it.

[38:54] I couldn't get it to take a lot of photos with the drone

[38:57] because you can't fly the drone over people's heads and there was quite a few

[39:01] agencies and people milling around here so I had to kind of be careful where I flew

[39:05] the drone. It's a pretty good shot.

[39:11] Oh so when I first got there they thought

[39:13] that there was a storm drain right underneath all this trash so I went down to see

[39:17] where it went into the inlet but turned out that there was not a storm drain

[39:21] there so that was a good thing. There really wasn't any water quality issues

[39:26] is associated with this one.

[39:33] We had a resident called Pat Doyle, a codes officer.

[39:37] He said that there was this pile of dirt

[39:40] that just showed up at the end of Old Genoa Road

[39:42] and that they were convinced that it came from somebody

[39:47] doing work on a septic system.

[39:49] And so Department of Health was called, actually,

[39:53] DEC, we came in.

[39:54] We kind of all went down there, did our little investigation,

[39:57] to try to figure out where it came from, we ended up finding out that it was not from

[40:03] a leach field but it was a bi-distribution back box for a septic system. There wasn't

[40:11] any clear obvious signs that there was septic in this material. If it had been, then we

[40:20] spoke to the DEC, they said, hey, if you guys figured out that conclusively this has material

[40:25] from septic system in it, they would have, you know, quickly issued a violation and started

[40:32] to clean up process on this.

[40:35] But we determined that it's really not a hazard to the area.

[40:42] Like Adam said, the Shark Sam, ESF has the Shark Sampling event coming up October 3rd.

[40:47] I'm going to get this up on our Facebook website, so if anybody wants to get out there to

[40:53] get some sampling, do some sampling.

[40:56] So basically our office is going to be a collection point, we'll have a bin out there that will contain sampling containers.

[41:03] All you got to do, you take a sampling container and there'll be pieces of paper that is pretty easy to fill out.

[41:11] You know, it will take you through it, you send the QR code and you take a picture of your site which will give the latitude and longitude of the sample, fill out the label, bring it back, and that's all you really got to do.

[41:22] So the point of this sampling event is to be a snapshot of one particular time.

[41:29] So I believe this is, it's usually a Saturday or Sunday that they do it and you're supposed

[41:34] to take the sample between like a two hour window with pretty interesting event.

[41:45] This is what it looked like from last year.

[41:49] You can see that all these over here are the sampling locations from last year and you can

[41:53] click on them and get the information associated with them. They don't have all the information

[41:59] up yet. You can see like phosphorous and nitrates are all zeros for these. They need

[42:05] to populate that data yet for a lot of these samples. But that's

[42:14] it. Any questions or comments?

[42:21] If anybody is interested in the Shark Sampling event, let me know and be able to give you further

[42:27] information. Thank

[42:31] you, Jesse. Great work.

[43:01] Before we wrap up here, there were just a few more slides

[43:03] I wanted to breeze through with the boards to provide a few updates on some of our projects here.

[43:11] Okay, so this was a solicitation that came out recently from the Kiwi County Planning Department.

[43:15] Of course, our closest working partner there, Michelle Wonderlick. She's organized what she's

[43:21] calling a stormwater smart workshop that will be on October 10th from 10 a.m. to 1130

[43:26] at Emerson Park at Doval Island at the shelter there.

[43:32] And what it is is it's hands-on activity that will provide a live demonstration on how

[43:37] to compost effectively, how to reduce food waste at home and also exploring what the carbon

[43:45] footprint is and how you can reduce yours.

[43:48] And from what I see here, there will be a free compost bin, one per household that will

[43:55] be a walk away item for those who participate in this event.

[44:00] So please feel free to circulate this with your municipalities, colleagues, and I think

[44:06] it's a positive event and composting is very important.

[44:14] And I just wanted to provide an example of the reports on the ongoing, sustainable and

[44:20] lakes, grant project that we're operating, the Stream Make

[44:23] Stabilization Project on the OASCO inlet.

[44:26] So one of our contractors is EA Engineering.

[44:29] And they've been on site, working closely with Jesse,

[44:31] to track progress at the site, make sure

[44:34] that we're implementing the project according

[44:35] to our permit guidelines.

[44:37] And so they just have a reporting document every time

[44:39] they're on site, they go through this document.

[44:41] They fill out the various features of the document

[44:43] to track the construction.

[44:45] And there are some photos here that are provided

[44:48] within that document, and these are slightly newer than what Jesse showed. You can't see

[44:55] it very well, but the top two photos do show the willow being installed.

[45:00] So that's really the latest, that installation was the end of this last week. So we're happy to see that what we call soft practice being installed there along the stream bank.

[45:13] Again, the willow being staged in that photo on the top left and lower right. So that's it.

[45:22] Okay. Anyway, I, uh, before we wrap up here, I'd like to open the forum to any further communications for the group. Yeah, I'm just curious, where does that willow come from?

[45:32] Right, so that willow is an in-kind contribution to the project in partnership with SUNY ESF.

[45:42] They have a field station in Tully that has a wide swath of willow growing around the

[45:51] field station and you know it's very generous of them to bring that material to bear for

[45:57] this project and of course we're very grateful for that.

[46:04] in the other points of communication before we wrap up.

[46:08] Any issues of concern?

[46:10] Okay, I'll share with the group.

[46:12] As we know, we didn't have quorum today,

[46:15] and we are, and you'll note at the top of the agenda,

[46:17] with all of the directorships listed,

[46:22] as well as the representatives for each municipality's

[46:25] directorship on the board, that we are shy on representation

[46:29] now from a couple of municipalities.

[46:31] In particular, both the town of Dryden,

[46:34] You'll recall we had Anne Clark, she typically joined us remotely, so I'll reach out to

[46:39] Anne to nudge her.

[46:40] She encouraged that she would engage with the board to request that they fill her vacancy.

[46:47] And then, of course, also the town of Huasco with Ed's departure.

[46:49] So I did, I wrote a formal letter to the town that was delivered to the board for review requesting

[46:55] that they fill that role to represent on our board.

[46:58] And of course, they have yet to do so.

[47:00] I haven't heard anything.

[47:01] So I'll nudge the town of Huasco as well.

[47:03] any

[47:07] other issues of concern?

[47:10] Okay with that let's schedule our next meeting from

[47:13] what I can tell what we can stay consistent with our common schedule. The

[47:16] third Tuesday of September of course is our excuse me of October is the 20th

[47:24] and we all will maintain this in-person and zoom-integrated setting for the

[47:29] group. May I have a sponsor to adjourn?

[47:35] All those in favor? Okay motion carries

[47:38] Have a great day, thank you all for being here this morning.

Owasco Lake Watershed Management Council 09-15-26

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