LAKEWOOD — Even even though the proposed Chautauqua Lake District met its fate, County Executive PI Wendel is focused on the science connected with the lake.
At a current perform session, the Wendel shared his thoughts with the Lakewood Village Board of Trustees. If it would have been authorized, the village would have been component of the lake district.
“So we’re just going to maintain moving along,” Wendel stated. “I’m focused on the science. We’ve performed a lot with the Jefferson Project. We’re going to continue to perform with them. Science is actually what’s driving the lake.”
Trustee Ellen Barnes stated she would like to have only a single group undertaking research. Wendel countered by saying it is OK to have much more than a single group undertaking research, but his a single difficulty with that situation is a single group might say its information are superior than other groups’ information. An instance, he stated, is exactly where Group A dismisses other groups’ information, and labels it psuedo science for the reason that the information does not align with Group A’s information.
“To say their science is pseudo science for the reason that it does not suit your narrative is a pretty difficult issue,” Wendel,” stated.
According to jeffersonproject.rpi.edu, The Jefferson Project at Lake George — a groundbreaking collaboration amongst IBM Investigation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The FUND for Lake George — expanded its statewide leadership part in the study of dangerous algal blooms and other water-high quality threats lately with a new $1 million study project on Chautauqua lake, produced probable by means of funding from Chautauqua Institution and a county coalition. The new study complements The Jefferson Project’s foundational study plan on Lake George in Warren County, now in its eighth year.
Each Chautauqua Lake and Lake George are amongst the (two priority waterbodies identified for specific protective efforts by New York State, as component of its dangerous algal bloom (HAB) initiative, and are at intense ends of the HAB spectrum.
Chautauqua Lake has been severely impacted by dangerous algal blooms (HABs) for decades, specifically in its southern basin, when Lake George, broadly regarded. as. a single of the clearest and cleanest lakes in the nation, seasoned its 1st confirmed HAB. The Lake George HAB was somewhat compact and brief-lived, and samples gathered at the time are now the topic of an intensive scientific evaluation by Jefferson Project researchers to identify its result in.
Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy Executive Director John Jablonski Il stated in the Jan. 15 edition of the Post-Journal that researchers from the Jefferson Project, SUNY-Fredonia, and Bowling Green State University are applying various sampling and monitoring approaches more than various years with the intent to superior fully grasp the watershed nutrient loading and internal nutrient loading to the lake and the lake stratification, climate, and wind situations as they relate to what triggers problematic dangerous algae blooms.
“It’s just insane, the quantity of technologies that is in that lake suitable now,” Wendel added.
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