Welcome to the Honeoye Valley Association (HVA) Website!

The first of the 2018 Lake Weed Mapping has been completed. The early season mapping shows heavy weed densities. The maps can be seen at the 2018 Weed mapping web pagehttps://hvaweb.org/2018-Weed-Mapping

The 2018 Weekly Lake monitoring of water temperature and water quality have started. The most current data and commentary is below. The history of 2018 data can be found at the following link:  https://hvaweb.org/2018-weekly-Lake-Data/

The Gronwall's visual BGA Update for Monday September 17th.

Monday morning (9/17), Today the blue-green algae bloom that has been

occurring for the last several weeks appeared to be subsiding. The lake had

only very light visible algae in the water column and no surface scum at all

10 of our monitoring sites. However, a few of our sites still had very

green looking water. If we get clear sunny sky conditions with clam winds

we could see the blue-green algae move back up to the surface later this

week.

We have had confirmed complete water column mixing events on August 22nd

and September 10th providing nutrients to fuel this BGA bloom.

Always use your own visual assessment before making contact with the lake

water at this time of year as the blue-green algae situation can change

daily if not hourly. The DEC will report on their assessment of our

blue-green algae bloom situation for this week late Friday afternoon on

their BGA alert web page.

The 2018 Lake Symposium has been held. The presentations can be found using this link: 

https://hvaweb.org/2018-Lake-Symposium/

IMPORTANT!!!

The HVA board has sent letters of support for the Governor's proposed Harmful Algal Bloom $65M program to Senator Rich Funke and Assemblyman Brian Kolb who represent the Honeoye Lake area.  The letters, their contact information and some suggested words to send can be viewed on the HVA website by clicking on this link.  https://hvaweb.org/NYS-HAB-Initiative/

We encourage each of you to contact these legislators individually to ask for their support for this important initiative.  Please take time to call, write or email them to encourage their support.  By going to the sites below you can send an email to Sen. Funke and/or Assemblyman Kolb.

Senator Rich Funke:  https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/rich-funke/contact 

Assemblyman Kolb:  http://nyassembly.gov/mem/Brian-M-Kolb/contact 

The 2015 Guide to Lake Friendly Living can be see via the following link: Lake guide