The Honeoye Lake Watershed Task Force (HLWTF) fall meeting has been scheduled.
Honeoye Lake Watershed Task Force Meeting
Honeoye Public Library
Thursday November 3rd, 2016
6:00 PM
Privilege of the Floor - Limit 3 minutes each speaker
Approval of July 28th, 2016 minutes
Financial Report
Honeoye Lake Weed Harvesting Program Update – Betsy Landre, OCPD
2016 Season update
Shoreline Pick-up Barge update
2016 Yard Waste Composting Project Update –Betsy Landre, OCPD & Terry Gronwall, HLWTF
DEC WQIP Round 11 Honeoye Lake Restoration Project Update – PJ Emerick/M. Webster S&W
DEC WQIP Round 12 Inlet Restoration Project Update – PJ Emerick/M. Webster S&W
DEC WQIP Round 13 Mill Creek Streambank Stabilization Proposal – Emerick/Webster S&W
DEC Honeoye Lake Total Maximum Daily Load Project Update – Terry Gronwall, HLWTF
Target schedule - Draft TMDL Report Spring 2017 & Final TMDL Report Fall 2017
Climate change on shallow NYS lakes grant (Collaboration with Dr. Hairston Cornell)–B Gilman, FLCC & T Gronwall, HLWTF (Presentation update is last agenda item)
Ontario County Water Resource Council Funded Projects
Preliminary Study of the Role of Nitrogen in Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the Finger Lakes (Honeoye Lake) ($2,000) – Roxanne Razavi, Finger Lakes Institute
- Sampling completed late September. Test results pending.
Sandy Bottom Park Natural Plant Garden ($1,684) – PJ Emerick, OCSWCD
- Second phase of natural shrub planting pending rip rap shoreline decision.
Electronic Macrophyte Mapping Service for 2016 ($925) – Terry Gronwall, HLWTF
- Made three aquatic vegetation maps for our weed harvesting crew. Summer 2016
2016 HLWTF Projects
Educational Outreach Newsletter (Oct.) – T. Gronwall, HLWTF/E. Davey, OCSWCD
Collect lake water quality data May-October – T. Gronwall, HLWTF
Blue-green Algae sample collection for NYSDEC (Jun-Oct) – T. Gronwall
New Business
Approval to pay OCSWCD 3Q16 Services Invoices for $4,933.50
Climate change on shallow NYS lakes grant project presentation (Year 1) – Bruce Gilman, FLCC
Adjourn
Next Year’s (2017) HLWTF Meeting schedule:
January 26th, April 27th, July 27th, October 26th at 6 PM at Honeoye Public Library
