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CSLAP - Lake Monitoring
The summer of 2006 was the LGA’s third year participating in the CSLAP program coordinated by the NYS DEC and NYS Federation of Lake Associations. In 2006,
CSLAP, or Citizen Statewide Lake Assessment Program, covered 90 lakes throughout New York with 120 sampling locations.
CSLAP is our volunteer monitoring program that takes the most time commitment because the samples must be collected every week for 8 weeks from the same location from June-October. Samples are then shipped to a laboratory in Syracuse for analysis. This program provides DEC with invaluable data for long-term management purposes of lakes throughout the state.
Volunteers are trained in the spring and supplied with all the equipment and materials needed. We are fortunate to receive grant funding from the Helen V. Froehlich Foundation to cover our costs, including the sampling in 2007.
Monitoring can be done by kayak, but typically having a boat with easy access to the lake works best.
If you would like to find out more about this program, please give the LGA Education and Outreach Coordinator, Emily DeBolt, a call at (518)
668-3558 or contact the LGA online.
Look at the CSLAP reports from past years for Lake George: (pdf files)
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