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MAY 18, 2023—It was a high-energy, deep-commitment evening at The Inn of Lake George. The LGA’s first gathering of next-generation professionals in support of protecting Lake George surfaced strong connection to and sense of responsibility for the Lake. 

The Lake George Association (LGA) is excited to announce the launch of a web app that provides residential and commercial property owners across the Lake’s watershed with a detailed evaluation of how their property’s physical characteristics may be impacting Lake George. Accompanying the analysis is a personalized, science-based recommendations people can implement to protect water quality.

This is the first in a series of four articles in Lake George Living magazine to help us all understand the connection between septic systems and the health of the Lake and our community. It was co-authored by Chris Navitsky, Lake George Waterkeeper, and Doug Wholey, owner of Ideal Excavating and Certified Septic Inspector, for the April 2023 issue.

For his vision and perseverance, his energy and generosity, his life-long love of our Lake, we at the Lake George Association are deeply saddened by the passing of Buck Bryan on April 16, 2023.

The increasing pressure on the water quality of our Lake calls for increased protection, said LGA president Eric Siy during an Earth Week interview with News10 ABC on April 18, 2023. The Lake Protector initiative, created by the LGA in 2022, addresses this mounting need.

The Lake George Park Commission has taken a critically important step toward the enduring protection of Lake George with its new wastewater regulations and mandatory septic system inspection and pump-out program. Congratulations and thank you to the Commissioners and LGPC staff!

Few family names are as synonymous with Lake George and its protection as Hawley. Now, that proud family tradition is entering a new era, as the Lake George Association has named Lake George native and longtime New York City publishing and digital marketing executive Nancy Hawley as Director of Marketing and Communications for the Lake’s preeminent protection organization.

LGA President Eric Siy urged Gov. Hochul and the New York State Legislature to significantly increase funding for the Lake George Park Commission during a recent interview on The Capitol Pressroom public radio program.

The (Schenectady) Daily Gazette is calling for New York State to consider the many scientific concerns raised by the Lake George Association, Lake George Waterkeeper, local municipalities, and worried citizens, and withdraw its application to use a chemical herbicide in the Lake for the first time ever.

The Albany Times Union is once again standing with the Lake George Association, Lake George Waterkeeper, local municipalities and thousands of concerned citizens in opposing New York State’s proposed first-ever use of a chemical herbicide in Lake George.

Continuing their effort to stop the first-ever use of a chemical herbicide in Lake George without proper scientific analysis of potential consequences, the Lake George Association and Lake George Waterkeeper today provided New York State regulators with detailed comments as to why the latest herbicide permit applications from the Lake George Park Commission are seriously flawed and should be deemed incomplete.

Lake George Mirror Editor Anthony F. Hall recently authored this report on the New York State Supreme Court ruling invalidating the Adirondack Park Agency’s 2022 approval of permits to treat 7.6 acres of Eurasian watermilfoil with the herbicide ProcellaCOR.

The Lake George Association has appointed environmental educator Jaimi DeFeo as Manager of its new Education for Action Program. This purpose-driven program is dedicated to helping property owners throughout the Lake George Watershed, as well as members of the regional business community and the public, understand the environmental challenges facing Lake George and how to participate in Lake protection.

New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert Muller has issued a decision prohibiting the use of the chemical herbicide ProcellaCOR in Lake George until such time that the Adirondack Park Agency holds an adjudicatory hearing on the potential adverse impacts and finds the proposed use to be safe for the Lake.

Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky recently joined Jesse Jackson of Look TV for an in-depth interview about the many unanswered scientific questions surrounding the proposed first-ever use of a chemical herbicide in Lake George.

LGA President Eric Siy recently discussed our serious concerns about the many unanswered scientific questions surrounding the proposed first-ever use of a chemical herbicide in Lake George with David Lombardo of The Capitol Pressroom radio program.

The Lake George Park Commission’s latest proposal to use a chemical herbicide in Lake George leaves us with more questions than answers about the possible adverse impacts to the Lake’s specially protected waters and ecology. We’ve prepared a new fact sheet to help you understand our concerns.

The Lake George Association and Lake George Waterkeeper are once again asking you to help protect Lake George from the first-ever use of a chemical herbicide.

Despite the opposition of more than 4,500 concerned citizens last summer, and a pending
Feb. 17 hearing in New York State Supreme Court in Warren County, the Lake George Park
Commission is once again submitting an application to the Adirondack Park Agency and the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to use the herbicide ProcellaCOR
in the Lake for the treatment of Eurasian watermilfoil.

The Lake George Mirror has published a remembrance of the late LGA Vice Chairman Jeff Killeen.

Friends and community leaders remember the late LGA Vice Chairman Jeff Killeen in a tribute article in The Post-Star.

The Board of Directors and staff of the LGA are mourning the passing of Vice Chairman Jeff Killeen, one of our Lake’s greatest champions and protectors.

The Lake George Association has appointed Danielle Brown of Queensbury to the newly created position of Development Manager. Ms. Brown’s appointment expands and strengthens the LGA’s development team as it continues building the long-term philanthropic support essential to protecting the Lake’s legendary water quality.

The science-based protection measures that the Lake George Association is applying to Lake George are also becoming models for freshwater protection outside of our region.