The Lake George Association has been awarded an Aquatic Invasive Species Spread Prevention Grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program for the 2019 season. The $5,300 grant will be used to continue the Lake George Association’s invasive species public education and outreach programs, focusing on: Personal interactions with visitors and boaters throughout the season at…
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LGA Supports Mandatory Inspections With Financial, Scientific Assistance
The Lake George Park Commission’s Mandatory Boat Inspection Program has completed another successful season, and the Lake George Association is proud to both financially support the inspections as a partner as well as assist in the identification of the biological samples that were removed during the inspection process. The LGA each year invests $30,000 from…
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Reducing salt usage in Lake George begins with you
By Kristen Wilde Director of Education Now that the New Year has arrived and winter with it, the Lake George Association would like to offer some tips on snow and ice maintenance on your property (or at your business) so those actions do not contribute to the salt load in the Lake. And, like the…
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Slow Down, You Move Too Fast …
We’re trying to make the Lake water quality last With apologies to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, there’s an important program starting this winter on Route 9N that will slow (and potentially stop) the increase in salt in one major road corridor along the shore of Lake George. Starting this winter, the New York State…
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Lake George Communities Win Multiple Regional Economic Development Grants
Congratulations to our partner municipalities for the awards announced today in Albany at the Regional Economic Development Council ceremony: Town of Bolton: $600,000 for Rogers Memorial Park Waterfront Sustainability improvements – something your LGA is supporting with money toward the grant’s local match requirement. Town of Bolton: $1,000,000 for improvements to the Town’s wastewater treatment process, reducing the volume…
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Yes, the Queensbury Septic Law Is A Good Model
By Walt Lender, LGA Executive Director It’s all about clean water in Lake George. It’s all about long-term Lake sustainability. It’s all about being responsible. Queensbury’s “Septic Inspection Upon Property Transfer” law, passed by the Town in October, took months of community discussion and civil debate throughout the town. Many ideas were shared, were dissected,…
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Many Hands Stop Stormwater In Hague; Lake-Saving Project Completed
This time of year, Lake George Association Project Manager Randy Rath spends much of his time in the field, directing and managing Lake-Saving Projects on behalf of the LGA and its members. Lake-Saving Projects are those that the LGA performs to make positive changes on properties to protect the Lake’s water quality, and to give…
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Diamond Point Resident Carla Burhoe Elected President of LGA Board
Peter Menzies elected as Executive Vice President Diamond Point business owner Carla Burhoe has been elected President of the Lake George Association’s Board of Directors for 2018-19. Carla and her husband, Tom, own Canoe Island Lodge in Diamond Point, a resort that was founded by Carla’s mother and father, Jane and Bill Busch, in 1946….
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It’s Up To You To Protect Lake George: Fall Edition
By Walt Lender Lake George Association Executive Director You are key to protecting Lake George. Yes, you. How are you key to protecting Lake George’s water quality? You control a system that every day, with every use, prevents nitrogen, phosphorus and bacterial pollution from getting into the Lake’s Class AA Special water – and only…
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LGA’s Second Round of Public Beach Testing Shows Beaches Continue To Be Safe
As the busy month of July comes to a close, the Lake George Association has completed its second round of testing of public beaches around the Lake for harmful bacterial levels as part of our scientific monitoring regimen, which helps the LGA ensure Lake George water quality is protected. As with earlier scientific sampling (which…
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