News

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.

Randy Rath has been applying his technical expertise to help homeowners, businesses and municipalities protect Lake George for two decades. As he marks his 20^th anniversary with the LGA, we congratulate him on his accomplishments and his well-earned reputation as a Go-To, Can-Do resource for Lake protection projects of all types and sizes.

The LGA encourages everyone who cares about the future of Lake George to speak out in support of the Lake George Park Commission’s proposed new wastewater regulations, with one important change that will make them consistent with state Health Department standards.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has determined that two “small, localized” harmful algal blooms occurred on Lake George on Oct. 26, according to the department’s online tracking system.

The LGA congratulates Chris Navitsky on his 20^th year as Lake George Waterkeeper!

The LGA is pleased with New York State voters’ overwhelming support for the Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022. You can read our full statement here.

Aging and failing septic systems are one of the leading contributors to the nutrient loading in Lake George that leads to increased algae growth and, potentially, harmful algal blooms.

Our new AlgaeWatch program is working!

One of our volunteer AlgaeWatchers has notified the LGA and NYSDEC of a suspicious concentration of cyanobacteria along the shoreline of Basin Bay, which is now being studied by scientists with The Jefferson Project, the environmental research collaboration between the LGA, RPI and IBM Research.

This Election Day, New York State voters will have the opportunity to approve $4.2 billion in bonds for projects that will safeguard the environment, natural resources and water infrastructure, and help mitigate climate change.

The LGA and Lake George Waterkeeper, and our co-complainants, the Town of Hague and a lakeside resident, are awaiting word from New York State Supreme Court as to the scheduling of oral arguments in our lawsuit against the Adirondack Park Agency and Lake George Park Commission relative to the use of the herbicide ProcellaCOR in Lake George.

The Lake George Association has launched a new citizen science program called AlgaeWatch and is seeking volunteers to monitor their favorite areas of the Lake for excessive algae growth and, especially, harmful algal blooms (HABs).

Approximately 200 elected officials, municipal highway crew members, business owners, scientists and not-for-profit leaders gathered in Lake George and online on Thursday, Oct. 13, for the LGA’s Seventh Annual Adirondack Champlain Regional Salt Summit. The day-long event provided presentations and demonstrations on keeping winter roads, driveways and parking areas safe while reducing the cost and environmental consequences of road salt use.

LGA Managing Program Director Monika LaPlante was recently featured in The Daily Gazette’s “Getting to Know …” series spotlighting “people making a difference in the lives of others.” Get to know Monika a little better and learn why protecting Lake George has been a lifelong ambition.

One of the world’s foremost authorities on the importance of clean water will bring his passion and perspective to the shores of Lake George on Thursday, Oct. 13, as the keynote speaker for the Lake George Association’s seventh annual Adirondack Champlain Regional Salt Summit.

The Lake George Association has appointed Lake George native and accomplished environmental project manager Monika LaPlante to the newly created position of Managing Program Director.

The Lake George Association commends Gov. Kathy Hochul, the Commissioners of the Lake Park Commission, the members of the Commission’s Ad-Hoc Committee on Septic Systems, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for taking a historic step toward sustainable water quality protection with the newly proposed Lake George wastewater management regulations.

The Board of Directors of the Lake George Association (LGA), the preeminent protector of the Queen of American Lakes, has elected Pete Menzies as Chairman.