[ Home ] [ Up ] [ Docking and Mooring Proposal.htm ]

Honeoye Lake Watershed Management Plan

The Honeoye Lake Watershed Management Plan is the result of a comprehensive investigation of steps needed to protect Honeoye Lake and its watershed. It includes many action items to protect lake and watershed waters due to actual and potential sources of pollution. These pollution sources include: nutrients, septic systems, recreational use, pesticides, road salt, spills, bulk storage facilities, mined lands and erosion related to forestry, road banks, streambanks/shorelines, agriculture, development, and landfills.

The document functions as a comprehensive plan of action or road map to protect Honeoye Lake well into the future and was made possible through a grant from New York State Department of State, Division of Coastal Resources (DCR). Creation of the plan is managed by the Honeoye Lake Watershed Task (HLWTF), which has representatives from all towns in the watershed. A management plan will enhance the ability of towns and agencies to obtain state grants to fund individual projects.  

A public information meeting was held on August 22, 2005, attended by about 50 residents, to give the public an opportunity to make comments on the plan. Changes were made to address these comments and the plan was adopted by the HLWTF on November 21, 2005.

Additional changes had been made recently to satisfy state requirements required by the grant contract. There are two documents, a full Honeoye Lake Watershed Management Plan- Draft May 2007 of over 200 pages, and a Honeoye Lake Watershed Management Plan Executive Summary – June 16, 2007 of about 20 pages. These documents are available at:

http://www.co.ontario.ny.us/planning/honeoye_lk.htm

A Public Information Meeting was held on July 24, 2007 7:00 PM at the United Church of Christ where the public will have the opportunity to make comments on the plan. (Click here for charts from the presentation) The Honeoye Lake Watershed Management Plan was approved by the HLWTF on October 16, 2007. This completes all requirements of the NYS grant that supported writing the watershed plan. 

 The HLWTF, through the Town of Canadice, was awarded another grant on June 6, 2008 from NYS-DCR to address erosion related action items in the watershed plan. This work will commence later this year and will take at least a year to complete