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Skaneateles Lake Watershed Management Plan

January 1998
Errata incorporporated October 1999

The City of Syracuse contracted with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County in June of 1997 to provide a lake management plan report for the EPA by December 1997. To learn more about efforts to protect the Skaneateles Lake Watershed, visit EPA's Skaneateles Lake Source Water Protection Page.

Prepared by:

Sheila Myers, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Onondaga County

Lee Macbeth, City of Syracuse Department of Water

Russ Nemecek, Onondaga County
Environmental Health Council

Prepared for:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
and
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

 

View the Plan (Note: Information in plan may not be up to date.)

 

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