July 6, 2019 | Press Release
July 6, 2019 | The FUND for Lake George today presented nearly $500,000 in grants to seven organizations and municipalities to assist in their work to keep the Queen of American Lakes clear and clean.
June 16, 2019 | Newsletter
June 16, 2019, The Post Star | Harmful algal blooms, road salt, invasive species, public and private projects, and other water quality topics will be covered at The FUND for Lake George’s annual meeting.
June 4, 2019 | Article
May 29, 2019, Post Star | Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky said the park has been doing better than expected in removing potential contaminants from the lake. Environmental officials had the goal of removing 50% of the phosphorous and 90% of the total suspended sediments running off from the Route 9 commercial corridor. The actual numbers show that 85% of the phosphorous has been removed and 92% of the suspended sediments have been removed.
May 29, 2019 | Article
May 29, 2019, POLITICO | Venetia Lannon, the former NYS deputy secretary for the environment, has been elected to the board of trustees of The FUND for Lake George.
May 24, 2019 | Press Release
May 24, 2019 | Venetia Lannon, the former New York State deputy secretary for the environment and now a vice president with a nationally recognized environmental engineering firm, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Fund for Lake George.
May 24, 2019 | Article
May 24, 2019, Lake George Mirror | Sandra Postel, one of the nation's foremost advocates for clean, wild water and the ecosystems it supports, will be the keynote speaker at The FUND for Lake George's annual meeting, to be held this year on Saturday, July 6, at The Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing.
May 23, 2019 | Article
May 23, 2019, Saratogian | Thousands of people will be visiting the Adirondacks this Memorial Day weekend and throughout the summer months to come. A $700,000 new state-of-the-art boat washing station is designed to keep unwelcome aquatic invasive species from hitching a ride with them.
May 23, 2019 | Press Release
May 23, 2019 | Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the latest action in New York's comprehensive efforts to prevent the spread of invasive species with the grand opening of the state's most advanced boat inspection and decontamination station at the recently completed Adirondacks Welcome Center on Interstate 87 in Queensbury, Warren County.
May 17, 2019 | Article
May 17, 2019, Lake George Mirror | Lake George’s Charles R. Wood Park, which includes a wetland constructed to capture storm water and an open-air events space, will be formally dedicated on May 29.
May 17, 2019 | Article
May 17, 2019, Lake George Mirror | On May 7, the Bolton Town Board voted unanimously to adopt a new law requiring on-site septic systems to be inspected and in compliance with state and local standards upon the transfer of the owner’s property.
May 8, 2019 | Article
May 8, 2019, Adirondack Explorer | New testing shows that more Adirondack wells are contaminated by unhealthful levels of road salt.
May 8, 2019 | Article
May 8, 2019, The Post Star | The Bolton Town Board passed a septic system inspection law Tuesday night, joining Queensbury in seeking to protect human health and the quality of Lake George, its tributaries and the groundwater.
April 30, 2019 | Article
April 30, 2019, Adirondack Explorer | Lake George is separated from Lake Champlain by just over two miles of waterfalls on the La Chute River, which tumbles through the one-time mill town of Ticonderoga, a word loosely translated to mean “where the waters meet.” ...Despite their proximity, these two bodies of water could not be more different in terms of invasive species.
April 23, 2019 | Article
April 23, 2019, Adirondack Explorer | Sandra Postel says you can see examples of people and communities working together to solve major water problems and the challenge is to ‘scale up’ these local solutions.
April 12, 2019 | Article
April 2019, The Hague Chronicle | “There’s no one alive who cares more about Lake George and all it stands for than Mayor Blais,” said Eric Siy of The FUND for Lake George.
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