The growing severity and frequency of storms causes flooding and nutrient and bacteria loading. This can cause septic contamination of drinking wells. Click here and learn how to monitor and restore your contaminated drinking well.

Flooding also can damage docks, watercraft, cause road washouts, and result in personal as well as financial impact issues.

How we deal with these concerns both individually and as members of our lake associations varies.

Our Kettle Lakes are situated in an area rich in agriculture. Click here to read the recent blog on how farm runoff from intense storms raises phosphorous loads that drive HABs in Seneca-Keuka Lakes.

Long-term damage from significant storm water run-off imbalances the ecosystem and has broader implications. Lake water quality, harmful algal blooms, (HABs) services to homes, recreation, and even health concerns can arise and take much longer and present larger challenges.

Communicating support to our constituents is imperative. Using a variety of systems often involving social media and telecommunications will enable the team to reach out among the four Kettle Lakes memberships.

Here are the contacts for each of the four kettle lakes.

Song Lake – President Tony Goddard tony@lafayettemp.com

Tully Lake – President Colleen Zawadzki karatecolleen123@gmail.com

Crooked Lake-President Seth Aldrich sethfaldrich@gmail.com

Little York Lake- President Gary Lawrence garylawrence1805@yahoo.com