Truesdale Lake  

South Salem, New York

2008 CSLAP Report Posted

cslaplogoThe 2008 Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program (CSLAP) report is available online now.  The Truesdale Lake Management Committee members (Gary Struve, Debbie Fink, and recently Vi Patek) have been monitoring the health of Lake Truesdale since 1999 through this program that tracks water clarity and quality during the spring and summer.

In addition to the 2008 report, we have all reports available from 1999-2008 in the Lake Management area of our Downloads section.

The Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program (CSLAP) is a volunteer lake monitoring program conducted by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and the NYS Federation of Lake Associations (FOLA). Founded in 1986 with 25 pilot lakes, the program involves more than 190 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs and 1000 volunteers from eastern Long Island to the Northern Adirondacks to the western-most lake in New York, including 10 acre ponds to several Finger Lakes, Lake Ontario, Lake George, and lakes within state parks. In this program, lay volunteers trained by the NYSDEC and FOLA collect water samples, observations, and perception data every other week in a fifteen-week interval between May and October. Water samples are analyzed by certified laboratories. Analytical results are interpreted by the NYSDEC and FOLA, and utilized for a variety of purposes by the State of New York, local governments, researchers, and, most importantly, participating lake associations.

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