The Dam is a 300-foot-long earth embankment with a maximum height of 15 feet that was reportedly constructed in the 1920s. The Dam impounds an 83-acre lake that receives runoff from approximately 2,380 acres. The dam is reportedly owned by the Truesdale Lake Property Owners Association, and the Town has possibly been granted a right of way for the road over the dam. The Dam is registered, # 231-5160, with New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC). Figure 1 shows the lake and its watershed.

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 has 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.  This report summarizes the 2003 sampling results for Lake Truesdale.