Reports, Publications & Educational Resources

Watershed Characterization Report

Watershed Characterization Report Update
Executive Summary

Watershed Management Plan
Executive Summary
Additional Recommendations Adopted or Revised since 2003
References and Appendices

Annual Report Cards provide an update on the Conesus Lake
Watershed Management Plan implementation activities and
yearly water quality monitoring results.

2005               2010             2015             2020
2006               2011             2016
2007               2012             2017
2008               2013             2018
2009               2014             2019 

Invasive Species Prevention and Response Plan
Blue Green Algae Early Detection and Rapid Response Plan
Fish Kill Contingency Plan

Conesus Lake Bathymetric Survey
Help Protect Water Quality With a Rain Garden
Guide to Preserving Conesus Lake 
Stop Hydrilla Brochure
Blue Green Algae Brochure

2021

2020

SUNY Brockport: Livingston County Water Quality Monitoring - 2020 Tributary Program

SUNY Geneseo/SUNY Brockport: Report on 2020 Conesus Lake Monitoring Program: In-Lake Studies - I. Current and Historical Patterns (2000-2020) of Macrophyte Biomass and Standing Crop in Eurasian Watermilfoil-Dominated Beds; II. Tributary Plume Dispersion Patterns: Observations from Aerial Surveillance and In Lake Conductivity Sensors; III. Description of Late-Season Phytoplankton Bloom Related to Water Column Mixing Events

2019

SUNY Geneseo/SUNY Brockport Monitoring:  Internal Loading and Phytoplankton Blooms & Tributary Monitoring

2017
SUNY Geneseo:  Monitoring of Water Quality, Water Column Mixing and Blooms of Cyanobacteria In Conesus Lake (NY), Summer 2017

2015
SUNY Geneseo: Linkage Between Water Column Mixing of Phosphorus and Onset of Cyanobacteria Blooms In Conesus Lake

SUNY Brockport: Stream Water Quality Assessment of Long Point Gully, Graywood Gully, and Sutton Point: Conesus Lake Tributaries

2014
SUNY Brockport: Trophic Status of Conesus Lake 2014: Long-term Trends in Lake Chemistry and the Plankton Community

2013
SUNY Geneseo: Studies of Adult and Larval Zebra Mussel Populations in Conesus Lake, NY

2012
SUNY Brockport: Long-term Trends and the Trophic Status of Conesus Lake 2012

SUNY Brockport: Stream Water Quality Assessment of Long Point Gully, Graywood Gully, and Sand Point Gully: Conesus Lake Tributaries Spring 2012

SUNY Geneseo: Historical Trends of Macrophyte Diversity and Biomass in Conesus Lake

2011
SUNY Geneseo: Study of Selected Limnological Parameters In Conesus Lake (NY) Following Heavy Precipitation and Runoff in Spring 2011

SUNY Brockport: The Development of an Stream Water Quality Assessment Index to Evaluate Stream Health Conesus Lake Tributaries

2010
SUNY Brockport: Conesus Lake Tributaries Summer 2010

SUNY Geneseo: Macrophyte Biomass and Filamentous Algal Cover in Conesus Lake: Long Term Trends for the Cottonwood Gully, Sand Point Gully, Sutton Point Gully and North Gully Cove Macrophyte Beds

Walleye as a Management tool for controlling alewife populations of Cayuta and Canadarago Lakes, August 2010

2009
SUNY Geneseo: Continued Monitoring of Macrophyte Biomass and Filamentous Algal Cover in Conesus Lake

Water Quality of the Finger Lakes, New York 2005-2008, March 2, 2009

SUNY Brockport: Water Quality of USDA Monitored Watersheds Internal Hypolimnetic Phosphorus Loading Lake Chemistry Status of the Zooplankton Community

2008
Conesus Lake Baseline Data on the Stream Bank Restoration Project Update on Water Quality of USDA Monitored Watersheds, December 2008

Macrophyte Biomass and Filamentous Algal Cover South of McPhersons Point after Diversion of the North Gully Tributary - Summer 2008

2004
Conesus Lake Limnology 2004

2002
Stressed Stream Analysis of North Gully and Southwest Creeks in the Conesus Lake Watershed, July 2002

2001

Update of Soil and Nutrient Loss from Subwatersheds of Conesus Lake, 2001

Distribution and Biomass of Macrophytes in Six Large Beds Adjacent to Streams with High Nutrient Loading, Summer 2001

2000

Population Studies of Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in Conesus Lake, N.Y., Summer 2000

Synoptic Watershed Survey Conesus Lake Watershed, May 26, 2000

1999

Management Approaches for the Control of Aquatic Plants, September 1999

Summary of Report Distribution and Standing Crops of Submersed Macrophytes in Conesus Lake, NY, 1999

Soil and Nutrient Loss from Sub-Watersheds in the Southwest Quadrant of Conesus Lake, May 1999

1997
Priority Area Assessment Report:  Canaseraga Creek, April 1, 1997

Priority Area Assessment Report: Conesus Creek, April 1, 1997

Priority Area Assessment Report:  Middle Genesee River, April 1, 1997

1994
Stress Stream Analysis of a Sub-Watershed of Conesus Lake:  South McMillan Creek, July 1994

1993
Stress Stream Analysis of Two Sub-Watersheds of Conesus Lake:  Hanna's and Wilkins Creek

Conesus Lake Association
http://www.conesuslake.org/

Finger Lakes Institute
http://www.hws.edu/fli/

Livingston County Sheriff's Marine Patrol
http://www.livingstoncounty.us/index.aspx?nid=265

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Livingston County
http://ccelivingstoncounty.org/

Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council
http://gflrpc.org/

Livingston County Tourism
http://www.fingerlakeswest.com/

Finger Lakes PRISM
http://fingerlakesinvasives.org/

New York State Invasive Species Clearinghouse
http://nyis.info/

New York State Federation of Lake Association
http://www.nysfola.org/

Finger Lakes-Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance
http://fllowpa.org/

Finger Lakes Regional Watershed Alliance
http://www.flrwa.org/