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
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

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

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

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

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/