PRESIDENT’S REPORT · Page 2 March 2010 KLA Newsletter

Page 1 March 2010 KLA Newsletter

Newsletter “Listen to the Lake” March 2010

Newsletter Highlights

President‘s Report…................................... 1

Pulteney Waste Water Well……………….2-3

Membership Update……………………........3

Navigation & Recreation: Boater Safety .….4

Water Quality …………………………….…..5

Manage Pathways to Block Invasive

Species…………………………………..6

Nominating Committee……….……………...7

Krossin‘ Keuka 2010…………………………7

―Rocks to Docks‖ - Book Excerpt,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,8

KLA Member Ads………………….…......9-15

New Members……………………………….15

Corrections for December ‗09 Membership Roster…………………………………...15

Esther N. Wahlig Keuka Lake Watershed Scholarship Application……………….16

Directory 2010 & in the past………..……...17

KLA Logo Apparel Order Info…….….…….17

Critter Corner: RIP, Gully, Gulch & Ravine Critters……………………………..…..18

Business Members & Advertisers…….…..19

Order Forms………………………….…......20

Calendars - Overseas Service Persons.....20

KLA Directors and Officers…….....…….. 20 Keuka Events Calendar……...…….….......20 Advertising Info………………....…….… .…21

KLA Office Info…………………..……….…21

Membership Application Form……….……21

Photos…………………………...….…...17,22

PRESIDENT’S REPORT Rob corcoran

www.keukalakeassoc.org PROTECTING THE QUALITY OF THE LAKE

In mid-January, we had a ―Red Alert‖ when it was made known that Chesapeake Appalachia had applied for a permit to use an old gas well in the town of Pulteney to dump 200,000 gallons a day of toxic waste water. Adding insult to injury, even if hydrofracking, as the drilling process is called, were to be not allowed in New York State, the resultant waste could be brought in from out of state if the permit were approved. Remember, we are not talking about drilling here, but the separate issue of a high pressure under-ground injection well to dump a lot of toxic waste water for ten years (which would be renewable) along with the accompanying daily truck traffic and other very seriously invasive aspects to our area. The KLA and many members wrote to NYS Senators and Congressmen to protest this application and it was just announced that Chesapeake has withdrawn its application for this injection well. You can follow developments on our website (www.keukalakeassoc,org) and on our Facebook page, which we have just initiated. The KLA has been aggressively fighting this issue and although the application has been withdrawn, we must continue to be vigilant to ensure that it doesn‘t reappear in some form or fashion in the future. In the meantime, thanks for your sup-port!

We will be sending out membership renewal information in March and hope that you will all ―re-up‖ and will also help us solicit new members. It‘s only with a large and supportive membership that we can be influential enough to effectively fight significant battles such as this waste water well in Pulteney. This is an excellent example of why everyone around Keuka Lake and its watershed should be members!

KLAeidoscope of Keuka 2010-11 Thanks to all of you who submitted photos for our calendar. The images sent in were high quality and included a wide variety of settings. The jury will have a difficult time choosing the monthly and cover selections.

Become a KLA fan on Face-book! If you haven‘t heard al-ready and have a Facebook account, join us as a fan. We want to use this as a tool to re-cruit members, direct people to our web site, and spread timely news and information. We al-ready have over 600 fans and are looking forward to spread-ing the word about preserving Keuka Lake in this way.


Proposed Pulteney Waste Water Well The Keuka Lake Association Subcommittee on Hydrofracking Waste Water Disposal is providing you with this information to alert you of a potentially serious threat to the water quality of the Finger Lakes and surrounding aquifers. THE SITUATION: Chesapeake Appalachia LLC (Chesapeake), one of the largest natural gas companies in the coun-try, has recently signaled its intent to dispose of large quantities of used hydraulic fracturing fluid, henceforth referred to as fracking fluid, by pumping it down a depleted gas well in the Town of Pulteney near Keuka Lake. This fracking fluid is initially composed of water mixed with sand and a cocktail of toxic chemicals. 3-4 million gallons are forced down a new gas well to fracture the shale and free the gas from the shale. About one third of the fluid is forced back out of the well by the gas along with the pulverized rock, large amounts of salt, radon (a naturally occurring radioactive element) and other com-pounds. It is this material the company needs to dispose of. A series of town meetings have been held and much information from the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) application by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has been shared with local residents. Many local and regional groups are very concerned by the implications of this proposal. People wanted to impress upon their local and state governments the importance of their role in standing up forcefully for the protection of Keuka Lake and the Finger Lakes region. We are not debat-ing the merits of gas drilling here, but the wisdom of pumping huge amounts of toxic waste into deplet-ed wells. Nearly everyone is concerned about the apparent risk to both Keuka Lake, area wells and aquifers by the high pressure injection of hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic waste over many years. There are fault lines running under the Bergstresser well and all through the area, including under the lake. There is a huge difference between pumping 3-4 million gallons down a well temporarily and pumping hundreds of millions of gallons down a well over many years under high pressure. Very few seem to be in favor of taking the risk of permanently contaminating the lake and area wells and aqui-fers except Chesapeake and a few landowners who may stand to earn some money from this opera-tion. IMPLICATIONS: Some facts from the SEQR application: The used fracking fluid or ―brine‖ to be disposed of, is so super-saturated with salt, scores of toxic chemicals (of which the exact components are classified as a ―trade secret‖), and radioactive materials that it cannot be reused for additional fracking. Chesapeake intends to simply filter out the solids and pump the rest down the well at the rate of up to 200,000 gallons per day at pressure up to 3,204 psi. This amounts to about 6 million gallons of highly concentrated fracking fluid per month. The DEC application also stated that less than 1 ton of solid waste per month would be gathered from the filtering of 6 million gallons of fracking fluid. The solid waste would be sent to a disposal site yet to be determined. At 6,000 gallons per truckload, this would amount to about 33 truck-loads per day every day or about 1,000 huge truckloads per month. These truckloads of highly toxic waste would be traveling through Penn Yan, Branchport, Pulteney and Prattsburgh en route from other locations in New York and Pennsylvania. The permit would allow approximately 72 million gallons of fracking fluid to be disposed of each year for an initial ten year period, to be renewed at the end of the period. If this well is approved, there are scores of other similar wells in the Finger Lakes which may be also approved for this purpose. Both Chesapeake Appalachia LLC and the DEC are anxious to find a way to dispose of this waste. CONT. ON PG. 3


Membership Update - Dennis Carlson

The entire KLA Membership Committee hopes that you and your family have had a happy and safe holiday season. With this part of the year behind us, we are sure that you are looking forward to a new season ei-ther on Keuka or in the Keuka Lake area. Hopefully the new season will come quickly and provide us all with many enjoyable and memorable days. During the month of March, you will receive your KLA Membership renewal forms for the 2010 membership year. We ask for your continued support. Last year, as in the past, KLA focused its efforts on fulfilling the KLA Mission of Preserving and Protecting Keuka Lake. These efforts included working with Cornell Cooperative Extension to identify and remove certain invasive species from Keuka Lake, supporting our local boating safety patrols by contributing to the purchase of life saving equipment and supporting the Keuka Water Shed Improvement Cooperative‘s new management tools for waste water inspections. As you will read elsewhere in this newsletter, the KLA has become very active in working with local governments and citizens organizations regarding the disposal of Marcellus Shale Drilling waste in the Keuka Watershed. The KLA is totally opposed to the current proposal and we are taking the ―high road‖ (efforts based on fact versus emotion) in our efforts to prevent this. YOUR MEMBERSHIP CON-TRIBUTIONS allow these efforts to occur. Again, we thank all 1652 KLA Members for their support and ask for your timely reply to our mem-bership renewal request. KLA Membership Committee: Dennis Carlson, Chair, Ellen Shaw-Maceko, Sandy Pietropaoli, Sue Lange

PULTENEY WASTE WATER WELL - CONT. FROM PG. 2

Sincerely, The KLA Sub-committee On Hydrofracking Waste Water Disposal: Jim Barre, Art Hunt, Al Wahlig, Mark Morris, Barb Allardice, Stan Martin, Dennis Carlson, Bill Feinstein, Bill Laffin Below are some names of officials to write. Thanks for your help. Greg Heffner, Steuben County Planner, 3 E. Pulteney Square, Bath, NY 14810 Shawna Bonshak. Yates County Planner, 417 Liberty St., Penn Yan, NY 14527 Bill Weber, Pulteney Supervisor, P.O. Box 214, Pulteney, NY George Winner, State Senator for District 53, 105 E. Steuben St., Bath, NY 14810 Jim Bacalles, Assemblyman for N.Y.S. District 136, 105 E. Steuben St., Bath, NY 14810 Eric Massa, U.S. Congressman for District 29, 89 W. Market St., Corning, NY 14830 Charles E. Schumer, U.S. Senator, 100 State Street, Room 3040, Rochester, NY 14614 Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator, 100 State St., Room 4195, Rochester, NY 14614 Pete Grannis, DEC Commissioner, N.Y.S. Dept. of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Alba-ny, New York 12233-0001 Judith Enck, EPA Region II Administrator, 290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007-1866 Aubrey K. McClendon, Chairman and CEO, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, P.O. Box 18496, Okla-homa City, OK 73154-0496 Matt Sheppard, Sr. Director of Corporate Development, Chesapeake Eastern Division, [email protected] David A. Paterson, Governor of New York, State Capital, Albany, NY 12224


Navigation & recreation - Chuck Bastian

Boater Safety Training – March 2010 update As we get ready for the upcoming boating season on Keuka, we need to remember that boater safety training is critical to the safety and enjoyment of an ever more densely populated lake. NEW BOATING LAW REMINDER: There was a new State Navigation Law that went into effect No-vember 1, 2009 regarding life jackets: "No owner or operator of a pleasure vessel less than twenty-one feet, including rowboats, canoes, and kayaks shall permit its operation, between November 1st and May 1st, unless each person on board such vessel is wearing a securely fastened United States Coast Guard approved wearable personal flotation device of an appropriate size when such vessel is underway". CERTIFICATION REMINDER: POWER BOATS: Persons ages 10 – 17 must successfully com-plete a State Certified, Power Squadron, or Coast Guard Safe Boating Course to operate a power boat without adult supervision. PERSONAL WATERCRAFT: Operators must be at least 14 years old un-less accompanied by an adult, AND all PWC operators (regardless of age) must have completed a New York State recognized Safe Boating Course. It is a great idea for ALL boaters to take a Safe Boating Course if you haven‘t taken one before or just take it as a refresher if it has been a few years. Check with your insurance companies too about a discount on your boat insurance policy. Now is a great time to find out when and where, and then plan to attend a spring Safety Course. Dates for boating courses are available on the NYS Parks & Recreation web site (www.nysparks.com) (click on "Recreation", then ―Boating‖ then on ―Education‖), or by calling any of the agencies below: Yates County Sheriff (315) 536-4438, (315) 536-5526 Steuben County Sheriff (607) 776-7009, (800) 724-7777 Ontario County Sheriff (585) 396-4569 www.co.ontario.ny.us/sheriff - look at the ‗education‘ tab under ―Marine and Recreational Vehicles‖ Monroe County Sheriff Marine Unit (585) 467-1065 Livingston County Sheriff (585) 243-7100 US Coast Guard Auxiliary (585) 663-7115 www.boatcourse.org

We will report in the June newsletter any other new items of concern based on our spring discussions with the Steuben and Yates Counties Sheriff‘s offices. NAVIGATION REMINDER: As you begin to go out on the lake this spring, please be aware of any 'new' obstacles that may have changed over the winter, like buoys, trees etc. Also, please be cogni-zant of the wake your boat might be making against the shoreline even when you are close to or far-ther from shore, especially when the water levels are typically higher in the spring. Within 200 feet from shore, the maximum speed is 5 mph, but please, watch your wake and consider it as a 'no wake zone'. Courtesy is always the key - to other boaters and residents alike. As we all know, you can never be over prepared when you will be out on the lake.


Water Quality - Bill Laffin

Usually the winter is a rather quiet time for the Water Quality as the weather precludes a lot of activity. Some water sampling is done as the weather and ice conditions permit and plans for the ensuing summer are formulat-ed. As you will read in other articles, the Pulteney Drilling Waste Disposal issue has consumed a lot of time and has really rallied the entire region around this issue. Once the facts have been gathered and digested, few could possibly favor this misguided plan. It has been gratifying to see off lake as well as on lake resident‘s working to-gether to guard the purity of Keuka Lake and the major role that it plays in the economies of Yates and Steuben Counties. People from all walks of life have joined forces to make a very public statement against any activity that could jeopardize the lake and local economies. The Keuka Watershed Improvement Cooperative (KWIC) held its regularly scheduled and 2010 organizational meeting on January 25, 2010 at the Pulteney Town Hall. The meeting was very well attended due to the ongoing issue with the permitting of a liquid drilling waste injection well in Pulteney. New KWIC Officers for 2010 were elected. For those of you not familiar with the KWIC, its members are the 8 town supervisors and village mayors from all of the communities that border Keuka Lake. The new officers are:

Steve Butchko – Wayne – Chair Bill Weber – Pulteney – Vice Chair

Daryl Jones – Jerusalem – Treasurer The 2010 Meeting Schedule was proposed as follows: Feb. 22 – Milo Town Hall; Mar. 22 – Town of Jerusa-lem Fire Hall; Apr. 26 – Penn Yan Village Hall; May 24 – Barrington Town Hall; June 28 – Wayne Town Hall; July 22 – Urbana Town Hall; August 23 – Hammondsport Village Hall; Sept. 27 – Pulteney Town Hall; Oct. 25 – Jerusalem Fire Hall; Nov. 22 – Milo Town Hall; Dec. 27 – Penn Yan Village Hall. All meetings start at 7 PM and locations are subject to change. The meetings are open to the public. The work on the replacement wastewater reporting computer system is progressing well. It is estimated that there will be a working model for the watershed inspectors to trial by the end of February or early March. At this point it is envisioned that the system go live in the May/June timeframe. Data from the old system is currently being loaded into the new reporting and tracking system. As with any software, rules and constraints govern how the data is reported and tracked. One of the changes that this system will bring is how the watershed inspectors schedule their work and report their work to the Watershed Manager. It is planned that the new system will im-pose September 15th as the dead line for the completion of all required annual septic and holding tank inspec-tions. The mid September date will then give the watershed inspectors ample time to communicate with property owners prior to issuing violation notices. As we have reported in the past, the towns in the watershed are taking an increasingly stern view of property owns who fail to have their systems inspected as required. Court appear-ances, fines and a few property condemnations did occur last year. The new system will also provide more con-sistent observations and reporting among all watershed inspectors as the system will have a variety of ―drop down menus‖ using common terminology versus handwritten notes on index cards. If you have any questions regarding your system, you should contact your town‘s watershed inspector. They are listed on the KLA website. From the KLA Home Page click on WHAT and then LOCAL RESOURCE. Then scroll down and click on Local Watershed Inspectors. As of the writing of this article, the Barrington Watershed Inspector‘s position is open due to the retirement of Gary Boardman. As soon as the Barrington Town Board selects a replacement for Gary, we will post that information on the KLA‘s web site. The KWIC is also working on a new Sanitary Waste Water Law and permitting process that will bring the local municipal laws up to date with state regulations and advances in septic technology. The new KWIC chairman asked that the draft of the new law be ready for the March 22 KWIC meeting. The updated Invasive Species Chapter of the new Keuka Lake Book has been posted on the KLA web site. Oth-er chapters are being rewritten and will be posted as soon as Cornell Cooperative Extension has them complet-ed.


Willie Nelson once sang that he only missed his ex-lover on three days: yesterday, today and tomorrow. This simple division of time works as well for invasive species as it does for heartbreak. Yesterday's invaders include hundreds of species and pathogens that are now well established throughout our region. Examples include many popular sport fish, such as brown and rainbow trout, smallmouth and large-mouth bass, and devastating diseases and pests, such as Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight, Japanese bee-tles and most of the garden slugs. Yesterday's invaders also include species that are hard to classify simply as beneficial or harmful, such as yellow iris and purple loosestrife. What should we do about yesterday's invaders? Proba-bly we should begin by determining their actual effects and not fall into the trap of believing they are entirely bad just because they are not native. Clearly, many are desirable. But others cause serious harm, so we don't want to welcome them with open arms. For demonstrably harmful species, we might determine what management options are actually feasible. Usual-ly, regionwide control is not possible — and even local control may be expensive, ineffective or have nasty side effects. As a result, management of yesterday's invaders may best be targeted by local programs to achieve specific goals. So while there is little hope of eliminating bush honeysuckle from North America, we might be able to control it on a nature preserve to bene-fit particular native animals and plants that it might be crowding out. Today's invaders are just arriving in the valley, either directly from overseas, or after first landing elsewhere in North America. These are the invaders most likely to make headlines: Asian long-horned beetles, which threaten to cause tens of billions to trillions of dollars of damage to our trees, the infamous silver carp now making its way into the Great Lakes through the Chica-go canal and the Chinese mitten crab, which recently appeared in the Hudson River. Although ecologists usually can roughly estimate the effects of today's invaders, it's difficult to predict pre-cisely the extent and cost of the damage they will cause (note the wide range in damage estimates for the Asian long-horned beetle). So to avoid making

costly and irreversible mistakes, we should control the-se species wherever possible, unless they are demon-strably beneficial. Luckily, we have more options for controlling today's invaders than yesterday's. We can mount intensive campaigns to eradicate the most harmful of these spe-cies as soon as they are detected. For instance, the state Department of Environmental Conservation has been trying to eradicate the northern snakehead, a voracious predatory fish, from a lake in Orange County before it spreads out of control, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been engaged in a decades-long, multistate campaign, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, to eradicate the Asian long-horned beetle. We do not know if such programs will work, but they are much more likely to succeed in eradicating an invader than if we wait for it to become well estab-lished. Even if we cannot eradicate today's invaders altogeth-er, we often can slow their spread. Outreach targeted at boaters has probably significantly slowed the spread of zebra mussels — which even today have reached fewer than 10 percent of suitable lakes in the Great Lakes states — and erecting a barrier on the Erie Ca-nal might keep the silver carp and other invaders from spreading from the Great Lakes to the Hudson River. Even though thousands of invaders have already come into North America, thousands more are waiting for their chance, lurking in ballast tanks of ships, pet shops and plant nurseries. These pathways that will bring to-morrow's invaders to the valley usually won't discrimi-nate between desirable and harmful species. Because we know some of tomorrow's invaders are capable of causing great harm to native species and our economy, it makes sense to control these pathways as much as possible. Fortunately, we have many options — tech-nical, legislative and educational — to improve control of tomorrow's invaders. Somehow I doubt Willie's lover ever came back, but his song does give us some insight into how we might deal with one of our most difficult environmental problems — and avoid heartbreak. David Strayer is a freshwater ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.

Manage Pathways to Block Invasive Species by David Strayer

(This column originally appeared in the January 31, 2010 issue of the Poughkeepsie Journal.)


E-mail & Telephone Inquiries The KLA Office receives many interesting inquiries. We try, as much as is possible, to pass the inquiry off to the KLA Direc-tor or Consultant who can best answer your questions - so don‘t hesitate to ask!

Krossin‘ Keuka Returns in 2010! How does Krossin‘ Keuka ‘10 top last year‘s great event? We do it bigger and better in July 2010! Last year‘s Krossin‘ swim, for the benefit of Keu-ka Comfort Care Home, was a non-competitive, fun, friendly Keuka Lake style event. This summer the event is moving to Saturday, July 31, 2010 starting at Keuka College for a .67 mile swim. It is open to anyone from high school age and older. Also needed are canoe or kayak ―paddlers‖ to escort swimmers across the lake. To register go to the Keuka Comfort Care Home website at www.keukacomfortcarehome.org and click on Krossin‘ Keuka. Registration will begin mid February. Swimmers and paddlers will pay $25 entry fee. Swimmers are asked to raise a minimum of $100 in pledges to become eligible to swim. Swim-mers and paddlers will receive Krossin‘ Keuka tee shirts and a complimentary breakfast after the swim. New to 2010--a special warm-the-lake-up party is planned for all those pre-registered, one evening during Memorial Day Weekend. This will be a chance to reconnect with last year‘s swimmers, meet new lake friends and see pictures and videos from 2009‘s event. We invite you and all your friends to join the fun to support Keuka Comfort Care Home and to make this an event to look forward to over the years!

HELP WANTED!

The KLA is looking for volunteers. Every year we lose a few members of our Board of Directors as their terms of volunteer service expire. At the July 2010 KLA Annual Meeting, we will be nominating four new directors to replace outgoing Board Members. We are seeking volunteers who are eager to work by assisting the KLA in maintaining its operations. Whether it‘s working on membership, water quality, navigation and recreation, lake level, communica-tions, advertising sales, the KLA calendar or a host of other issues, the KLA offers great opportunities for fulfilling and gratifying volunteerism. The Board of Directors meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 5 PM and we normally meet about 11 times per year. Committees meet as needed to fulfill their goals and objectives. Each Board member serves on or chairs at least one of our standing committees. If you would like to be considered for a position on our Board, please contact Margo McTaggart at [email protected] or 1-866-369-3781 by March 15.

nominating - Bill Laffin


Rocks to Docks

―Rocks to Docks‖ is a page taken from a new Keuka Lake history book about Willow Grove - A Point on Keuka Lake com-piled by Annette Toaspern. Written as a fund raiser for YCG&HS, copies are available at the YCG&HS gift shop at the Un-derwood House on Chapel Street in Penn Yan. There are two copies at the Penn Yan Public Library. The book contains

many rare photos and postcards from private albums. The book details 150 years of Lot 45 in the Town of Milo, Yates County history. Willow Grove has a varied history from its early days as a pioneer homestead, farm and steamboat stop to one of the first subdivisions of summer homes, tourist cottages and store. It holds a special place in the hearts of all who

have bonded with this point on Keuka Lake.

It started with a rock when the Pil-grims arrived. The evolution of pri-vate seasonal docks, like all struc-tures on the lake, has been to grow bigger, taller and more permanent. What is a dock? On Keuka Lake, as in Plymouth when our ancestors arrived, it was something to step on to get in and out of a boat without getting your feet wet. Native Amer-icans probably used a rock or a log occasionally getting in and out of the canoe. It is very natural to want to reach out and touch something to give you extra stability. On Keu-ka Lake, a pile of rocks can be seen at Elmwood between the boats in the picture above. The next step in the evolution was a simple board supported by flat rocks, a cinderblock or short wood-en legs. If it was deep enough, children could add a box to gain height to jump off. The bottom of the lake determined your dock‘s size at Willow Grove. The docks on the South end of the beach were shorter, since there is a shelf or drop off there, than the North beach docks. All docks, during the

rowboat era were short because they were merely to get in and out of those low boats. You can see the typical end rail to aid the bal-ance in the top cropped Willow Grove postcard. As motorized launches came to private docks, the length increased. The first board docks had wooden supports driven into the bottom or a saw-horse to support the tops. This type of dock was hammered to-gether with nails each season. Grandma Brace is sitting on such a dock. The next style rolled in on wheels. My dad is feeding ducks from such a dock. With the wide level beaches at Willow Grove, you could easily roll the dock in and pull it out even using pulleys on trees or neighbors to help. Each dock was built to fit your beach. The dock‘s edge had recycled fire hose to pro-tect docking boats and recycled wheels from a scrap iron yard. Metal wheels were plentiful as rub-ber tires replaced them on machin-ery. These metal wheels lasted for years. Their spokes were used as stairs to climb onto the dock from

swimming. I remember fresh fish swimming on the stringer attached to the wheel of our dock. Next, came a steel frame with adjustable legs on wheels and a removable deck. Sutherland, Falvey and Ath-awes were local designers and builders of such docks. Aluminum is replacing steel in this style as they are lighter and do not require the seasonal painting. These docks have decks close to the wa-ter surface. You buy these in sec-tions to fit you needs. The latest fad are higher platform docks. which provide greater surface area for deck chairs. Driven wood pile docks like the steamboat docks are being built with air bubblers to keep back the ice. Some of these struc-tures even have sun decks on top. The Keuka Lake towns have passed a law to control the building of docks. It is meant to protect the view of owners who would like to see the lake instead of docks. The-se modern dock are being thought of as an extended outdoor living

space.

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS (AS OF February 18, 2010)

Leslie church Scott & Elena cline Robert & Ruth Davis Debbie & Rick Flood

Doris H. Hunt Mary jo Jepson

Lake home valet, inc Amy & Jeff Lieberman

Mr.. & Mrs.. Robert E. Northup Kim & Tim Paddock

Quality Docks Alexandra Schultz Gabrielle Schultz Kierstan Schultz Yvonne stephens

Stanley & Joyce witkowski

Pg. 19

Apologies to the KLA members listed below who were inadvertently omitted from our 2009 Member Roster pub-

lished in our December newsletter:

Basic Member

Rob & Pam Steigerwald

Jerome & Natalie Steinmetz

Kurt and Ann Stell

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stepanik

Bob & Gayle Stiles

Chris & Dave Stocking

Harry & Norma Stoneham

Ray & Barb Stoner

Ruth & Alan Stork

Steve and Susan Stork

Bob Stowell, Jr.

Clarinda Straub

Mike & Linda Streeter

Susan & Scott Streeter

Norman & Beverly Strehle

Business/ Personal

Mark & Deborah Malcolm - Century 21

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ESTHER N WAHLIG KEUKA LAKE WATERSHED SCHOLARSHIP The goal of this scholarship, sponsored by the Keuka Lake Association, is to assist a graduating senior high school student who is planning to enroll in a four year program (may include a two year college with plans to transfer to a four year institution) and who is planning on pursuing a career in general en-vironmental sciences or limnology or water quality/watershed management. Eligible applicants include senior students graduating from high schools in the Keuka Lake Watershed, including Haverling Central School, Dundee Central School, Penn Yan Academy, Prattsburgh Central School, Hammondsport Central School or senior students whose parents are Keuka Lake Association members. The one-time $1000 scholarship will be awarded in one installment upon satisfactory completion of the first semester and submission of a transcript sent to the Keuka Lake Association office for review by the committee. The selection committee is composed of five members appointed by the Keuka Lake Association and will meet in April of the student‘s graduating year. The committee must receive application forms by April fifteenth of the graduating year. By June first the committee will send the selected recipient a let-ter and forward a copy to the guidance department of the appropriate school. Students should submit an application for the scholarship to the Keuka Lake Association by mail to P. O. Box 35, Penn Yan, NY 14527. The application must include a letter of recommendation from one of the applicants teachers and a 250 to 300 word essay describing the students interest in his or her selected field of study and how the student plans to apply that knowledge either in a future career or for enriching his/her appreciation in the environmental sciences or water quality/watershed management. APPLICATION ________________________________________________________________________ Last Name First Name M.I. ________________________________________________________________________ Address _________________________________________________________________________ Town or City State Zip Code _________________________________________________________________________ Planned Major College or University High School Average


KLA APPAREL Is still available :

Golf Shirts - Men’s & Wom-en’s Sizes

Wind Shirts, Denim Shirts, Adult Jackets - Men Only

Call or e-mail the KLA

Office to order.

Advance payment Required. All items are Special order

NO RETURNS

Photo acknowledgement: Angela Fos-ter; December 2010 in 2009-2010

calendar

Keuka Wreck

John Lawrence - April 2010

Looking forward to KLA Directory 2010

The KLA Directory 2010 is underway. Solicitations letters are being sent to potential sponsors. Property owners and their lake address-es are being confirmed. The committee is deciding on a cover photo. New addresses in Jerusalem will, hopefully, be completed in April. So far, all is going as planned. If you have a business and would like to be a sponsor and did not receive a solicitation letter, please contact the KLA Office.

Looking backward to old directories

If you are in possession of old Keuka Lake Directories and would be willing to part with them, the KLA Office is trying to put together a complete collection of them. We have been able to acquire a few

(some in pretty bad shape). These would be available for members to come to the office and peruse at their leisure. They provide interesting information, not only of property owners, but also, from the ads in-cluded in them. Please let us know if you can help.


CRITTER CORNER

RIP, Gully, Gulch & Ravine Critters Dave deCalesta

The thin strip of vegetation surrounding bodies of water is called the riparian zone (RIP for short). The term comes from the Latin word ripa (riverbank). It‘s a zone of wetted soil characterized by hydrophilic (water-loving) plants and a definitive set of critters that use the vegetation/water combo to meet some or all of their habitat needs. By many definitions, this zone of wetted vegetation and specialized plants extends 100-500 feet from the water‘s edge. These specialized plants and animals are an important addition to the diversity of species surrounding Keuka Lake. The horizontal riparian zone around Keu-ka Lake is the shoreline, and it has been heavily (and likely irreversibly) impacted by development: resi-dences, docks, marinas, and restaurants—the only intact sections are areas too marshy or steep for construction or are reserved as parks. This article focuses on the vertical riparian zone around Keuka Lake—the one comprised of gullies, gulches, and ravines. Photographs taken in the early 1900‘s of Keuka Lake show hillsides stripped of trees for vineyards. The thin, dark lines wandering down to the lake‘s edge from the hilltops are the vertical riparian zones. Many are dark because trees—mostly eastern hemlock—remained as the gullies, gulches and ravines that form the vertical riparian zones were too steep for easy removal of trees, and were too steep for vineyards. Then as now, the vertical riparian zones were shaded by hemlocks, birches, cottonwoods and sycamores that thrive in wetted soils. The understories were and are populated by water-loving shrubs (such as elderberries and witch hobble) and herbaceous plants (such as jewelweed and water-cress). These riparian zones provided cool, moist microclimates wherein a distinctive class of special-ized wildlife species found all or some of their daily and seasonal habitat needs in spring, summer, and fall. In winter, the sheltering coniferous canopies of hemlocks and white pine cut the wind and moder-ate the cold, providing warmer microclimates for deer and turkeys. Root systems of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants hold bank soil together and prevent silt from washing down the streams and suffo-cating the eggs of fish and amphibians in streams and along the Keuka Lake shoreline.

Riparian Zone Critters

If we don‘t want the Acadian flycatchers, northern water shrews and two-lined salamanders (and a cou-ple dozen other critters) to depart Keuka Lake‘s hillsides, we need to preserve the special habitats formed by steep streams overhung with conifers and deciduous trees and shrubs. That means backing off agriculture and development at least 100 feet from the edges of gullies, gulches and ravines in a no-disturb, no devegetate zone. If we don‘t do that, it will be R.I.P for these unique and potentially-threatened species

The Acadian flycatcher nests in hemlock trees above

streams

The northern water shrew hunts along

streams

The northern two-lined sala-mander lays eggs in streams


ACCOUNTING/BANKING/FINANCIALS Five Star Bank - Hammondsport Five Star Bank - Penn Yan Lyons National Bank - Penn Yan Nesbitt Financial Services Small Business Payroll Services UBS Financial Services*** Wells Fargo Advisors*** ANTIQUES Opera House Antiques ARCHITECTURE Marcia A. Coon● ARTS Havill Stoneware & Porcelain Keukaview Photography ATTORNEYS Peter H. Baker● Philip Bailey● Valerie Gardner, Esq. Donald A. Schneider BOOKS/OFFICE SUPPLIES Longs‘ Cards & Books BUILDING/PLUMBING/ ELEC. SUPPLIES Carey‘s Farm & Home Centers* HEP Sales Knapp & Schlappi Lumber Co., Inc. Penn Yan Plumbing & Heating Ribble's Septic Service● Shirley‘s of Bath, Inc. CONSTRUCTION/ARCHITECTURE/ PAINTING/CONTRACTORS/DOCKS D.J. Builders & Remodelers, Inc. Grapes Lakes Painting Hough Builders● Ingersoll Painting & Construction● Parsels Construction Pearson Seamless Gutters Quality Docks R & R Docks Veley Enterprises EDUCATIONAL/INFORMATIVE Glenn H. Curtiss Museum Keuka College ENGINEERS/SURVEYORS/PROPERTY SERVICES Kernahan Engineers● Keuka Lake Property Monitoring Services Lake Home Valet Stephen J. Hubertus, Land Surveyor FOOD SERVICES Around the Corner Catering Divine Dining by Shirley Indian Pines Farm Market

Keuka Lake Coffee Roasters/JavaGourmet Morgan's Grocery* FURNITURE/FLOORING Cole‘s Furniture & Flooring GIFTS/CLOTHING Browsers Cinnamon Stick HEALTH/MEDICAL SERVICES Chiropractic Family Wellness Henderson‘s Drug Store Jeffrey Schultz, DDS● Keuka Family Dentistry● Miracle Ear - Fred Goossen● HOME IMPROVEMENT Bright Ideas by Martinec Lakeside Kitchen Design INSURANCE Furman Kendall – Doug B. Miles Agency Shaw Agency*** Stork Insurance LANDSCAPING/NURSERY Preferred Landscaping LIQUOR/WINE Parkview Liquor LODGING Best Western Vineyard Inn & Suites Esperanza Mansion Hammondsport Motel JS Hubbs B&B Shetland Meadows B&B The Fox Inn The Keuka Lake Motel Tudor Hall B&B* Viking Resort MARINE SERVICES/SUPPLIES Basin Park Marina Hayes Canvas Works Jake's Boat Livery Marine Blue, Inc. REAL ESTATE SALES/RENTALS/ DEVELOPMENT Century 21 Sbarra & Wells** Curbeau Realty● Dan Morse - Re/Max Diversified Realty Finger Lakes Getaways Inc** Finger Lakes Premiere Properties Finger Lakes Realty Jackie Carpenter - Prudential - Licensed Real Estate Broker Keuka Rental - Lundy● Lake Living Realty Lucy Knapp - Realty USA - Licensed Real Estate Broker●

Mark Malcolm II - Century 21● Marcia Rees - Century 21 Michael Hanna - Realty USA - Licensed Real Estate Broker Realty USA RE/MAX & Diversified Rental & Realty St. George Realty of the Fingerlakes Vang Real Estate● RESTAURANTS Angel's Family Restaurant Antique Inn Esperanza Mansion Essenhaus Restaurant Holly‘s Red Rooster Keuka Restaurant The Olney Place on Keuka Market & Deli The Switzerland Inn Wise Guys Pizza RECREATIONAL SERVICES Keuka Yacht Club Lakeside Country Club YMCA Camp Cory VETERINARY Eastview Veterinary Clinic, P.C. WEB DESIGN DSD Webworks WINERIES Barrington Cellars● Dr. Konstantin Frank Wine Cellars Heron Hill Vineyards, Inc. Hunt Country Vineyards Keuka Lake Vineyards● Keuka Overlook Wine Cellars Keuka Spring Vineyards● McGregor Vineyard Winery Rooster Hill Vineyards OTHER Bohemian Lodge Partners Camp Arey, Inc.*** Eastlake Consulting - Morris● Penn Yan Mini Storage Ross Associates● Rye Point, Inc. Shore Acres Association Suzanne Donald The Southern Tier Shopper Twix Pines LLC● Yates County Soil & Water

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www.keukalakeassoc.org to find Business Member listings and links to their websites.

Attention Business Members: On our new web site, please check your busi-ness listing. There is a description under your business name. If you have a web site, clicking on your name goes directly there. If you do not, there is a „pop-up‟ that lists contact info. Please e-mail the KLA Office ([email protected]) with any desired changes or additions.

New business members in italics *Sponsor Level ** Patron Level ***Guardian Level ● Business/Personal Member


President Rob Corcoran Barrington Sue Lange

President-elect Bill Laffin Barbara Allardice

Treasurer Dick Honeyman Jerusalem Chuck Bastian

Secretary Bill Feinstein Jim Barre

At-Large Art Hunt Milo Bill Laffin

Steve Knapp Jeanne Wiltberger

Mark Morris Pulteney Sandra Pietropaoli

John Webster Stan Martin

Mike Doyle Urbana Dick Honeyman

Al Wahlig Marcia Coon

Ellen Shaw-Maceko Wayne Bruce Inglis

Ex-Officio Bob Worden Dennis Carlson

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KEUKA CALENDAR

MARCH Curtiss Museum - Civil War Exhibit…..3/5-4/25

Polar Bear Plunge - The Switz…………….3/27

Easter Egg Hunt - H‘sport………………….3/27

Curtiss Museum - Finger lakes Boating

Museum Exhibit………………..3/27-5/31

APRIL

Breakfast w/ the Easter Bunny - PY Moose

Club…………………………………….4/3

Around the World in 8 Wineries - Keuka Lake

Wine Trail………………….……..4/17-18

MAY

Keuka in Bloom - Keuka Lake Wine Trail.

……………………………………..5/16-17

16th Annual Antique Show & Sale - PY Grange

Hall………………………………...………….5/22

Fly-In Breakfast - Dundee…………………..5/31

Parades: PY & Dundee……………………..5/31

Calendars for Deployed Middle-East Service People The KLA will send copies of our popular ―KLAeidoscope Of Keu-ka‖ calendars to active duty Keuka area service people deployed to the Middle East as a reminder of home and our support for them. You provide names and addresses of active duty service personnel currently deployed to the Middle East (Iraq, Afghani-stan, Persian Gulf, Arab Emirates, etc.) who are from the Keuka Lake area or from families of active KLA members. Just call or mail the KLA office with this information. Although no money is required, we would be glad to have contributions to help cover the cost of the calendars

Apparel Order Info on page 23


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Sponsor – $100 Discover

Patron – $150

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KEUKA LAKE ASSOCIATION OFFICE

The KLA office is located at 142 Main St, in Penn Yan, the corner of Main & Maiden Lane. Mail to PO 35, Penn Yan, NY 14527. The of-fice is usually open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Please stop by if you are in the village. You can contact the office either by phone: 866-369-3781, local 315-694-7324 (answering machine attached) or

email: [email protected]. Margo G. McTaggart, KLA Administrative Assistant

Are your neighbors members of the KLA?

Whether they live on the lake or anywhere with-in the watershed, they have an interest in the future health and viability of Keuka Lake. Why not ask them if they are members...and encour-age them to join? Why not give a KLA member-ship as a gift? Applications are also available on our website.

KLA MEMBERSHIP PROCESS

March - Dues renewal notices mailed.

September - Last newsletter for those who have not renewed. Check the expi-ration date on your address label.

January - Membership for NEW members who join after Jan 1 will be extended through the next membership year.

MEMBERSHIP AND KLA OFFICE INFORMATION

ADVERTISING IN THE KLA NEWSLETTER

The advertising section of the KLA newsletter is provided as a service to KLA members only. The ads are restricted to 1/4 page, to fit into a 3 3/4 by 4 3/4 . It is the responsibility of the advertiser to contact the KLA office with a request for ad space in an upcoming issue and send a print ready ad. The deadline for the June 2010 issue is May 1st and will be accepted in the order submitted. However, in an attempt to present an interesting diversity of ads, the KLA editorial staff reserves the right to limit the number of any specific type of ad in any given issue. KLA also reserves the right to decline ac-ceptance of an ad deemed inappro-priate for the publication. Ad cost for each issue is $50. Thank you to all of the KLA members who have ad-vertised with us .


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The KLA’s mission is to preserve and protect Keuka Lake and its natural beauty for future generations.

Winter Beach Carole Simone - March 2010

Sky Streaks Brett Lange - May 2010

PRESIDENT’S REPORT · Page 2 March 2010 KLA Newsletter

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