Coalition Letter Which Requests That Governor Cuomo Take Urgent Action to Eliminate Water Quality Impairments That Cause Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms Across New York State


EPA Region II Administrator Peter Lopez's 12/23/19 Response to Walter Hang's 10/25/19 and 11/6/19 Letters Which Request a Comprehensive TMDL for Cayuga Lake


Request That EPA Require a TMDL for Cayuga Lake that Eliminates Lake Source Cooling's Improperly Authorized Untreated Phosphorus Discharge and Serves as a National Model of Effective Watershed Clean Up


Request that the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Comprehensive Watershed Clean Up Plan Adopted for Cayuga Lake Halt Silt/Sediment Non-Point Source Pollution Impairments


New York State DEC response on behalf of Governor Cuomo to Toxics Targeting's 10/22/19 Cargill Salt Mine Letter and 11/6/19 Cayuga Lake TMDL letter


U.S. EPA Response to the 11/8/19 Letter Re: CAYUGA NATION and CORNELL LAKE SOURCE COOLING NEED FOR PROPER TMDL


Letter to EPA's Peter Lopez regarding Cayuga Nation and Cornell's Lake Source Cooling Need for a Proper TMDL





Click here to download the Reported Harmful Algal Blooms in New York State (2019) in PDF format





Click here to download the Waterbodies with HAB Notifications - 2019 in PDF format

Click here to download the New York's Dirty Dozen: Twelve Waterbodies with Highest Number of Reported HABs in 2019 in PDF format

Click here to download the Photos of New York Harmful Algal Blooms Reported in 2019 to the State Department of Environmental Conservation in PDF format

Toxics Targeting says Cayuga Lake had most HABs reports this year - 11/22/19

Hang to hold news event regarding NY HABs at Ithaca’s East Shore Park - 11/21/19

Clear As Mud - Cayuga Lake Modeling Project Incomplete - 11-18-2015

Lake Source Cooling Isn’t the Whole Problem - 11-28-2012

$2.1M study ordered for Cayuga Lake - 10-20-2012

Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Walter Hang Meet With EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Regarding Cornell's Lake Source Cooling Facility and Toxic Sites in Ithaca, NY

Walter Hang Meets With DEC Commissioner Grannis Regarding Cornell's Lake Cooling Discharge and Cleaning Up Cayuga Lake

Pollution Patrol - 7-22-2009

DEC: Lake Source Cooling may hurt Cayuga - 5-29-2009

Critics, Cornell debate lake source cooling's role in chlorophyll increase - 11-14-2008

DEC orders Cornell to submit more analyses for Lake Source Cooling permit - 5-15-2008

DEC wants more data on Lake Source Cooling at CU - 9-27-2007

Aid to Environment, Or Threat to Lake?; Cornell Pursues Pumping Plan, But Critics Fear Fouled Water - 3-27-1999

Click here to download the Cayuga Lake Maps on Chlorophyll a and Soluble Reactive Phosphorus in PDF format


U. S. EPA's 7/99 Landmark Lake Source Cooling/Cayuga Lake Clean Up Proposal

Coalition Letters

Coalition Letter Which Requests That Governor Cuomo Clean Up Cayuga Lake Now


Letters

Request That EPA Require a TMDL for Cayuga Lake that Eliminates Lake Source Cooling's Improperly Authorized Untreated Phosphorus Discharge and Serves as a National Model of Effective Watershed Clean Up - 10-24-2019

Walter Hang's Comments on DEC's Draft 2014 303(d) Listing for Southern Cayuga Lake - 3-25-2014

Letter to Gov. Cuomo requesting that he take immediate action to eliminate massive water quality impairments in Southern Cayuga Lake - 5-23-2012

Letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson requesting that she take immediate action to eliminate massive water quality impairments in Southern Cayuga Lake - 4-5-2012

NRDC Cornell Lake Source Cooling Permit Letter - 12-11-1998




Action Alerts

Help Clean Up Cayuga Lake NOW!!!/Urgent Citizens Alert