Chautauqua Lake is evidencing some serious changes.
Managing What’s Hard to See
Category: Nutrients
Reducing Nutrients in our Lakes
This diagram details how ecosystems are complex and that changes in one part of the system can impact other parts of the system.
Reduce Nutrients for Healthier Lakes
Each of our regional lakes –Findley, Cassadaga, Bear, and Chautauqua — is part of a system of connected environments, often referred to as an ecosystem. Human activities within these ecosystems can have positive or negative impacts on their delicate balance. Nutrients in lakes, such as Chautauqua, come from different sources including runoff from land, leaking septic systems, release from lake …
Want To Improve Chautauqua Lake? Focus on the Watershed
Chautauqua Lake is an old lake, rich in plant diversity and an abundance of living things. The shoreline waters host a well-established diversity of aquatic plants that support multiple natural communities, hold sediments in place, and provide food, oxygen, and critical habitat for countless creatures. All are woven together in an amazing web of interdependency, complexity, and connection. But our …