Reports, Publications & Educational Resources

NEW! Watershed Management Plan Update.  

Check out our 20 Year Report.

Safe Yield Evaluation for Conesus Lake, 2021


Watershed Education Center - Yearly Educational Program

Stormwater Toolkit (2019)

Green Infrastructure and Landscaping (2018)

Wilkins Creek Subwatershed Stormwater Study (2018)

Appendices and Tables

Analysis of Recommended Short-term Streambank Stabilization Options North McMillan Creek - Town of Conesus (2018)

Memo:  Analysis of Recommended Short-term Streambank Stabilization Options North McMillan Creek

Feasibility Study (2013)

Watershed Characterization Report - Ten Year Update (2013)



CLWMP Annual Report Cards

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

2003              2008             2013              2018               2023
2004              2009             2014              2019              2024
2005               2010             2015             2020
2006                2011             2016              2021
2007                2012             2017             2022

Response Plans

Monitoring Reports


2025

SUNY Geneseo: Distribution, Abundance and Standing Crop of Macrophytes in Eurasian Watermilfoil-Dominated Beds

Upstate Freshwater Institute (UFI): 2025 Conesus Lake Macrophyte Rake-Toss Survey

SUNY Brockport:  2025 Livingston County Tributary Water Quality Monitoring Program:  USDA Streams, Unassessed Waters, and Reference Streams

2024

Conesus Lake Monitoring 2024: Internal Phosphorus Loading in the Three Basins

2024 Livingston County Water Quality Monitoring Program: Unassessed Waters, USDA, and Reference Streams

2023
SUNY Geneseo: Conesus Lake Monitoring 2023 - Understanding the Determinants of Summer Cyanobacterial Blooms

SUNY Brockport: 2023 Livingston County Water Quality Monitoring Program - Unassessed Waters, USDA, and Reference Streams

2022
SUNY Geneseo:  Conesus Lake Monitoring 2022 - Seasonal and Long-term Trends in Phytoplankton Community Structure and Water Column Characteristics

SUNY Brockport:  Livingston County Tributary Water Quality Monitoring - North McMillan Stress Stream Analysis

2021

SUNY Geneseo/SUNY Brockport: Report on 2021 Conesus Lake In-Lake Monitoring - 1. Zooplankton Distribution, Abundance and Biomass; II. Follow-up Study of Eurasian Watermilfoil Biomass in the Cottonwood Gully, Sutton Point Gully, Graywood Gully and North Gully, Macrophyte Beds


2020

2019

 2018

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



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