Pilot Program Aims to Fight Harmful Algal Blooms on Skaneateles Lake

Harmful Algal Blooms on Skaneateles Lake (Skaneateles Watershed Municipal Partnership) ITHACA, NY — Skaneateles Lake will be the site of a pilot program to combat Harmful Algal Blooms. The program will utilize dock and boat based sensors, as well as satellites to detect HABs on Skaneateles Lake. To remediate the toxic blooms, dock mounted devices…

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Kelles Takes to Task DEC’s Study on Phosphorus and HABs

A harmful algal bloom that occurred on the southwest shores of Cayuga Lake on July 13th, 2019. (Community Science Institute) ITHACA, NY — New York State Assemblymember Anna Kelles has raised concerns about a report calculating the maximum amounts of phosphorus allowed in Cayuga Lake. Limiting phosphorus pollution is vital to protecting the lake from…

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Greenidge Generation, From Peaker Plant to Mining Bitcoin

Greenidge Generation LLC operates a natural gas power plant near the shore of Seneca Lake, that has evolved into a bitcoin mining operation. Greenidge’s parent company now boasts that it’s the first bitcoin mining operation with it’s own in-house energy supply being publicly traded on the stock market, but they have attracted the scrutiny of…

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