Spring 2012, Individual Senior Integrative Experience, ENV-300
Environmental Studies Program
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Advisor: Professor John Halfman

Owasco Lake Watershed

Maggie Stewart and Emily Cummings investigated a number of ways to improve water quality in Owasco Lake.  Their starting point was the information complied in a recent report on water quality in Owasco Lake

Their information is linked here

Spring 2012, Group Senior Integrative Experience, ENV-301
Environmental Studies Program
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Advisor: Professor John Halfman

Seneca Lake Watershed

Pertinent Facts:

• Supplies ~100,000 people with Class AA Drinking Water
• Deepest Finger Lake: 198 meters (650 ft)
• Longest Residence Time: 18 years
• Largest Volume 15.5 km3 (4.1 x 109 gallons)
• Primary Inflows
  • Catharine Creek
  • Keuka Lake Outlet
• Groundwater
• Outflow
• Seneca-Cayuga Canal (Seneca River)
• Length: 56 km (35 miles)
• Mean Width: 3 km (1.9 miles)
• Surface Area: 175 km2 (42,800 acres)
• Mean Surface Elevation: ~130 meters (440 ft)

The Group SIE Class investigated a number of ways to improve water quality in the lake.  Their starting point was the information complied in the Seneca Lake Watershed Characterization. 

Their information is linked below (in both a paper and 3x4-ft poster formats):

• Best Management Practices: Opportunities and Strategies
  • Jerimiah Booream-Phelps (Report, Poster)
• Wetlands as Buffer-Zone Nutrient Sinks and the Implications for the Seneca Watershed
  • Ellie Milano (Report, Poster)
• How Inter-Municipal Policies could benefit the Seneca Lake Watershed
  • Anna Hertlein (Report, Poster)
• Seneca Lake Rainbow Trout
  • Chris Warren (Report, Poster)
• Manure Digester Technology:  Seneca Lake Watershed
  • Greg Searles (Report, Poster)
• Active Phosphate Sequestration in the Seneca Lake Watershed
  • Adam Moser (Report, Poster)
• Invasive Macrophytes in Seneca Lake; Eurasian Watermilfoil
  • Logan Vairo (Report, Poster)
• The Effects of Mining Operations within the Watershed
  • Taylor Weber (Report, Poster)
• Your Health, the Degradation of Water Supplies and Seneca Lake
  • Kara Ruskin (Report, Poster)
• Invasive Clams in Seneca Lake (NY): Corbiculoa fluminea (Asian Clams)
  • Bart Flynn (Report, Poster)
• Seneca Lake Watershed Management Plan:  Recreational Boating
  • Carl Schmidlapp (Report, Poster)
• An Environmental Perspective of Liquid Petroleum Storage in Salt Mines off of Seneca Lake
  • Drew Coogan (Report, Poster)
• Potential Landfill Leachate Runoff into Seneca Lake
  • Katherine Burgos (Report, Poster)
• Seneca Lake Watershed: Land Use - Land Cover vs. Nutrient Loading
  • Alex Pugliese (Report, Poster)