" mike Nozzolio step up! you are not doing enough "

" In response to yesterday's "Breaking News" version of this story, I wrote: owascolake is right: Please make the DEC ENFORCE their own regulations! Why do we wait until pollution is all the way to the lake to do something about it? This is very little and very late but still better than nothing; just don't forget the tributaries upstream from the lake as well. ***---***I also wrote: tome8689 is right too -- the pollution in the lakes comes primarily from the big factory farms. But just try to do something about it. You can't even find out what the rules are for safely spreading manure -- it's so complicated. You have to have specific information on the composition and condition of soil on each piece of land, the plants being grown there and what the cows who produced the waste ate, as well as the amount of manure and the acreage. Good luck! This way those farms do whatever they want, have way more animals than the land can bear and no one enforces the regulations. Just try calling the DEC and see if you can get them to look into a situation -- good luck again! They hide behind their pronouncement of "non-point-source" pollution and just do as they please. We all know whence the pollution comes, but no one will just say it "The emperor has no clothes." I wouldn't mind my tax dollars being spent to pin-point those non-point-sources officially and then DOING SOMETHING about the overspreading of animal waste that is washing into our water supply: tributaries, wells and lakes. It's not farming in general which is a problem -- small family farms covered the countryside a hundred years ago and weren't polluting the environment the way modern factory farms with confined animals in the thousands do today. Greed is a terrible and destructive thing. "