" What a total waste of money. This pathetic inspector sits at her dsesk with her crayons and makes signs. Give me a break. The problem is, and alway has been, the commercial farms polluting the watershed that feed our lake. I said at the time this postion was a waste of taxpayer money and the County Legislature was inept to create it. The postion has no enforcement powers and it is the job of the State DEC to enforce pollution laws. I can't wait to see the beautiful signs created by the County Legislatures' newest job postion. "

" Wait, I just re-read this. Am I getting it right? The way to combat the serious problem of pollution in our lakes is to spend our tax dollars on a graphic designer to create signs to raise public awareness?!?!??? THAT is considered a significant accomplishment?!??

O-M-G!

No wonder nothing ever gets fone about this problem! Talk about diverting attention and funds into all kinds of stupid, pointless projects. AS IF the majority of the pollution came from ordinary people casually dumping the last of their beer in the lake or something!

The sign idea is about as good as posting a No Spitting on the Deck sign to save the Titanic from sinking.... "

" keep up the good work ,preserve american history .keep owasco lake beautiful.. "

" And it's not just manure in that liquid they dump by the hundreds of thousands of gallons to runoff into our lakes. (I stand by that figure, as I personally witnessed 630,000 gallons spread on less than 40 acres in less than 2 days across from my house last summer when the ground was so dry and hard it wasn't absorbing anything, then the day after that, it poured for hours -- washing all that gunk into the little stream that runs into the lake).

Has everyone seen the AP article on pharmaceuticals in our water supply across the country? If you read the whole article, there's info on what enters our water supply from agricultural run-off.

Well, there are farms right here in Cayuga County spreading "sewage sludge" on their fields -- that's human waste, kids, and everything else that goes down the toilet and the drains, and it's going onto our local farm fields. They test for a tiny handful of pollutants (when they bother with the pretense of testing at all), but there are hundreds of pollutants which have been found in this stuff for which the government does not check -- that includes all kinds of pharmaceuticals, hormones, carcinogens, etc.

On factory farms, they treat animals with antibiotics (rather than keep them in clean, healthy conditions), and that runs through their systems and comes out the other end too. They give beef cattle steroids, ditto. They use intense-strength cleansers for the milking machines, which they wash away with the rest of the waste in the barn. They use all kinds of chemicals, from lime to teat-sprays -- and it all goes into the liquid they spread on the soil next door to our lakes

Then there's the portion of it which is "lost to the environment" in the air -- all kinds of noxious toxins we breathe. That stuff smells bad for a reason -- it's toxic.

That's why the big corporate agribusinesses are putting covers on their manure ponds -- because the gases released are dangerous. And guess who pays for that? Not the businesses, but you and me, fellow taxpayer -- we are paying to clean up after the destruction caused by corporate greed.

Regulations are inadequate and ineffective. We need to take back local control and tell corporate polluters that we will not accept their destruction of our land, our lakes, and our health any more. We must pass ordinances that say NO, you may not do that here. Period. "

" when i come home to visit .im going straight to the pump house and diving off the wall..KEEP OWASCO BEAUTIFUL !1 "

" Owasco Lake Watershed Inspector. Get out of your cozy office. Drive out in the country. You can see why the lake is in bad shape. There are tanker trucks of liquid manure being dumped on the water sheds of owasco and cayuga lakes. Here is an example spreading manure on top of melting snow. All the liquid manure will run right in to the lakes. Your just a kid freash out of college. Look around if you are other than book smart. The problem is right in front of your face. Lets hire more people and do more studies to see what the promblem is. Its only taxpayers money... "

" LOL ;-) "

" now I am frightened...I agree with Farmer's Gal on this one....stop making the lake the agri-sewer.... "

" The majority of gunk in the lake comes from agricultural runoff. As long as the officials are in denial about this, protecting special interests in the area of corporate agribusiness, it's all a sham and a game. Until something is done about this issue, the rest is moot. "

" It's about time! Our Finger Lakes have become a place to dump garbage. For Example, The Prison in Moravia. Let's dump disease infested human waste in the lake. Locals can swim in it!! Another good idea for our stupid Politicians!!! Retards that get money for being stupid. "