WELCOME TO THE SILVER LAKE ASSOCIATION
WELCOME TO THE SILVER LAKE ASSOCIATION
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At the September SLA meeting, CLEAN/SLA distributed 1000 leaf bags to tract directors/members for Fall leaf clean up.
PLEASE DON’T RAKE IN THE LAKE!
Why not?
1. Increases harmful algae blooms.
2. Kills fish.
3. Fills up the outlet and ultimately harms the lake.
What to do instead
Please be a good lake steward and neighbor and DON’T RAKE IN THE LAKE!
Thank you to CONGRESSWOMAN CLAUDIA TENNEY for your support of the Silver Lake Dredging Project.
Wyoming County secured $1M for the dredging project ($3M ask).
There may be a Senate top up.
The SEQR* was unsuccessful (significant artifacts found). SLAWQ team members suggested that covering these sites could serve as a preservation/protection effort.
Next steps TBD
*Go to the CLEAN website for more information.
Over the past 1 1/2 years, Sherry and Mark have transformed their landscape into a picturesque retreat that delights visitors and nurtures birds, bees and butterflies. The gardens contain many perennials, a few annuals for color and unique shrubs and trees. All of the gardens are edged with a flat rock boarder.
The Silver Lake Sea Serpent has it's own special place in Sherry and Mark's landscape and looks like it is swimming in the lake!
The hummingbird area offers an oasis with a unique water feature for these important pollinators. Congratulations to Sherry and Mark for all of your hard work creating a beautiful landscape design! We look forward to seeing your backyard transformation next year!
2024 PARADE - Led by Sherrif Dave Richardson, we had 21 boats parading around the lake with about 120 kids/volunteers from the RFKC. Minutes before the parade started, we had a downpour and at 6:00 it was still raining. Jennifer Wolfer from RFKC said "it is God's tears of joy raining down on us". Silver Lakers all still showed up in the rain for these kids! It was amazing to see all of the boats and also so many of our neighbors out on their decks cheering us on! Thank you to all who came out to make a special experience for these kids!
NOTE FROM CAMP DIRECTOR: Nancy Louk Murphy
As Director of Houghton Royal Family Kids Camp, I can’t say enough about how much this fantastic adventure meant to our campers! Thank you, Association members, for your commitment to Make Moments Matter (our RFKC motto).
The 8th annual CLEAN Golf Tournament was sold out at 25 teams. Thank you to all of the participants, sponsors and volunteers for a fun day of golf and supporting our cause. Proceeds from this event go towards projects to improve the health and vitality of Silver Lake!
Next year's tournament date:
Saturday, July 19, 2025.
As of 1/1/2025, EVERYONE needs a boater safety certificate to operate any motorized boat in NY State. Click the link below for course options.
Wow! These kids raised over $100 for CLEAN@Silver Lake (cleanatsilverlake.org) on July 3rd at their lemonade stand in the Institute to help keep the lake CLEAN! Thank you to Peggy Phillips' grandkids Maddie, Nathan, (neighbor) Carolyn and Abby for your donation to CLEAN at Silver Lake!
The Silver Lake temperature array has been successfully rebuilt, relocated, and reinstalled. A BIG shout out to Rob Ritz and Karl Hanafin for designing and constructing the new, more robust array. Rob and Karl also installed the new system at its new location. Data from the new array can be seen at the following website: https://karl.hanafins.com/silver-lake-thermocline-data---station-1
The temperature array is designed to accurately record depth- and time-dependent data from the lake at 15-minute time intervals throughout the year. These data are used to observe in-lake mixing events / ‘turn over’ in real time. In the warmer summer season, lake-wide mixing events are often precursors to algae blooms (nutrients from sediment in the lake sediment + delivery to the lake surface + sun light = algae growth).
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