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E-coli bacteria poses a great health risk to those who come in contact with it. It can be found in watersheds across the Adirondack Park, and must be monitored in order to protect ourselves.
Our Plan for Controlling E-Coli
The Department of Health regularly monitors water quality at swim and other public access areas for dangerous bacteria, notably e-coli, but it is up to private land owners or lake associations to monitor private watershed areas. We have proposed that the CSLAP and ALAP lake monitoring programs be expanded to add e-coli testing to the voluntary sampling currently done by lakeshore residents. There would obviously be different logistics as e-coli sample must be tested when fresh, and extra charges for this service, but if coordinated across the nearly 200 lakes in those programs we believe it could be done at a reasonable cost using commercial package delivery overnight services. We continue to work on this objective.
