ALBANY, N.Y. – Fulton’s Lake Neatahwanta is slated to be a testing site for experimental treatments to combat harmful algal blooms as early as this summer.

Water quality issues, not limited to HABs, have plagued Lake Neatahwanta for decades, and local officials in recent years have undertaken efforts to dredge the shallow body of water in an effort to clean the lake. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) and Clarkson University would be deploying new technologies to combat harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the 715-acre lake this summer.

Lake Neatahwanta HAB

State officials announced this week that new technologies to combat harmful algal blooms (HABs) would be tested in Lake Neatahwanta. DEC records indicate HABs in Lake Neatahwanta, pictured above earlier this year, have been reported each of the past nine years. 

Lake Neatahwanta HABs

Harmful algal blooms, or HABs, such as the one pictured above in Lake Neatahwanta earlier this year, are widespread throughout New York and pose a unique threat to aquatic ecosystems. 

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