Programs
An Informed and Involved Public is a goal of this Lake Champlain management plan.
What is Opportunities for Action?
This New York river is tidally influenced-- making it an Estuary too!
What is the Hudson?
One of the strategies used by this program involves identifying potential contaminant sources in and around municipal drinking water sources.
What is DWSP2?
This three-word model is the management approach used in Lake Champlain for prioritizing funding.
What is the Pressure-State-Response model?
This LCBP “lake library” welcomed nearly 39,000 visitors in FY24.
What is the Resource Room?
This project has 17 monitoring stations along the mainstem of the Hudson, providing real time data to users.
What is HRECOS?
This lake is the smallest of the Great Lakes, provides drinking water to over 9 million people, and was one of the three basins visited by NEIWPCC staff in 2025 as part of the Rotating Integrated Basin Program (RIBS).
What is Lake Erie (volume) or Lake Ontario (surface area)?
What is Cyanobacteria blooms or Bacteria (e.coli)?
Funding for the Hudson River programs come from this fund for capital projects throughout the state?
What is the NYS Environmental Protection Funds?
This program has worked with over 100 municipalities thought the State of NY, which has impacted more than 2,500,000 residents.
CHAMP is a volunteer program to monitor this throughout Lake Champlain.
What are Aquatic Invasive Species?
164,000 people have this water body as their drinking water supply.
What is Lake Champlain?
A Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) is made from calm water, warm water, and this other "ingredient".
What are excessive nutrients?
The Hudson River Estuary Program funded a pilot project permitting and replacing these barriers to aquatic organism passage- and contributors to local flooding.
What are culverts?
This year-long professional development program instructs educators how to teach about watershed topics.
What is Watershed for Every Classroom?
The Pleasant Valley Quarry in Duchess County, NY produces dolomite, a rock formation of calcium magnesium carbonate that is primarily crushed and sized for use as a road base material – and is permitted within this program designed to eliminate the pollution of New York waters and to maintain the highest quality of water possible.
What is State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES)?
This River is one of the main tributaries of the Hudson River.
What is the Mohawk?
Wastewater treatment facilities contribute this percentage of the annual phosphorous load to Lake Champlain.
What is 6%?
Funding for DWSP2 comes from two NYS departments- DEC and this other one.
What is NYS Department of Health?
This statewide program uses volunteers to help sample waterbodies across New York State.
What is the Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program (CSLAP)?
Within these areas, the implementation of best management practices and the enhanced review of development or alteration of the landscape are crucial steps in ensuring clean water goals are met.
What are Critical and Extended Source Areas?
Sampled by staff in 2025, this river features the widest waterfall in North America, famous for several daredevils who went over the falls in barrels.
What is the Niagara?
This soon-to-be created municipal role in the City of Glens Falls, NY will primarily promote clean water initiatives, including the city’s DWSP2 plan.
What is Watershed Steward?
The Lake Champlain Basin Program has several sources of funding for its work-- EPA, National Parks Service, Great Lakes Fishery Commission, and this agency, which also houses the National Weather Service.
What is National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?
This program gives high schoolers the opportunity to develop their own research projects over two weeks on the Hudson River.
What is TIDES?