Join the LGA’s HABWatch Program & Help Protect Our Lake
The Lake George Association needs Lake-loving volunteers to “adopt” areas on the Lake and help us watch for excessive algae growth - particularly harmful algal blooms (HABs). To learn more identifying HABs please review this resource.
As a vital member of the HABWatch program, you will monitor shoreline or near-shore areas around your home or business, or other Lake areas you frequent, to document the growth of algae and report your findings to the LGA. This information helps us identify algae problems and develop science-guided solutions. If you spot a HAB, you’ll also notify the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Learn from LGA staff members the basics of a HAB, some of the things you can do on your property to help prevent them, and how to join our HABWatch program to help spot any suspicious blooms, should they occur.
Please fill out this form is you see a HAB on Lake George
LGA HABWatchers receive email alerts from us any time water and weather conditions are especially conducive to HAB formation, as well as notifications of any ongoing HABs.
Your reports will play an integral role in helping us validate Jefferson Project's HAB Modeling research, document the extent of an ongoing bloom and guide HAB toxin sampling.
Excessive algae growth is a serious and growing threat to Lake George water quality. A major HAB, like those that have devastated other lakes and lake-based economies across the country, is something we all want to avoid.
You can help! Volunteer for HABWatch now.
If you’re a property owner in the Lake George watershed, go even further and get a personalized Lake Protector Profile with steps you can take at your home or business to minimize algae growth in our Lake. Sign up as a Lake Protector today.
