34 D8. Environmental Geoscience (Posters)

Monday, 19 March 2018
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Lake Champlain Exhibition Hall

LAKE OR WETLAND; SEMANTICS VS. MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

Paper number: 34-32
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Authors

  • Sonja Leigh Wixom Presenting Author
    State University of New York College at Oneonta, oneonta, NY

Abstract

Koinonia is a private Lutheran campground located in Sullivan County, New York. In 1965, Mill Brook (a spring on the property) was impounded by a class I earthen-dam with a spillway. The body of water was considered a shallow lake (z-bar = 1 m, zm= 2 m) by stakeholders. The board of directors commissioned the Lake Management program through the State University of New York College at Oneonta to manage abundant aquatic macrophytes. During preliminary research, the waterbody was discovered to be a Federal and State-Protected wetland. Efforts for a management plan that integrates lake, stream, and wetland ecology have since been redirected toward education, conservation, and preservation. This wetland has been assessed for ecosystem services such as water filtration abilities, carbon, nutrient, and sediment sequestration, aquatic habitat evaluation, flood control, and local property value contribution.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 2

doi: 10.1130/abs/2018NE-311139

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