The following projects have been submitted by watershed partners for consideration. The Project Advisory Committee will be tasked with ranking these projects to support future funding opportunities.
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| Project ID | Ranking | Name | Description/Goals | Partners | Funding Source(s) | Links | Project Documents | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01 | Environmental Protection Overlay Training | Develop and present a training program for municipal boards to improve understanding of and encourage development/adoption of environmental overlay districts. | TBD | Pjt_2019-01_Envir_Prot_Overlay.pdf | ||||
| 2019-02 | Private/Public Timber Harvesting Training | Training on Timber Harvesting for municipalities and a separate training on Timber Harvesting BMPs for logging companies (what’s expected, BMPs). Discussion of model local laws and/or good examples from other rural towns that regulate logging activities in a pragmatic matter. | TBD | Pjt_2019-02.pdf | ||||
| 2019-03 | 2 | Cayuga lake Watershed Rules and Regulations | Develop a community supported set of watershed rules and regulations leading to the development of a watershed inspector position. | TBD | Pjt_2019-03.pdf | |||
| 2019-04 | 8 | Hackberry Lane/Coy Glen Erosion Control and Streambank Remediation | Streambank survey, remediation design, and implementation of BMPs to address streambank erosion. | Town of Ithaca; Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-04.pdf Pjt_2019-04_map.pdf | |||
| 2019-04a | 13 | Woodgate Lane | Streambank survey, drainage delineation, slope stabilization, and upstream mitigation projects to address potential municipal stormwater runoff causing erosion and reduce nutrient loading to tributaries to Cayuga Lake. | Town of Ithaca; Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-04a.pdf Pjt_2019-04a_map.pdf | |||
| 2019-05 | 6 | Seven Mile Drive | Streambank stabilization and revegetation with possible buffer installation to reduce sediment loading and maintenance. | Town of Ithaca; Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-05.pdf Pjt_2019-05_map.pdf | |||
| 2019-07 | 4 | South Hill Trail | Streambank assessment required to support streambank stabilization and possible re-grading plan to reduce sediment loading to creek. | City of Ithaca; Town of Ithaca | https://ithacatrails.org/site/South%20Hill%20Recreation%20Way | Pjt_2019-07.pdf Pjt_2019-07_map.pdf | ||
| 2019-08 | 9 | West King Rd. | Installation of outlet protection and possible drainage velocity control retrofits to reduce stormwater velocity, reduce sediment and nutrient loading, and protect road infrastructure. | Town of Ithaca; Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-08.pdf Pjt_2019-08_map.pdf | |||
| 2019-09 | Cayuga Inlet/Eddydale Farm Stand | The Project would seek to prevent further erosion of the Cayuga Inlet streambank by strengthening the riparian buffer. | Town of Ithaca, Tompkins SWCD | Pjt_2019-09.pdf | ||||
| 2019-10 | 15 | Trumbull's Corners Rd. | Design and construction of streambank stabilization practices to control erosion/bank failure and reduce sediment loading. | Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-10.pdf Pjt_2019-10_Photos_UpstreamBank-1.pdf | |||
| 2019-11 | Enfield Elementary School | Significant streambank erosion at culvert under Enfield Rd, possible bank stabilization. | Town of Enfield | Pjt_2019-11.pdf | ||||
| 2019-12 | 3 | Ditch Management Remediation Project | Upgrade all road ditches located on steeply sloped areas adjacent to Cayuga Lake to reduce sediment and nutrient pollution from the ditch network connected to streams which enter Cayuga Lake. | Town of Ulysses Highway Department; Cornell University, CALS; Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-12.pdf Ulys_Twn_RES__for_Ditch_Management_Remediation_for_IO.pdf | |||
| 2019-13 | 10 | Caroline Elementary School / Six-Mile Creek | Stream survey, streambank stabilization and in-stream stabilization design; signage and curriculum components to reduce nutrient and sediment loading to Six Mile Creek, and the added beneficial opportunity to provide outdoor education to elementary students. | Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-13.pdf | |||
| 2019-14 | 11 | Lychuck Streambank Remediation | Install upstream cross veins to reduce velocity/dissipate energy and return to more natural flow patterns. | Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-14.pdf Lychuck_Existing_Stream-1.pdf | |||
| 2019-15 | 20 Middaugh Road | Beaver Creek area needs possible vegetation plantings to aid in erosion control in the floodplain. | Town of Caroline | Pjt_2019-15.pdf | ||||
| 2019-16 | 17 | Middaugh Farm | Integrated stream management project to address streambed and bank erosion and resulting loss of farmland to improve water quality and aquatic habitat. | Tompkins County SWCD | Pjt_2019-16.pdf | |||
| 2019-17 | 20 | Wyllie's/Brooktondale Rd | Streambank erosion control and stream alignment including installation of upstream and on-site cross veins, bank armoring and buffer planting. | Tompkins County SWCD; Town of Caroline | Pjt_2019-17.pdf | |||
| 2019-19 | Forestry & Silviculture Regulation | Research on existing regulations and disseminate information. | Town of Caroline | Pjt_2019-19.pdf | ||||
| 2019-20 | 18 | Campbell Meadow Park | Gravel clean out and streambank stabilization to improve water quality and reduce erosion in Fall Creek. | Tompkins County SWCD; Dryden Town | Pjt_2019-20.pdf | |||
| 2019-21 | 1 | Covert Salt Barn | Build a permanently covered salt barn with an impermeable base to store and mix salt and stone, and reduce sediment and chloride loading to an unnamed tributary to Cayuga Lake. Town plans to submit under next round WQIP funding. | Town of Covert | Pjt_2019-21.pdf | |||
| 2019-22 | Darling Road Outlet Protection and Stabilization | Reduce velocity of culvert discharge from Sheldrake Creek during storm events. | Town of Lodi Highway Department | Pjt_2019-22.pdf | ||||
| 2019-23a | 16 | Interlaken Detention Pond and Soil Stabilization/Streambank Restoration | Plan, design and construct a detention pond and install shoreline buffer to slow velocity and reduce downstream flooding on private property and reduce sediment and nutrient loading into nearby streams. Additional goals are to reduce flood impact risks in and around the village. | Village of Interlaken | Pjt_2019-23A.pdf LWRP_-_Project_Idea_-_Interlaken.pdf | |||
| 2019-27 | 14 | Salmon Creek Stabilization, Myers Park | Install 350 feet of rip-rap for shoreline protection on Salmon Creek. Project has been included as a component of Town of Lansing's Parks, Recreation, and Trails Master Plan which has recieved grant funding from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. For more information on the Master Plan for Myers Park visit https://www.lansingparksandtrails.com/myerspark and for more informaiton on the grant visit https://www.lansingrec.com/parksrec/page/parks-recreation-grant. | Town of Lansing | Pjt_2019-27.pdf Myers_Park_Streambank_Stabilization_1.pdf Myers_pt_e-mail.pdf | |||
| 2019-29 | 5 | Salmon Creek Stream Realignment | Realignment of approximately 1,650' of Salmon Creek due to lateral migration of Salmon Creek channel to reduce sediment and mitigate flood risk and impacts. | Town of Lansing; Tompkins County SWCD | pjt_2019-29.pdf TLansing_FY2020-FMA-Project-LOI.pdf |