Canandaigua Lake Erosion Control Projects

As part of our GLC Finger Lakes Phosphorus Reduction Project, Ontario County SWCD recently installed 2 broad-base Water and Sediment Control Basins (WASCOBs), a grassed waterway, and an underground outlet support system. These projects store and convey damaging stormwater volumes across cropland in a non-erosive manner. The projects specifically treated areas of visible gully erosion on active row cropland that is located directly upslope of Canandaigua Lake. The completed projects have a sediment loss reduction of 31 tons of soil saved per year, a phosphorus savings of 19 lbs. per year and a nitrogen savings of 49.5 lbs. per year. The projects were all strategically placed on the fields in a manner that allowed the farmland to remain in full production.