Drainage Stabilization Benefiting Honeoye Lake

The Ontario County Soil & Water Conservation District provided technical assistance to the Town of Richmond and funding through the Finger Lakes-Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance (FLLOWPA) for a road ditch stabilization project in the Town of Richmond along the East Lake Road of Honeoye Lake. This road ditch had become unstable and was leading to severe erosion resulting in sediment and nutrient loss from the site. The Town of Richmond Highway Department replaced the existing driveway culvert pipe and installed two grade control structures utilizing large rock to help provide stabilization. This stabilization will reduce erosion and sediment loss from the area therefore decreasing the amount of sediment and nutrients entering Honeoye Lake.