Helping You Protect Homeowners, Builders Our Skaneateles Lake and Contractors: Watershed Before you build or For more information, contact: disturb the land… n The City of Syracuse Water Department 20 W. Genesee Street Skaneateles. NY 13152 315-685-6486 315-685-8160 (fax) n NYSDEC Region 7 Office 615 Erie Blvd West Syracuse, NY 13204 315-426-7504 n Onondaga County Soil and Water Conservation District 315-677-3851 n Cayuga County Soil and Water Conservation District 315-252-4171 n Cortland County Soil and Water Conservation District 607-753-0851 This brochure is brought to you by: Onondaga County Council on Environmental Health Onondaga County Health Department Learn the New City of Syracuse Department of Water Skaneateles Lake Watershed Produced with funds through the Finger Lakes-Lake Ontario Rules and Regulations Watershed Protection Alliance (FL-LOWPA) (5/05) on Erosion Control What are the Skaneateles What do the changes Who develops an Lake Watershed Rules and require me to do? Erosion/Stormwater Regulations? n If you are building a project that needs a Control Plan (ESCP)? n The Skaneateles Lake Watershed Rules local building permit, other land The applicant for the building permit is and Regulations are special New York disturbance permit, or a shoreline permit, responsible for developing and submitting State regulations that are intended to submit copies of the application to the City the ESCP. preserve the quality of Skaneateles Lake. of Syracuse Water Department. Copies of the ESCP must be submitted to n n The watershed is defined as all land that If you are located in an "environmentally the City of Syracuse Water Department at drains toward the lake. The watershed sensitive" area and your project disturbs least ten business days prior to doing any rules apply to all lands located in the 5000 sq. ft or more of land, you are land disturbance activity. watershed (see map). required to submit an Erosion/ Stormwater Control Plan (ESCP). This applies to most of the Skaneateles Lake What does an ESCP do? Why were changes made to Watershed. the Watershed Rules to An ESCP outlines the measures that will be n Examples of projects requiring ESCP's put in place during construction to: include erosion control? include general construction, road n minimize the area of exposed soil on site construction and maintenance, and tree n keep the soil on site n Eroding construction sites are a leading removal (silviculture). n handle expected storm water flows cause of water quality problems in New n reduce velocity of storm water flows York State. n If your project disturbs more than one acre n keep clean water away from areas where of land it is also subject to regulations n There is a critical need to protect the soil is disturbed under the USEPA Stormwater Phase II excellent water quality of Skaneateles rule and NY State SPDES General Permit Lake as an unfiltered drinking water 02-01. For more information, contact the Can I prepare an ESCP by supply with more stringent requirements. NYSDEC Region 7 Office. myself or do I need a If found necessary, a filtration system would be very expensive. n There are specific provisions to prevent professional? erosion from public highway construction For a simple project on flat land, you may activities and to control erosion on farms. prepare the plan. For more complex projects, such as a single family home, Violators Beware! contact a design professional. Violators face a stop work order and/or If you are not sure if this applies to your fines. project or would like more details, contact the City of Syracuse Water Department. .