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Miscellaneous Publications

  • ​Town of Mina Comprehensive Plan Draft of Community Survey Results
  • Temporary Policy of Required Septic System Improvements for Areas Around Chautauqua Lake and Findley Lake​

Sewer/Lake Quality Project and Publications

​Findley Lake is the westernmost lake in New York State and is fed primarily from underground springs as well as surface runoff from five tributaries within its 3,000 acre watershed. The lake was created from two ponds that were dammed up at their north outlet by Alexander Findley in 1815. Summer lake levels are maintained by the Findley Lake Watershed Foundation at about 1,420 feet above mean sea level and lowered in the winter using a mechanical gate at the spillway.

Findley Lake, like all natural lakes, has a life cycle or aging process that moves it from open water to become a wetland and then dry land. Humans can greatly accelerate the aging process by adding unnatural levels of nutrients to the lake’s water. Once nutrients enter the lake, they remain and are the fertilizer for weed growth and algal blooms.

Findley Lake has been studied extensively and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has designated Findley Lake as an impaired water body. In a July 7, 2022 letter to the Town of Mina, Melanie Stein, P.E. with DEC, states that the 2008 “Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Phosphorus in Findley Lake” set phosphorus goals and that “the TMDL requires a 100 percent reduction in phosphorus loading from residential septic systems. The report recommends a systemic approach, such as the formation of a sewer district and the discharge of treated wastewater outside of the watershed.”

  • Chautauqua County Health Department Frequently Asked Questions
  • Barton & LoGuidice Engineering Firm Frequently Asked Questions
  • October 21, 2023 SPECIAL ELECTION PROPOSED FORMATION OF THE FINDLEY LAKE SEWER DISTRICT Rules for Voting by Absentee Ballot
  • October 21, 2023 SPECIAL ELECTION PROPOSED FORMATION OF THE FINDLEY LAKE SEWER DISTRICT Rules for Voting
  • August 2023 Barton & Loguidice Engineers revised Sewer District Map, Plan and Report
  • July 29, 2023 Barton & Loguidice Engineers Findley Lake Sewer District Public Meeting Presentation
  • July 2023 Findley Lake Sanitary Sewer District Map, Plan, and Report
  • May 2023 Barton & Loguidice Non-Agricultural Nonpoint Source Planning Grants Kickoff Meeting
  • May 2023 Barton & Loguidice Findley Lake Watershed Map
  • February 2023 ​Chautauqua County Health Department Environmental Division presentation on February 16, 2023 to Mina Town Board Wastewater Treatment Systems/Septic Systems
  • September 2022  DEC Info Locator (waterbody fact sheets, including impairment status – turn on “Waterbody Inventory/Priority Waterbodies List” layer under DEC Information Layers/Environmental Quality/Environmental Monitoring)
  • September 2022  Current and Draft 303(d) Lists
  • September 2022  Monitoring Data Portal
  • September 2022 CSLAP Reports
  • September 2022 TMDL Information 
  • September 2022  Findley Lake Water Quality DEC (PowerPoint)
  • September 2022  Chautauqua County Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health Environmental Health Unit from Jessica Wuerstle, Environmental Health Director  
  • September 2022  Proposed Sewer District Draft Map, Plan and Report 
  • FL Sewer District Public Information
  • August 2022  Sewer District Boundary Map
  • July 2022  ​DEC Letter from Melanie Stein
  • June 2022  Preliminary Engineering Report  
  • June 2022  Preliminary Engineering Report Presentation  
  • January 2022  The State of Findley Lake  Chautauqua County Department of Health & SUNY Fredonia Department of Geosciences
  • January 2022  The Management Plan for Findley Lake and Its Watershed  Findley Lake Watershed Foundation (formerly Findley Lake Property Owners Association)
  • December 2021  Princeton Hydro Report 
  • 2021   Town of Mina Sewer Engineering RFP
  • January 2017  Engineering Report on Findley Lake Sewerage Project, Sewer District Formation Map, Plan and Report  Greenman Pedersen, Inc. 
  • January 2017  Mandatory Inspection Program for Lakeshore Onsite Waste Treatment Systems  Chautauqua County Department of Health & Human Services, Environmental Health Unit
  • July 2015  Town of Mina Sewer Project Overview  Rebecca Brumagin, Town Supervisor
  • July 2008  Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for Phosphorous in Findley Lake  The Cadmus Group Inc.
  • March 2007  Sources of Unwanted Nutrients at Findley Lake  SUNY Fredonia
  • March 2007  Water Quality Task Force Recommendations  Chautauqua County Water Quality Task Force ​

2883 North Road
PO Box 38
Findley Lake, New York 14736


Town Clerk Hours

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
8:30am - 4:30pm
(closed noon to 1)
Friday
8:30 am - 11:30am

Telephone

716-769-7204

Email

mina1@townofmina.info
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