There also could be a push to create some uniform rules for dealing with development. Guidelines from the new plan would join longtime efforts to protect the lake. Backed by state drinking-water laws, the city of Auburn has conducted watershed inspections around the lake for 20 years. Until zebra mussels showed up in the lake, the county used to require the hulls of boats be steam-cleaned before entering Owasco waters. ''It probably delayed their entry into our lake by three or four years,'' Hart said. But the zebra mussels got in nevertheless.
Fishing is good, recreation is good, the water is good.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.