And the lake area is expected to keep growing, said Livonia town Supervisor Tim Wahl. Another 800 houses dot the surrounding area. Livingston County is in the middle of a multiyear plan to deal with some of the pressing environmental issues. It's a natural resource. It's a water supply source.
People have houses around there.
Honeoye is smack in the middle of it. But Conesus Lake also is ahead of many of those others because it's been studied over decades, Zorn said. The name ''Conesus'' comes from a Seneca word meaning the place where there are lots of berries, said Midge Dean-Stock, director of the Seneca Iroquois National Museum in Salamanca, Cattaraugus County. Seneca history in the Conesus Lake area stretches back to the mid-1500s. Before that, other Native Americans were in the area, at least as far back as 10,000 B.C., Dean-Stock said.