ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The state Department of Environmental Conservation has completed its $13.7 million acquisition of two Finger Lakes that supply drinking water to the city of Rochester. State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis said Thursday that the acquisition was the most important land purchase the state has made outside the Adirondacks and Catskills in more than a generation. State...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The state Department of Environmental Conservation has completed its $13.7 million acquisition of two Finger Lakes that supply drinking water to the city of Rochester.
State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis said Thursday that the acquisition was the most important land purchase the state has made outside the Adirondacks and Catskills in more than a generation.
State officials delivered a check to Rochester’s City Hall for 3-mile long Canadice Lake and 7-mile-long Hemlock Lake. Half the money from the sale of the 6,832 acres of city-owned land surrounding the lakes will go toward a new marina at the Port of Rochester. The other half goes to moderate water-rate increases and fund water-related capital improvements.
The state has pledged to keep it forever wild.