Water Resources Planning and Projects

WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS AND PROGRAM SUMMARIES

Oneida County Water Resources Strategy

A comprehensive plan which: identifies water resource priorities within the county; lists federal, state, and private sources of potential funding programs; and, identifies key contacts and agencies within the water resources field.

Ground-water Monitoring Program

Beginning in 2001, Oneida and Herkimer Counties undertook a joint groundwater monitoring program because it was recognized that the existing ground-water monitoring network that served both counties was insufficient to effectively evaluate and monitor drought conditions.

According to the US Geological Service, the hydrogeologic characteristics in the region include a system of hydrologically isolated unconsolidated and bedrock aquifers. One monitoring point in the extreme north-east corner of Oneida County was not sufficient to characterize groundwater resources throughout the region. Additional monitoring points were identified and are monitored regularly to provide a more accurate understanding of how the aquifers react to different conditions. Additional information is provided in the links below.

Local Wellhead Protection Studies

A study of twenty-one individual community water systems which rely exclusively on ground water as a source of supply. Provides an in-depth inventory of resources and potential threats, defines multiple wellhead protection areas, and provides recommendations on wellhead protection alternatives.

Local Groundwater and Wellhead Protection Implementation Program

A report summarizing assistance to seven communities in developing and implementing specific wellhead and/or ground water protection regulations based on recommendations and information contained in the "Local Wellhead Protection Study."

Oneida Lake Watershed Management Project

The Regional Planning Program has assisted the Central New York Regional Planning Board in many aspects of the Oneida Lake Watershed Management planning project. The key elements of the project include the development of a State of the Basin Report and a Lake and Watershed Management Plan.

HOCCPP has served on many of the sub-committees that have been formed over the duration of the project. Extensive technical assistance has been provided with regard to the development of the plan framework, draft by-laws, and formation of the Oneida Lake Watershed Advisory Council.

HOCCPP was also responsible for the creation of numerous GIS data layers and mapping relating to the analysis of land use within the watershed, natural resources within the basin, and socio-economic characteristics. Sample mapping and additional links are provided below.

Sauquoit Creek Basin Watershed Management Program

A six volume report that provides a holistic, intermunicipal and basin wide approach to water resources management and incorporates all water resource issues, discusses the issues' interrelationships, and identifies common solutions. As part of the activity, a basin coordinating committee was formed to develop a water resources management strategy for the basin. The strategy details future needs and outlines funding-ready projects.
Related article: Outlook Newsletter, Summer 2002, Vol. 20, No. 2, Pg. 5 - "The Sauquoit Creek Basin"

Baseline Funding Program

A cooperative program with the NYS DEC which allows HOCCPP to maintain dedicated staff within the water resources program and to provide for active involvement in miscellaneous water resources planning and implementation activities emanating from the state, regional, county and/or local levels. The program maximizes opportunities and flexibility to respond to water resource needs as they arise.

Comprehensive Water Management Study for Herkimer and Oneida Counties

A series of four composite maps of "constraints" and "inventory" information for the two counties which includes water resources and other natural resources information such as, but not limited to: wastewater discharge points; public water supply intakes; water treatment facilities; water lines and districts; water quality monitoring stations; gauging stations; major and minor drainage basin boundaries; floodplains; steep slopes; agricultural districts; classified streams; etc.

Rural Water Supply Study

Provides an investigation of the three major public water supplies and over thirty smaller water systems in the two county area to appraise these water resources and determine how they should be developed to provide for future needs. The report (and subsequent updates) include a description of basic features of each system with estimates of capital and annual costs, and also, suggests methods of organizing and financing major facilities.

Groundwater Availability in the Mohawk River Basin and Southern Herkimer County

Cooperative effort with both the US Geological Survey and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to develop a series of three plates depicting the availability of ground water from unconsolidated deposits within the Mohawk River Basin. The information includes: location and yeild of wells; surficial geology; and the estmated potential well yields.

Flood Mitigation

For additional information regarding any of these programs, please contact the
Herkimer-Oneida Counties Comprehensive Planning Program staff
at planning@co.oneida.ny.us or (315) 798-5710.

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Updated October 15, 2003