Cayuga Lake Watershed Network Stakeholders Survey
During the fall of 1998, a phone and written survey was conducted at the request of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and funded by FL-LOWPA, to determine what issues were of importance to a variety of stake holders in the Cayuga Lake watershed. The survey was undertaken, in order to discover priorities and concerns of the various constituencies and geographic areas within the watershed. Approximately 300 individuals, in a weighted sample answered questions from the perspective of the entity they were representing and then as individuals. The most relevant issues concerning the watershed as identified by watershed stakeholders in rank order were:
| Responding as Representatives 1) Water quality 2) Public Health Issues 3) Land Use and Development 4) Tourism 5) Preservation of Open Space 6) Invasive Plants and animals 7) Economic Development 8) Access to the lake 9) Lake water levels 10) Motorized recreational vehicles 11) Recreational activities |
Responding as Individuals 1) Water quality 2) Public Health Issues 3) Preservation of Open Space 4) Land use and development 5) Invasive plants and animals 6) Economic development 7) Tourism 8) Access to the lake 9) Lake water levels 10) Motorized recreational vehicles 11) Recreational activities |
CLW IO 2004