| Priority Waterbodies List | |||||||
| Cayuga Lake and Watershed | |||||||
| Name | Resolution Potential |
Use Impairment(s) | Severity | Documentation | Type of Pollutant(s) | Source(s) of Pollutant(s) | County |
| Big Salmon Creek | Medium | Fishing* | Threatened | Some | Nutrients* | Agriculture* | Cayuga |
| Fish Propagation | Threatened | Some | Thermal Changes | Streambank Erosion | |||
| Fish Survival | Threatened | Some | Silt (Sediment) | Roadbank Erosion | |||
| Aesthetics | Stressed | Good | Water Level/Flow | ||||
| Boating | Stressed | Poor | Oxygen Demand | ||||
| Pathogens | |||||||
| Cayuga Lake (Cayuga County Portion) | Medium | Water Supply | Stressed | Good | Nutrients* | On-Site Septic* | Cayuga |
| Bathing | Stressed | Some | Silt (Sediment)* | Agriculture | |||
| Fishing | Impaired | Good | Roadbank Erosion | ||||
| Fish Propagation | Stressed | Good | Municipal | ||||
| Aesthetics | Impaired | Some | Urban Runoff | ||||
| Boating* | Impaired | Some | Acid Rain | ||||
| Streambank Erosion | |||||||
| Cayuga Lake (Seneca County Portion) | Medium | Water Supply | Stressed | Some | Nutrients* | On-Site Septic* | Seneca |
| Bathing | Impaired | Some | Oxygen Demand | Acid Rain | |||
| Fishing | Impaired | Some | Pesticides | Land Disposal | |||
| Fish Propagation | Stressed | Good | Silt (Sediment) | Industrial | |||
| Aesthetics | Impaired | Some | Agricultural | ||||
| Boating* | Impaired | Some | Streambank Erosion | ||||
| Municipal | |||||||
| Urban Runoff | |||||||
| Roadbank Erosion | |||||||
| Cayuga Lake (Tompkins County Portion) | Medium | Water Supply | Threatened | Some | Silt (Sediment)* | Streambank Erosion* | Tompkins |
| Bathing | Stressed | Good | Nutrients | Urban Runoff | |||
| Fish Propagation | Stressed | Some | Agriculture | ||||
| Aesthetics | Stressed | Some | Roadbank Erosion | ||||
| Construction | |||||||
| Little Salmon Creek | Medium | Fishing* | Threatened | Some | Nutrients* | Agriculture* | Cayuga |
| Fish Propagation | Threatened | Some | Thermal Changes | Streambank Erosion | |||
| Fish Survival | Threatened | Some | Silt (Sediment) | Roadbank Erosion | |||
| Aesthetics | Stressed | Good | Water Level/Flow | ||||
| Oxygen Demand | |||||||
| Pathogens | |||||||
| Yawger Creek | High | Fish Propagation* | Impaired | Good | Silt (Sediment)* | Agriculture* | Cayuga |
| Nutrients | Streambank Erosion | ||||||
| Bolter Brook Trib | Medium | Fish Propagation* | Threatened | Some | Silt (Sediment)* | Resource Extraction* | Schuyler |
| Fish Survival | Threatened | Some | Metals* | Land Disposal* | Seneca | ||
| Black Brook | High | Fishing* | Threatened | Some | Unknown Toxicity* | Land Disposal* | Seneca |
| Aesthetics | Stressed | Some | Nutrients | Agriculture | |||
| On-Site Septic | |||||||
| White Brook | High | Fishing* | Stressed | Poor | Nutrients* | Agriculture* | Seneca |
| Aesthetics | Stressed | Poor | Oxygen Demand | On-Site Septic | |||
| Cascadilla Creek | Low | Fish Propagation | Threatened | Some | Silt (Sediment)* | Streambank Erosion* | Tompkins |
| Aesthetics* | Stressed | Poor | Nutrients | Urban Runoff | |||
| Agriculture | |||||||
| Roadbank Erosion | |||||||
| Construction | |||||||
| Cayuga Inlet | High | Fish Propagation* | Stressed | Some | Silt (Sediment)* | Agriculture* | Tompkins |
| Unknown Toxicity | Land Disposal | ||||||
| Nutrients | Roadbank Erosion | ||||||
| Construction | |||||||
| On-Site Septic | |||||||
| Urban Runoff | |||||||
| Streambank Erosion | |||||||
| Fall Creek | High | Water Supply | Threatened | Some | Silt (Sediment)* | Streambank Erosion* | Tompkins |
| Bathing | Threatened | Poor | Pathogens | On-Site Septic | |||
| Fish Propagation* | Stressed | Some | Nutrients | Agriculture | |||
| Fish Survival | Stressed | Some | Thermal Changes | Roadbank Erosion | |||
| Construction | |||||||
| Six Mile Creek | High | Water Supply* | Stressed | Good | Silt (Sediment)* | Streambank Erosion* | Tompkins |
| Fish Propagation | Stressed | Some | Aesthetics | Private | |||
| Pesticides | Storm Sewers | ||||||
| Nutrients | Roadbank Erosion | ||||||
| Industrial | |||||||
| Agriculture | |||||||
| On-Site Septic | |||||||
| Municipal | |||||||
| Urban Runoff | |||||||
| Hydromodification | |||||||
| *Primary Use Impairment/Pollutant/Source | |||||||
| Source: NYSDEC, 1996 | |||||||