Campaign for Quiet Waters
The Adirondack Explorer needs your help in
its Campaign for Quiet Waters. Our goals, set forth below, are attainable
via the state planning process currently under way.
Please join us
Sign up by writing to CAMPAIGN,
36 Church St., Saranac Lake, NY 12983, via e-mail to adkexplr@adelphia.net,
or by calling toll-free 1-888-888-4970. We'll add your name to
our petition to Governor Pataki and also keep you posted about
where you can write or call for maximum effect. (Please include
your name and address if you contact us by e-mail.)
Motorized use of these waters would be limited
to electric motors only, with a 5 mph speed limit posted and enforced.
(Pre-existing landowners would be exempted.)
• The interconnected
ponds adjoining the St. Regis Canoe Area: Floodwood, Rollins,
Whey, Follensby Clear, Horseshoe, Polliwog, Little Polliwog, Little
Square, Middle, Cooperas, Rock, East Pine, West Pine-12 mi. total.
• South Inlet on Raquette Lake-2 mi.
• Eighth Lake in Fulton Chain-1.5
mi.
• Weller Pond and channel connecting
with Middle Saranac Lake-2 mi.
• Osgood River from Osgood Pond to
Meacham Lake-8.5 mi.
• Forked Lake on the Old Forge/Saranac
Lake canoe route-6 mi.
Motorized use of the following waters would
continue, but with a 5 mph speed limit posted and enforced.
• Raquette River
from Raquette Falls to Simon Pond-22 mi.
• Jessup River Arm of Indian Lake-8
mi.
• Dead Creek Flow on Cranberry Lake-3
mi.
• Marion River between Eckford Chain
and Raquette Lake-4 mi.
• Putnam Pond adjoining Pharoah Lake
Wilderness-2 mi.
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