ML070160391

JAFNPP - SEIS Web Reference - Great Lakes: Lake Ontario

ML070160391
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Issue date:	01/16/2007
From:	FitzPatrick, Environmental Protection Agency
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About LakeWide Management Plans the Lakes Lake Ontario Policies and Strategies Physical and Environmental Progress Updates Monitoring and Indicators Features of the Lake 2006 Biennial Report Ontario Basin Lake Ontario LaMP Update 2005 Ecosystems Lake Ontario LaMP Update 2004 2004 Biennial Report Toxics Reduction LaMP Update 2003

& Pollution Prevention Lake Ontario LaMP 2002 Biennial Report Biennial Report Highlights April 2002 Funding LaMP Update 2001 LaMP Update 2000 Great Lakes Lake Ontario is the last of the chain of Great Lakes that LaMP Update 1999 Partners straddle the Canada/United Lake Ontario Lakewide Management Plan States border. Its shoreline is Lake Ontario Stage 1 LaMP bordered by the Province of Problem definition - Final June 1, 1998 Ontario on the Canadian side Executive Summary and New York State on the U.S.

Lake Ontario AOCs side. Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes, with a EighteenMile Creek, New York surface area of 18,960 km2 Niagara River, New York (7,340 square miles), but it has Niagara River Toxics Management Plan the highest ratio of watershed area to lake surface area. It is Oswego River/Harbor, New York relatively deep, with an average Rochester Embayment, New York depth of 86 meters (283 feet) St. Lawrence River at Massena, New York and a maximum depth of 244 Other reports meters (802 feet), second only to Lake Superior. Approximately 80 Lake Ontario Lower Aquatic Foodweb Study percent of the water flowing into Archives Lake Ontario comes from Lake Report of The Niagara River Toxics Committee Erie through the Niagara River. October 1984 The remaining flow comes from For Further information contact:

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Great Lakes: Lake Ontario (14%) and precipitation (7%). Conrad de Barros About 93 percent of the water in Ontario Ministry Lake Ontario flows out to the St. of the Environment and Energy Lawrence River; the remaining 7 (613) 549-4000 ext 2622 percent leaves through Barbara Belasco evaporation. Since Lake Ontario United States is the downstream Great Lake, it Environmental Protection Agency is impacted by human activities (212) 637-3848 occurring throughout the Lake Rimi Kalinauskas Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Environment Canada Erie basins.

(416) 739-5836 Robert Townsend Ecosystem Goals for New York State Lake Ontario Department of Environmental Conservation (518) 402-8284

1. The Lake Ontario Ecosystem should be maintained and as necessary restored or enhanced to support self-reproducing diverse biological communities.

2. The presence of contaminants shall not limit the uses of fish, wildlife, and waters of the Lake Ontario basin by humans and shall not cause adverse health effects in plants and animals.

3. We as a society shall recognize our capacity to cause great changes in the ecosystem and we shall conduct our activities with responsible stewardship for the Lake Ontario basin.

Objectives Aquatic Communities (benthic and pelagic): the waters of Lake Ontario shall support diverse and healthy reproducing and self-sustaining communities in dynamic equilibrium, with an emphasis on native species.

Wildlife: the perpetuation of a healthy, diverse, and self-sustaining wildlife community that utilizes the lake for habitat and/or food shall be ensured by attaining and sustaining the waters, coastal wetlands, and upland habitats of the Lake Ontario basin in sufficient quality and quantity.

Human Health: the waters, plants, and animals of Lake Ontario shall be free from contaminants and organisms resulting from human activities at levels that affect human health or aesthetic factors such as tainting, odor, and turbidity.

Habitat: Lake Ontario offshore and nearshore zones and surrounding tributary, wetland, and upland habitats shall be of sufficient quality and quantity to support ecosystem objectives for the health, productivity, and distribution of plants and animals in and adjacent to Lake Ontario.

Stewardship: Human activities and decisions shall embrace environ-mental ethics and a commitment to responsible stewardship.

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