The price of lake living
Great Sacandaga Lake has gone quiet for the season, with many of the roughly 4,500 lakeside camps and nearby cottages now shuttered.
For much of the fall it appeared to property owners that lake life could get more expensive in the seasons ahead. State lawmakers seeking to broaden the base of beneficiaries paying for upkeep on the reservoir’s dam had reignited a debate by sending Gov. Andrew Cuomo a bill mandating a fresh look at revenue sources.
Cuomo vetoed the bill in December, without saying whether lakeside owners who benefit from a dam first built in 1930 to control floods should do more to help downstream interests keep it up.
The funding issue remains before the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District’s board.
“Everything is status quo,” board chairman Mark Finkle said. “It was something we were
