Our History
Sacandaga Protection Committee (SPC)
The Sacandaga Protection Committee (SPC), composed of community leaders, lake users, permit holders and area property taxpayers, was formed in 2009 to develop strategies to protect the environmental, economic and legal interests of the entire lake.
After being faced with disastrous proposed changes by the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District (HRBRRD) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), area residents revolted and demonstrated they were a force to be reckoned with.
Those proposals would have made the Great Sacandaga Lake shoreline into a 129-mile public beach with no provision for law enforcement, litter, sanitation control or parking. They would have banned fireplaces, picnic tables and mowing, among other prohibitions. Your efforts helped put the proposal on the back burner - for now.
Devaluation of your real estate would have been catastrophic.
However, the DEC has made it clear that it still considers the shoreline forest preserve and that it will revisit this issue in the future.
