Residents around Lake George in upstate New York have expressed concerns for several years about algae and pollution of the lake. Some area towns enacted inspection programs for onsite wastewater systems, but now calls are coming for more and broader action.
Officials in Warren County, on the western shore of the lake, are debating a law to require inspection of onsite systems near area lakes and two rivers. System repairs or replacements would be required for failing systems.
A draft law has been in development for about two years by a task force of county officials including Claudia Braymer, a
