Water Chestnut hand-pull is on for tomorrow morning – Saturday, 6/28 @ 10:00am.
Invasive water chestnuts are once again emerging in many shallow areas of the lake. While our harvester can remove water chestnuts in water greater than 3-feet deep, hand-harvesting is the only way to remove water chestnuts in shallow water. Therefore, two (2) water chestnut hand-harvesting events are scheduled for this summer:
- Saturday, June 28, 10:00am to noon.
- Saturday, July 12, 10:00am to noon
Please meet at the north end of the lake with any vessel that can navigate shallow water (kayak, canoe, raft, paddle board, john boat, etc.). Please bring your work gloves and perhaps a small rake if you have one. We will be collecting water chestnuts by hand and transferring them to the Eco-Harvester for disposal. Some light refreshments will be available.If the weather forecast calls for heavy rain or thunderstorms, each event will take place on the Sunday following the scheduled event, June 29 or July 13. Please check back here or our Facebook page on the Friday before each event for any weather postponements.
Five (5) acres of Kinderhook Lake will be treated with ProcellaCor
for the control of Eurasian milfoil on
Monday, September 9, 2024, at around 4:00 PM.
Approximate areas to be treated are shaded on the map.
Please note that no swimming or boating is permitted in the treatment areas during treatment.
Do not use water from treated areas for irrigation or livestock watering for 24 hours after treatment.
Signage will be posted around the lake in accordance with our DEC permit.
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To continue our battle against aquatic invasive species, the WATER CHESTNUT HAND-PULLING EVENT has been rescheduled to SATURDAY, JULY 13, 9am – 11am. We need two dozen volunteers for this event to be successful.
Please meet at the north end of the lake at 9am with your kayak, canoe, rowboat, raft, or any vessel that can navigate shallow water. Gloves and perhaps a rake would be helpful, but are not required. If you can help, you are welcome to park at the launch Saturday morning without a membership sticker.
We will be concentrating our efforts on the north-western shoreline between the water slide and the north bay. A few volunteers may be dispersed to a different area where new water chestnut growth has been identified. Pulled weeds will be transferred to the Eco-Harvester and brought to shore for disposal. Light refreshments will be available.
Thanks in advance for helping to reduce the spread of aquatic invasive species.
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WATER CHESTNUT HANDPULL POSTPONED TO
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 9am-11am
To help reduce the spread of this aquatic invasive species, a water chestnut hand-pulling event is planned for Saturday, June 29, 9:00 am – 11:00 am SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 9am-11am. We need two dozen volunteers for this event to be successful. Please meet at the north end of the lake with your kayak, canoe, rowboat, raft, or any vessel that can navigate very shallow water. Gloves and perhaps a rake would be helpful, but are not required. A few teams of volunteers may be dispersed to various coves/shorelines around the lake where new water chestnut growth has been identified. Pulled weeds will be transferred to the Eco-Harvester and brought to shore for disposal. In the event of pouring rain or lightning, the ‘pull’ will take place at the same time on Sunday, June 30. Some light refreshments may be available. Please come and be part of the solution.
As in past years, some water chestnuts will be pulled with the Eco-Harvester prior to this event. However, due to the risk of damage to the harvester drum, it cannot be operated in the very shallow water where many of the water chestnuts are growing.
Please note that a second water chestnut hand-pulling event may be needed on Saturday, July 13, 9am to 11am, depending on the success of the June 29 event. Stay tuned and check back here or on Facebook for any potential changes.
While our EcoHarvester is doing a great job attacking the dense areas of water chestnuts at the north end of the lake (per our DEC permit), it cannot grab the multitude of smaller patches and single plants growing along the shorelines all around the lake. Therefore, WE NEED YOUR HELP.
If you have a canoe, kayak, paddleboard, or small fishing boat that can access shallow areas, or whether you live on or off the lake, please cruise around the shorelines and grab as many water chestnut plants as possible. It’s quite easy to spot the leaves on the surface of the water (see photo).
Reach down as far as you can and try to pull the plants with the roots; no problem if the stem breaks. Bring gloves and trash bags to collect the plants. You can let the pulled plants dry on your lawn and either burn them, toss them in the trash, or use them as mulch in your garden. If you do this by mid-July, you will have likely removed the plants before the barbed seed nutlets form. Removal will help prevent propagation of new invasive water chestnuts. Each single plant removed can prevent hundreds of new water chestnut plants from growing in the future.
This link (https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_forests_pdf/aiswatercfs.pdf ) may be of interest if you want to know more about invasive water chestnuts. Thank you for helping to battle aquatic invasive species in Kinderhook Lake.
The Weed Management Committee
Kinderhook Lake Corporation
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The KLC has submitted a permit application to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to treat up to five acres of Eurasian milfoil with ProcellaCor in June 2023. This is the same herbicide that 
was used to treat and eradicate over 200 acres of milfoil in 2021. This is a preventative measure to eradicate a few small patches of milfoil identified last summer before they spread and turn into larger weed beds that could interfere with boating and other recreational activities. The cost of the treatment will be covered by your donations to the Weed Management Fund. As required by DEC, ProcellaCor product labels must be posted on our website; see the sidebar Quick Links. Additional information about this summer’s treatment will be posted here later in the spring.
It is a fact that decomposing leaves produce phosphorus and nitrogen (as well as other minerals). It is a fact that phosphorous and nitrogen are major contributors to excessive aquatic weed growth. Google it! Please, DO NOT DO THIS.
Due to this year’s ProcellaCor treatment that appears to have eradicated most of the Eurasian milfoil in the lake, the EcoHarvester was only used to harvest water chestnuts. Since most of the water chestnuts reside in shallower water at the north end of the lake, the harvester was easily able to pull them out with their roots well before the nutlets had a chance to grow. About 1 acre of water chestnuts was harvested on July 7th in accordance with our DEC permit.
**WARNING**
Kinderhook Lake will be treated with ProcellaCor,
an aquatic herbicide used for the control of Eurasian milfoil
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
NO SWIMMING or BOATING
is permitted on the day of the treatment
NO IRRIGATION or LIVESTOCK WATERING
is permitted until herbicide concentrations are tested below 1ppb,
expected approximately 7 days after the treatment
Treatment notifications will be posted 24 hours prior to the treatment date
and removed when concentration levels are acceptable for irrigation,
expected approximately 7 days following the treatment date
Note: ProcellaCor will be applied by an airboat with weighted sub-surface drag-lines
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