The announcement of a $42,000 DEC grant to the Chautauqua Lake Partnership was easy to miss earlier this year, coming as it did only a couple of days before a judge announced Freshwater Wetland Act regulations the CLP and Chautauqua Lake Property Owners Association had been fighting in state Supreme Court had been annulled.

But the grant, which is paying for a study by North Carolina State University researchers that has now begun, could end up having as big an impact on the lake as the temporary nullification of the Part 664 regulations.

Part of the study assesses the three main methods we deal........

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