By
Susan Arbetter
City of Albany
PUBLISHED 6:20 PM ET Jun. 03, 2021
PUBLISHED 6:20 PM EDT Jun. 03, 2021
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There is no mandatory septic system inspection or any state testing or monitoring for the 6,000 septic systems along the Lake George basin.
While Lake George, known as the “Queen of American Lakes,” is still quite healthy, last fall the community got a taste of the problems that could plague the lake — and its tourism economy — if action isn’t taken immediately.
“We had our first reported Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) at Lake George last fall,” Eric Siy, executive director of the FUND for Lake George, told