Editing Peach Lake, New York (section)

== Peach Lake water quality ==
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Working with the homeowner associations and cooperatives around the lake and with support from the Peach Lake Environmental Coalition, officials of the towns of Southeast and North Salem worked to improve water quality in the lake specifically targeting the reduction of phosphorus loading.  To improve the lake's water quality the following items were finished between 2012 and 2019:
* personnel from North Salem and Southeast worked with those in other government agencies to fund a $31,500,000 sewer project to provide sewers to homes around the lake. The distribution system and the sewer plant on the north end of Peach Lake was finished and all 484 homes and businesses hooked up by the spring of 2013.   
* In 2016 the North Salem officials secured a $815,000 grant from the NYS DEC, and the East of Hudson Watershed Corporation installed 8 Contech "Jellyfish" catch basins around the lake to remove additional phosphorus.  
* In the April of 2019, as part of the NYS HAB focus, Peach Lake became one of two lakes in the state to be part of a study using alum (aluminum sulfate) to lock the existing phosphorus into the sediment to further limit phosphorus loading in the lake.
* Continuing education of the residences is an ongoing project.