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and the importance of which has been remarked in the Genesee 

 report. 



Skaneateles outlet occupies a well deserved second place among 

 the worst cases, offering as it does the severest example of indus- 

 trial pollution. This stream was passed over rather briefly, having 

 been already intensively studied at an earlier date. 1 This 

 summer's work has indicated that conditions have grown worse 

 since the earlier investigation; heavier consumption of lake water 

 by Syracuse may be partly responsible. Where conditions were 

 at their worst the oxygen was reduced to seventeen per cent of 



Fig. 4 



T -— a 



Distance in Miles 



from Skaneateles Lake 



saturation, and below Jordan, about two miles from the confluence 

 of the stream with the canalized Seneca river, the oxygen had 

 recovered only to seventy-two per cent of saturation. (Fig. 4) 



1 Unpublished report of Emmeline Moore to Conservation Commission. 

 Nov. 28, 1921. 



