Darla Youngs Leaving OCCA Helm To Accept New Job In Binghamton SPRINGFIELD – Darla Youngs, veteran executive director of the OCCA, the Otsego County Conservation Association, is resigning in the next month to join Tier Information & Enterprise Resources in Binghamton. Jeff O’Handley, OCCA program director since July 2013, will serve as acting executive director, effective May 16. TIER is the non-profit arm of the Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board, which provides services to regional planning and economic-development agencies in…
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Canadarago Lake Improvement Association Named OCCA’s ‘Conservationists Of Year’ COOPERSTOWN – Citing their commitment to protection and preservation, the Otsego County Conservation Association today announced the Canadarago Lake Improvement Association has been named OCCA” Conservationists of the Year.”…
Otsego County’s Water ‘Excellent,’ SUNY Report For OCCA Concludes COOPERSTOWN – The OCCA released an analysis of 84 wells in the county at today’s Otsego Lake Festival, and the organization’s president, Vicky Lentz, was able to declare, “We have excellent water.” The findings, contained in a 35-page report, “Drinking Water Chemical Analyses for OCCA’s What’s In Our Water Campaign,” will be added to a database at the Catskill Headwaters Research Center at SUNY Oneonta. The 84 wells comprise “a huge…
OCCA Finds Drinking Water ‘Very Good’; Now Has Data To Identify Contamination COOPERSTOWN – The results of OCCA’s “What’s In Our Water?” program found, one, drinking water is “very good” locally and, two, there is now a “legally defensible baseline” of data that allows contamination to be detected. “We look at this as an insurance policy of sorts,” said OCCA President Vicky M. Lentz. “We knew we had an abundant supply of good, clean water here. The data now backs…
