Syracuse.com - Duck hunting on Onondaga Lake will continue this winter as Honeywell dredging project takes a break during cold months.

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The dredging project is expected to last four years. Once finished, Honeywell has committed to building a new, two-bay boat launch for trailored boats and a separate launch site for car-top craft (canoes, kayaks) at the location.

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<p>With all the dredging that’s been going on this year at Onondaga Lake, will local duck hunters be able to use the unofficial boat launch at Solvay near the state Fairgrounds for the late waterfowl hunting season beginning later this month?</p>

<p>Everything should be just ducky for the waterfowl hunters on the lake, said state Department of Environmental Conservation and Honeywell officials this week.</p>

<p>DEC spokeswoman Stephanie Harrington and Victoria Streitfeld, of Honeywell, both said the lake dredging and capping operation has concluded for the season and there will be no Honeywell activity in the lake, or at area that includes the boat launch this winter. The land is owned by the state Department of Transportation.</p>

<p>“Honeywell is removing the silt curtains and buoys for winter storage,” Harrington said.</p>

<p>Harrington added areas where hunters have frequented in the past will be all be open.</p>

<p>“Normal waterfowl regulations apply,” she said.</p>

<p>Ron Falkowski, president of C.N.Y. Waterfowlers, was down at the Solvay launch area this week, checking things out. He said he talked to Honeywell officials and was assured they’ll “do nothing to keep us from launching our boats, such as stockpiling material.”</p>

<p>He said the parking situation isn’t the best, but it’ll work.</p>

<p>“It’s not impossible, we’ve had it a lot worse,” he said. “As long as everyone parks their boat trailers properly and uses a little common sense and courtesy so the next person has access.”</p>

<p>The dredging project is expected to last four years. Once finished, Honeywell has committed to building a new, two-bay boat launch for trailored boats and a separate launch site for car-top craft (canoes, kayaks) at the location. It will be turned over to the state Department of Environmental Conservation to run.</p>

<p>Plans also call for 60 parking spaces and a handicapped fishing ramp stretching into the lake.</p>

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