Syracuse.com - Honeywell plans to open up land on Nine Mile and Onondaga creeks for trout fishing next year

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Ken Lynch, regional director of Region 7 of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said it’s all part of the company’s continued efforts to comply with an agreement with the state to clean up Onondaga Lake and surrounding company-owned land.

Honeywell officials are meeting with local rod and gun club members and other outdoor enthusiasts lately seeking input on the company’s plans to provide access and parking for fishermen on company-owned property on Nine Mile and Onondaga creeks.

Ken Lynch, regional director of Region 7 of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said it’s all part of the company’s continued efforts to comply with an agreement with the state to clean up Onondaga Lake and surrounding company-owned land.

The two stretches of property – one, below the Amboy Dam on Nine Mile Creek off Airport Road; the other along Onondaga Creek off Tully Farms Road – should be open for trout fishing next spring.

Lynch added that as part of the multi-facted agreement, plans are still on track for Honeywell to build a new, two-bay boat launch for trailered boats and a separate launch site for car-top craft (canoes, kayaks) on the southern shore of Onondaga Lake off the Solvay exit on westbound Route 690. The land is owned by the state Department of Transportation and following its completion the boat launch would be turned over to the DEC to maintain.

Plans also call for 60 parking spaces and a handicapped fishing ramp stretching into the lake. The completion date, though, is still several years off, Lynch said.

It wouldn’t be built until after the company completes its dredging project in the lake, he said.

View the full article on The Syracuse Outdoors Blog