EXTRA-79491 - USA (Goshen, New York) - lake management services - Deadline December 10,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide lake management services to the government authority located in Goshen, NY. – Provide lake and watershed assessment, water quality monitoring, and lake management planning services.– The purpose of this project is to generate an actionable scientific understanding of lake and watershed conditions and provide decision–support tools.– These strategies shall address nutrient and bacterial inputs, water quality degradation, aquaticvegetation management and long–term lake restoration and protection.– Develop an efficient, scientifically defensible monitoring program to characterize in–lake water quality, watershed inputs and ecological responses to management actions.• Develop a lake and watershed monitoring framework that addresses spatial and seasonal variability in nutrients, bacteria, and other relevant water quality parameters.• Identify appropriate monitoring locations, sampling frequencies, analytical parameters, field procedures, and data management practices.• Establish procedures for integrating historical data, new sampling results, and volunteer–collected data. • Evaluate whether streamflow monitoring infrastructure is necessary to estimate watershed nutrient and bacterial loads. Where warranted, recommend and establish an appropriate monitoring approach, subject to agency approval.• Conduct annual aquatic plant surveys to document vegetation distribution, invasive species, post–herbicide conditions where applicable, and changes in aquatic plant communities.• Identify appropriate methods for evaluating changes in lake conditions and management effectiveness over time.(2) All the questions must be submitted no later than November 25, 2026.