{"id":373398,"date":"2026-10-14T23:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373398\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T23:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:44:09","slug":"sea-lamprey-treatment-prompts-water-advisory-in-northern-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373398\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea lamprey treatment prompts water advisory in Northern New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PERU, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Crews will treat the Little Ausable River in Northern New York with lampricide on Thursday, which means people should not use the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/sea-lamprey-control-tentative-treatment-schedule-and-advisory-updates\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/sea-lamprey-control-tentative-treatment-schedule-and-advisory-updates\">The water-use advisory<\/a> for the river in the town of Peru starts Oct. 15 at 5 a.m. The treatment will last for 12-14 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State health officials said the water there should not be used for drinking, cooking, fishing, swimming, irrigation or watering livestock during the advisory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The affected areas are posted with yellow signs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Restrictions can last from 1-5 days and will be lifted when testing shows the chemical levels no longer exceed the state\u2019s safety threshold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The treatments are part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/project\/sea-lamprey-control-lake-champlain-basin\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/project\/sea-lamprey-control-lake-champlain-basin\">ongoing efforts to control sea lamprey in Lake Champlain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PERU, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Crews will treat the Little Ausable River in Northern New York with lampricide on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30894,137508,17713,137505,137506,137507,93,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,17712,1635,56,6947,18632,15453,46162,13372,6524,1631,1068],"class_list":["post-373398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-advisory","tag-ausable","tag-country","tag-lamprey","tag-lampricide","tag-little","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-north","tag-northern","tag-ny","tag-peru","tag-river","tag-sea","tag-treatment","tag-warning","tag-water","tag-wcax","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}