"LAKE TRUMP" SOON MAY BE A FINGER LAKES REALITY

Originally posted April 1st 2016. (April Fools)

The 12th Finger Lake Could be Just Weeks Away

With Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign in full gear, some have questioned whether he truly wants to be President of the United States, or if he is simply using the campaign to draw attention to his business empire.  Whatever his Presidential aspirations, a growing body of evidence points to the Trump business machine being in high gear – and to Trump being the driving force behind a massive new Finger Lakes Development that soon may bring a 12th Finger Lake to the region.

Stealth Land Acquisitions and Shell Corporations

Sources from local government agencies tell FingerLakes.com that over the past 18 months, over 231 individual parcels of land within 9 townships have been purchased at the north end of Cayuga Lake between Auburn and Waterloo using difficult to track shell corporations. Officials first chalked the sales up to the growing real estate market and interest from wine industry investors looking for prime terroir for future vineyards.  But a chance discussion among officials from Seneca Falls, Waterloo and Auburn about recent land sales sparked research that showed that not only were many of the same corporations buying land in different towns, but that when placed on a map – the land sales created an 21 mile long contiguous tract of land.

Our source tells us: “Whoever did this was trying to hide their tracks – and they were good. They never used the same corporation to buy land twice in the same township, and they never bought contiguous parcels within 3 months of each other. To nearly everyone it simply seemed like a hot real estate market.”

A Drone Uncovers the Plan

On March 23rd, local resident and activist April P. Hurst took her drone to the area in question to take videos. What she saw shocked her – on plot after plot, bulldozers and backhoes were furiously digging huge ponds – often several acres in size. And these ponds were separated from each other by only a few yards of dirt.

Omarosa ZaBee, Senior Director of Watershed Research at Cornell viewed the video and has a theory: “The fact that these huge ponds are so close to each other – often less than 5 feet apart, means that whoever is building them wants the walls between them to collapse, thereby creating larger and larger bodies of water.   And according to ZaBee, it is all legal “holding ponds up to 5 acres are perfectly legal without a permit. And there is no regulation regarding ponds on contiguous plots flooding and becoming larger bodies of water.One good spring rain and this entire thing will be one giant lake”.

According to ZaBee, the eventual result of these ponds merging together will be a massive lake 21 miles long and nearly ½ a mile wide – coming within 100 yards of the north end of Cayuga Lake. And some have noted, forming the shape of a “T” above Cayuga Lake. 

With current zoning regulations, this new lake could house over 17,000 new homes.

Below: Estimated coverage of Lake Trump