Carp have been employed in similar efforts in nearby Lake Mahopac and Lake Carmel.

"It's not a comfortable decision," said Kathy Doherty, who has been handling the details in Lake Carmel's goose wars.

NY 311 begins at NY 52 in the Kent hamlet of Lake Carmel.

It heads northeast, crossing over the northernmost portion of Lake Carmel on a short causeway.

Through Lake Carmel, NY 52 proceeds south as the main thoroughfare.

Lake Carmel is located in the Town of Kent, New York, United States.

The major population center of the township is Lake Carmel, a settlement around an artificial lake of the same name developed in the 1920s.

Lake Carmel - A hamlet in the eastern part of the town.

About a third of the town's housing stock - more than 5,400 living units, according to 2000 census data - is in eastern Kent on the 200-acre Lake Carmel.

In Lake Carmel, which is a hamlet of Kent, the 60- and 70-year-old former summer cottages go for $200,000 to $425,000, Ms. Barrett said.