HLCL is governed by a Board of Directors which meets monthly.  The organization is managed by four HLCL Officers who oversee activities in various areas conducted by Standing Committees. We hold an annual meeting and conduct various fundraising and volunteer clean-up activities during each year.  Our direct dues paying membership is currently at 350 households and we continue to actively seek new members to help us accomplish our mission.  The vast majority of HLCL revenues are used to fund the Tudor Company clean-up on the lake year round.  We are also developing close associations with Boyle, Garrard, and Mercer county governments, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Service, Kentucky Utilities, Bluegrass PRIDE, Herrington Lake marina operators, and other local businesses that help us finance clean-up and educational activities.

The primary goal of the Herrington Lake Conservation League is to raise funding to keep a subcontracted work crew on the lake removing the manmade and natural debris from detracting from the safety and beauty of Herrington Lake. 

HLCL was started by a small group of concerned residents and boat owners in 2001. Between 2001 and today HLCL has raised over $600,000 and spent the vast majority of that funding to keep the subcontracted work crew out on the lake to gather and remove man made debris and dead wood from the lake.  In 2001 there was a huge backlog of junk--dead docks, wood, barrels, bottles, cans, tires, and even refrigerators and hot water heaters--that had accumulated over decades of apathy and neglect. The result of the intense clean up effort funded by the HLCL is a dramatic improvement in the Lake's appearance and safety, rising property values and significant growth in commercial activity and people using the lake. Unfortunately, the lake will not remain clean and safe unless we continue to raise funding to keep the independent work crew removing the debris and dead wood every year.