SARANAC LAKE — Alcohol intoxication contributed the drowning death of a Watervliet man whose body was found in Kiwassa Lake Sunday.

An autopsy of Keaven W. Green, 66, was performed Monday by Dr. C. Francis Varga at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake. It found he died of “asphyxia due to freshwater drowning due to acute alcohol intoxication,” according to state police Capt. Robert LaFountain.

Green was staying with friends at Cochran’s Cabins on Kiwassa Lake and was last seen Friday evening. The following morning, his friends noticed he was missing and called 911 after they found his kayak, paddle and life jacket floating in the water.

After a search that lasted a day-and-a-half, divers using side-scan sonar located Green’s body in 28 feet of water around 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. He was pronounced dead by Franklin County Coroner Ron Keough.

Keough said this morning that he has ruled the death accidental.