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Cayuga Island has limited contamination
8+ hour, 31+ min ago (171+ words) Recent reporting about contamination concerns on Cayuga Island has sparked important public conversation. Contaminants have been identified in fill materials in portions of the island, and residents and the public deserve a thorough understanding of what contaminants are present and…...
Letter: County must do better on sewers
2+ week, 6+ day ago (117+ words) I struggle to understand how any parent, whether they voted for Trump or not, explains this man to their children. Buffalo has its moment to call Lake Erie their own. Let's not, yet again, choose developers over people. Now the…...
The lighter side of The News: Sewer Authority looking for a new mascot
3+ week, 3+ day ago (117+ words) Rosie Nogle, principal sanitary engineer at Buffalo Sewer Authority, discusses the three phases of projects to improve the Bird Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. What kid doesn't love a good sewer-dwelling superhero? Deidre Williams has been with The Buffalo News since…...
Floating ramp
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (160+ words) Buffalo News Javascript is required to use this website. The canoe and kayak launch in Mutual Riverfront Park, one of seven such sites on the Buffalo River that create the Buffalo Blueway, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. The Buffalo Blueway is a network…...
'Blueway' in Buffalo River an invitation to start using formerly 'dead' waterway
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (195+ words) The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is embarking on a $14. 2 million project to create a wetland habitat by putting about 285, 000 cubic yards of sediment dredged from the Buffalo River into the seven-acre slip along Lake Erie's shoreline. Environment and climate reporter…...
$443, 000 in federal funds to help monitor Lake Erie water quality
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (147+ words) Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper's executive director, Jill Jedlicka explains the partnerships and planning that went into its current plan to strengthen the Lake Erie shoreline against extreme events. The Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper announced a $443, 000 grant from the federal government on Monday…...
$29 million project coming to West Side to improve water quality
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (389+ words) Rosaleen Nogle, the principal sanitary engineer for the Buffalo Sewer Authority, talks about the upcoming project to diver the Breckenridge Street sewer into the Scajaquada Tunnel 60 feet below Lafayette Avenue at West Avenue. As the snow melted and the region…...
Great Lakes Cheese required to pay fine for water, air violations
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (1027+ words) Data from the EPA shows Great Lakes Cheese had been exceeding their permitted chemical discharge level for months leading up the the Ischua Creek fish die-off. Great Lakes Cheese has agreed to pay a fine and other fees that will…...
DEC says Great Lakes Cheese should pay to restore Ischua Creek after massive fish kill
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (443+ words) The state Department of Environmental Conservation will be asking Great Lakes Cheese to pay for the damage it caused to Ischua Creek with discharges from a manufacturing plant in Franklinville that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of…...
Cheese manufacturer polluted water for months before Ischua Creek die-off
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (1448+ words) It has been nearly a month since the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation began investigating wastewater discharge from Great Lakes Cheese that likely killed tens of thousands of fish and countless other aquatic species in Ischua Creek. In…...