Creating A Paradigm Shift, Putting the Buffalo River First - Jill Spisiak
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Creating A Paradigm Shift, Putting the Buffalo River First - Jill Spisiak
- 1. Local AOC Coordinator Perspective Jill Jedlicka, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
- 3. Space Shuttle Photo Courtesy of USEPA-GLNPO/NASA
- 5. "The Buffalo River is a repulsive holding basin for industrial and municipal wastes, it is devoid of oxygen and almost sterile..."
- 6. “ In places the river's surface is a boundless mosaic of color and patterns resulting from the mixture of organic dyes, steel mill and oil refinery wastes, raw sewage, and garbage." Statement by the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, United States Department of the Interior, 1968.
- 8. How do you make this…….turn into this? Photo courtesy of: Lower Lakes Marine Historical Society
- 9. The Value Aesthetic Commercial Cultural Ecological Economic Habitat Historical Marketing Quality of Life Recreational of a Waterway PARADIGM SHIFT…
- 10. “… repulsive holding basin?”
- 11. “… boundless mosaic of color?”
- 15. ..results in real action.
- 18. Promote the successes. Build community support.
- 23. QUESTIONS? Jill Jedlicka Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper 1250 Niagara Street Buffalo, NY 14213 716-852-7483 ext. 21 [email_address]
Notas do Editor
- The BAD NEWS: 7.1 mile slow flowing urban waterway that snakes its way through neighborhoods and former industrial brownfields in South Buffalo, New York. It drains a 440 square mile watershed that encompasses 25 municipalities and 3 counties. The mouth of the Buffalo River, at the confluence of Lake Erie and the Niagara River, served as the eastern most terminus for the Erie Canal, and was a major conduit for goods and migrants traveling between New York City and the Midwestern United States. Buffalo’s proximity to Niagara Falls and access to cheap hydropower, lake freighter access, and significant rail infrastructure all combined to make Buffalo one of the top ten economies in the world in the early 1900’s. Heavy industry, including chemical and dye manufacturing, grain milling, oil, petroleum, and coke processing and pesticides, all crowded the 13 miles of shoreline of the Buffalo River. By 1965 the River was declared dead by the US Department of Interior, had no oxygen, only supported minimal pollutant-tolerant aquatic or benthic life, and occasionally caught fire. What began as a 5 foot deep wetland throughout south Buffalo in the 1700s transformed into a 23 foot deep, dredged navigation channel with nearly 100% hardened shoreline by the mid 1900s. Much of the surrounding land of the Buffalo River AOC is zone for light-heavy manufacturing, existing industry or brownfield and vacant land. (See Figure 1.2).
- This was the legacy of the Buffalo River Photo is 1960 vintage Shown are the former Allied Signal facility and Republic steel complex Note the extensive oil sheens in the river from discharges from the facilities and the railroad yard It was this type of disregard for the environment that has left us to deal with the contamination problems we face today. DEC got involved because BNRK needed matching funds to implement a Feasibility Study on the Buffalo River being proposed by the ACoEs The ACoE estimated the cost of the sampling work at $718,000 of a $2.1 million study Program match was 50/50. The BNRK would come up with the remaining match using $ and in kind services.
- JILL: By now the river had become so altered that it no longer resembled a natural system and pretty much became a component of the production process. In January of 1968, the Buffalo River had reached rock bottom of environmental degradation and caught fire. But unlike Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River, which made the national news when it burst into flame, the burning Buffalo River rated only a small spot on a back page of the local newspaper. There was some recreational usage of the river at that time, as local youths in south Buffalo would periodically try to set the river on fire- kind of a 1960’s version of passive recreation. At this point, the Buffalo River was one of the most seriously polluted rivers in America.
- The GOOD NEWS: “clean slate”: