Park planned on a polluted creek
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper and the Niagara River Land Trust are taking on a risky project. The $850,000 plan announced Monday is to demolish a decrepit former car repair shop on a brownfield to...
View ArticleNo action from state on Scajaquada
In July, Cheektowaga officials submitted to state regulators their $50 million workplan to address sewer overflows, which continue to pollute the Scajaquada Creek. More than two months later, the...
View ArticleScajaquada and other pollution problems
Jim Heaney and Steve Brown discuss the painfully slow progress being made in cleaning up polluted creeks and streams throughout Western New York on the second weekly installment of “Outrages &...
View ArticleState, Cheektowaga agree on Scajaquada plan
Cheektowaga officials and the state have finally agreed on how the town will begin to address its sewer overflows. The problem is, it took seven years to end the dispute. Investigative Post reported...
View ArticleQuick Hit: Funding for Scajaquada cleanup
State funds to restore the badly polluted Scajaquada Creek are beginning to trickle in. Will federal funds follow? Read Dan Telvock’s “Quick Hit” in The Public. The post Quick Hit: Funding for...
View ArticleDan Telvock talks Scajaquada on WBFO
On WBFO’s Press Pass, Dan Telvock discusses his reporting on the badly polluted Scajaquada Creek and the efforts underway to restore it. The post Dan Telvock talks Scajaquada on WBFO appeared first on...
View ArticleCut to U.S. clean water funds could hurt WNY
The House and Senate budget proposal includes a large cut in clean water funding that could threaten dozens of sewer repair projects in Western New York. Senator Charles Schumer visited Buffalo on...
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A threat to Scajaquada Creek – and neighbors
It’s not the view from Virginia Golden’s front porch of the former General Motors plant that bothers her. It’s the toxic gunk – up to 110,000 gallons of it – that’s underneath the plant. Neighborhood...
View ArticleRemoving the muck from Scajaquada Creek
The ongoing restoration of Scajaquada Creek has reached one of the most-polluted sections in Delaware Park. For three years Investigative Post has reported on the creek’s disgusting condition. The...
View ArticleScajaquada project gets $600,000 boost
Crews are in the homestretch of a seven year project to restore the stretch of Scajaquada Creek that flows through Forest Lawn Cemetery. That work got a boost Tuesday with an announcement that the...
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