#scajaquada

[whatsnewbuffalo]

Cheers greet Cuomo on goal of reviving Humboldt Parkway area

Governor Cuomo came to the Buffalo Museum of Science to announce local spending by the state for the 2016 - 2017 budget. His biggest announcement was a $6M study to cap a portion of the Kensington Expressway, the highway that severed the East Side from downtown and is the primary cause for its dubious economic decline. Urbanists have been calling for this and other highway improvements for some time now.

The project would partially restore a parkway designed by Olmsted, yet the cost of the project could turn out to be as much as $500M. However, if this is successful it could create a $1B economic impact on Buffalo in a neighborhood that is struggling with poverty. In addition, the state is funding a downgrade of the Scajaquada Expressway into a boulevard which will make Delaware Park more unified again. In Niagara Falls the governor is removing a stretch of the Niagara Expressway and investing $4.5M into Niagara Falls State Park further improving the attractiveness on the American side.

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Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper presses for Scajaquada Creek Cleanup

For over a year Dan Telvoc of Investigative Post has reported in depth on the contamination of the Scajaquada Creek which has begun to rally the community behind cleaning Buffalo’s most abused waterway. This has prompted Cheektowaga to renew discussions with the state as well as begin creating solutions with Buffalo. Last week Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper held a meeting with a plan about effectively cleaning up the 15-mile long creek.

Jill Jedlicka of Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper helped secure the funding necessary for the cleanup of the Buffalo River, widely cited as a successful environmental cleanup on one of the nations most polluted rivers. Now a detailed attack plan for the Scajaquada Creek is about to be implemented. Using a multi-tiered approach from Lancaster to Buffalo the overall health of the creek will improve at a faster rate even if all of the solutions are not in place yet.

Jedlicka has pointed out that there is a potential $3M of federal funding for dredging and that more soon may become available now that the federal government has identified the creek as an “area of concern.” Designs for a graduated “benching” system  by the Army Corps of engineers are being developed. The above map features what governments and residents can do to help protect the creek from Cheektowaga to Buffalo including culverts, natural buffers, and minimizing the spillage of the combined sewage overflows.

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1660 Niagara Street will be Site of New Waterfront Park

Black Rock and Niagara Street will have a new connect to the Buffalo waterfront on the Scajaquada Creek, the smaller of the two main creeks that run through Buffalo. The project, led by Riverkeeper and the Buffalo Niagara Land Trust, will be an integral piece to providing waterfront access all along the Niagara frontier. The opportunity is unique for Black Rock as the neighborhood was completely severed from the waterfront, particularly the Niagara River, the connection to which made Black Rock the only neighborhood that ever challenged Buffalo to be the center of the city.

Despite the good news of finally opening the Scajaquada back up to the public and Black Rock having a sliver of waterfront access in their community again for the first time in decades the challenges are just beginning. The Scajaquada Creek has been capped with concrete and used shamelessly as a sewage and waste dump despite flowing through Buffalo’s most premiere park and cemetery and into the Niagara River. Thanks to prodding by the Investigative Post promises have been made to start cleaning up the Scajaquada River but this initiative in Black Rock will be a true start to the cleanup in which municipalities are only talking about right now.

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Leaders Vow Action to Clean Scajaquada Creek

Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, the Buffalo Sewer Authority, and the Army Corp of Engineers are three organizations that are making initial headway on cleaning up the polluted Scajaquada Creek by finally dredging the Scajaquada Creek between Forest Lawn and Delaware Park, a mandate that has been ignored for over two decades. The Olmsted Parks Conservancy and the city are going to clean the area around the “trash rack” in Delaware Park.

Yet, better improvements are still in the distant future but are in the works. Cheektowaga has agreed to a $12 million improvement to help increase efficiency in one of the neighborhoods where sewer overflows are the greatest. The Buffalo Sewer Authority is currently beginning a 20 year, $380 million overhaul of the outdated combined overflow sewer system. While a quarter of the money is going to help with minimizing pollution in the Scajaquada the most significant improvements are over a decade away.

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The Scajaquada Initiative: Public Access to a Healthy Urban Waterway

Riverkeeper Monthly Forums is free and open to the public and the next event will be held on Saturday, April 18th from 12PM - 4PM at the Polish Cadets of Buffalo. This time will focus on Riverkeeper’s Scajaquada Initiative which will focus on the reduction of sewage overflows into the creek and increase public access to the waterway. Sign up on the site to join the 1.65 mile walking tour.

The Scajaquada has continued to be neglected despite the multimillion dollar cleanup of the Buffalo River. Riverkeeper has begun a green infrastructure pilot project in an attempt to restore the creek as a public waterway rather than a sewage drain. Recently, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper has been named a finalist for the prestigious North American Riverprize for “outstanding and visionary” water restoration and protection.  

[c4ps3p]

scajaquada replied to your photo: “ask my cat anything”:

why u sneak outside then cry to come back in but then dont come in

I live in an apartment rn so Im not allowed outside but generally its just a test to make sure you're listening

[relenawarcraft]

scajaquada replied to your post: “five things needed to summon me: gunpla Japanese curry a big fluffy...”:

can i substitute 1 thumper

is thumper a fluffy dog?

then yes

[gundampilotssmokingweed]

more specifically how does kais blazing echnique change from piss teen boy kai to news man kai

ON SIDE 7 KAI AND HAYATO SMOKED WHATEVER THEY OULD LAY HANDS ON BECAUSE THEY WERE PUNK TEENS BUT KAI THEN LEARNED HOW TO BE COOL FROM SAYLA AND HE ROLLS TIDY JOINTS FROM EVEN THE WORST PAPER BUT HE PROBABLY LIKES SMOKING BLUNTS BEST OF ALL

KAI’S SECRET IS THAT HE CAN SCORE WEED ANYWHERE THERE ARE MORE THAN THREE PEOPLE GATHERED ITS LIKE SOME UNIVERSAL LAW AND BY LALAH HE CAN FIGURE OUT A WAY TO SMOKE THAT WEED