The Lower Scajaquada Creek

Empowering Communities Through Historical and Legal Analysis

New York Sea Grant

August 4, 2021

History and Background Information on the Scajaquada Creek

Angela Keppel, The Many Lives of the Scajaquada: grassy banks, navy yard, battleground, trash dump, highway, creek, Buffalo Streets (July 27, 2017), https://buffalostreets.com/2017/07/27/scajaquada/ .
Colin Dabkowski, Photo exhibition unearths buried history of Scajaquada Creek, The Buffalo News, (Jan. 16, 2014), https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/photo-exhibition-unearths-buried-history-of-scajaquada-creek/article_dd69891d-da4f-521d-9ffd-055fa2f3ff58.html .
Lauren Darcy, Walking along Scajaquada Creek, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, (Feb. 18, 2020), https://bnwaterkeeper.org/walking-along-scajaquada-creek/ .
Scajaquada Creek, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, https://bnwaterkeeper.org/places/scajaquada-creek/ .
Thomas Herrera-Mishler, Olmsted's Buffalo Park System and Its Stewards, PBS.
Ninuk Dwi Agustiningrum et al., Scajaquada Creek Uncovered: A Graduate Preservation Studio (2017), https://buffalo.app.box.com/s/d1pwjhv1imtmpypzk4mkitjgvx6n0yih .
Buffalo Sewer Authority, Rain Check 2.0 Opportunity Report, https://raincheckbuffalo.org/opportunityreport/ .
Kristin Szczepaniec, Indigenous People of Western New York, Partnership for the Public Good, https://ppgbuffalo.org/files/documents/data-demographics- .
How’s My Waterway?, US EPA, https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/hows-my-waterway .

Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, Can.-U.S., Apr. 15, 1972, 23 UST 301, Annex 1 (Amended in 1978, 1983, 1987, and 2012), https://binational.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1094_Canada-USA-GLWQA-_e.pdf .
What is GLWQA?, US EPA (2020), https://www.epa.gov/glwqa/what-glwqa .
Niagara River Remedial Action Plan 2012: https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/water_pdf/niagarastg2rap.pdf .
Niagara River Remedial Action Plan 1994: https://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/water_pdf/niagararap94.pdf .
Beneficial Use Impairments for the Great Lakes AOCs, US EPA (2020), https://www.epa.gov/great-lakes-aocs/beneficial-use-impairments-great-lakes-aocs .
The IJC and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, International Joint Commission (2020), https://www.ijc.org/en/what/glwqa-ijc .
Areas of Concern (Annex 1), Binational (2020), https://binational.net/annexes/a1/ .
Progress Report of the Parties (2019) (available at https://binational.net/2019/06/13/2019-prp-rep/ .
Niagara River AOC, US EPA (2020), https://www.epa.gov/great-lakes-aocs/niagara-river-aoc .

City of Buffalo, Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan (2019), https://docs.dos.ny.gov/opd-lwrp/LWRP/Buffalo_C/BuffaloLWRP.pdf .
Local Waterfront Revitalization Program Status, N.Y. Dep’t of State, https://www.dos.ny.gov/opd/programs/WFRevitalization/LWRP_status.html .
Local Waterfront Revitalization Program, N.Y. Dep’t of State, https://www.dos.ny.gov/opd/programs/WFRevitalization/LWRP.html .
Local Waterfront Revitalization Programs in the Coastal Area: Guidance Manual for Preparing Local Programs, N.Y. Dep’t of State (2019), https://www.dos.ny.gov/opd/programs/pdfs/LWRPPreparationGuidanceMarch2019.pdf