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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 05:43:56 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Stretch of Buffalo River (New York) shoreline brought back to life
 
Stretch of Buffalo River shoreline brought back to life

By Mark Sommer
Buffalo News (NY)
August 26, 2013

Basswoods, sycamores, willows and shrubs were among the initial 2,000 native and naturalized plants installed as part of the shoreline restoration of a former steel manufacturing brownfield along the Buffalo River in South Buffalo.

The project, part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, received nearly $1 million granted to Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Forest Service to rehabilitate an area where Donner Hanna Coke and Republic Steel once operated.

“In 1967, the federal government declared this river dead. But today you can see this river is very much alive, and it is thriving,” Jill Jedlicka, Riverkeeper’s executive director, said during a news conference at the site Monday. “We are starting a new chapter in the history of the Buffalo River.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/environment/stretch-of-buffalo-river-shoreline-brought-back-to-life-20130826

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
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