Technical Documents

Documents Pertaining to the Buffalo River Watershed (alphabetical by title)

These documents have been used in the past or are currently being used to assess the conditions/progress of the watershed. Additional documents may be available upon request to BNR. Documents marked with an * are very large and may take some time to download to your computer.

**New Document Posted 11-18-11: February 21, 2011. Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan.

Great Lakes Laboratory. 1979. A Survey of the Crustacean Zooplankton of the Buffalo River. Great Lakes Laboratory Special Report 20. *

Irvine, K.N., Stein, G.P., and Singer, J.K. 1990. An Environmental Guidebook to the Buffalo River. *

Jaffe, R. and Hites, R.A. 1986. Anthropogenic, Polyhalogenated, Organic Compounds in Non-Migratory Fish from the Niagara River Area and Tributaries to Lake Ontario. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 12 (1): 63-71.

USEPA. 1993. Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments (ARCS) Program; Biological and Chemical Assessment of Contaminated Great Lakes Sediment. *

Irvine, K.N., Snyder, R.J., Diggins, T.P., Sinn, B., Chuey, C.F., Jedlicka, J., and Barrett O’Neill, J. 2005. Assessment of Potential Aquatic Habitat Restoration Sites in the Buffalo River Area of Concern.

Mann-Klager, D.P. Hickey, J.T., Stilwell, D.A. 1993. Assessment of Potential Habitat Restoration Areas within the Buffalo River Area of Concern, Buffalo, New York. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. *

Irvine, K.N. 2007. Assessment of Trophic Status and Phytoplankton Population Characteristics in the Buffalo River AOC.

Kozuchowski, E. 1989. A Survey of Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Buffalo River and a Comparison to Past Surveys and a Different Method of Collection.

Sauer, D.E. 1979. An Environmental History of the Buffalo River. *

NO LINK—-Morris, S.R., Sheets, H.D., Stephan, B.K., Knott, L.T., Parise, A.M., Hamilton, M., and DeLeon, R.L. 2007. Avain Species Composition in Disturbed Riparian Environments: A Study of Three Waterways in Western New York.

Makarewicz, J.C., Dilcher, R.C., Haynes, J.M., and Shump, K. 1982. Biological Survey: Buffalo River and Outer Harbor of Buffalo, N.Y. US Army Corps of Engineers. *

Kozuchowski, E., Poole, E.A., and Lowie, C. 1993. Buffalo River Fisheries Assessment. Report on the results of the 1992 larval and adult fish survey. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Friends of the Buffalo River. 1996. Buffalo River Greenway Plan and Design Guidelines.

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers – Buffalo District. 1988. Buffalo River Sedimentation Study: Buffalo and West Seneca, New York.

Irvine, K.N. et al. 2003. Contaminated Sediment in the Buffalo River Area of Concern – Historical Trends and Current Conditions.

New York State DEC, Division of Fish, Wildlife, and Marine Resources. August 2002. Contaminants in Young-of-year Fish from Near-shore Areas of New York’s Great Lakes Basin, 1997. *

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. 1982. Control of Toxic Industrial Discharges in the Niagara River Basin. *

Skinner, et al. 2009. Data Report for Residues of Organic Chemicals and Four Metals in Edible tissues and Whole Fish for Fish Taken from the Buffalo River, New York.

Diggins, T.P. and Stewart, K.M. 1993. Deformities of Aquatic Larval Midges (Chironomidae: Diptera) in the Sediments of the Buffalo River, New York. Journal of Great Lakes Research 19(4): 648-659.

Rafferty, S. and Grazio, J. 2006. Field Manual for Assessing Internal and External Anomalies in Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus). Pennsylvania Sea Grant.

US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District. 2010. Finding of no significant impact and environmental assessment: Buffalo Harbor dredging, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Erie County Buffalo NY.(Click here)

Singer, J., Irvine, K.N., Snyder, R., Shero, B., Manley, P., and McLaren, P. 1994. Fish and Wildlife Habitat Assessment of the Buffalo River Area of Concern and Watershed.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. 1993. Fish and Wildlife Habitat Inventory and Assessment of the Lower Buffalo River Watershed. *

Ecology & Environment. 2011. Interim Buffalo River Area of Concern (AOC) Strategic Plan for Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) Delisting. USACE Contract #W912P4-10-D-0002.

Pettibone, G.W., and Irvine, K. N. 1996. Levels and Sources of Indicator Bacteria Associated with the Buffalo River “Area of Concern,” Buffalo, New York. Journal of Great Lakes Research 22(4): 896-905.

New York State DEC, Division of Fish, Wildlife, and Marine Resources. August 2006. PCB’s and Organochlorine Pesticides Residue in Young-of-Year Fish from Traditional Near-Shore Sampling Areas NYS’s Great Lakes Basin, 2003. *

USEPA. March 1985. Preliminary Evaluation of Chemical Migration to Groundwater and the Niagara River from Selected Waste – Disposal Sites. EPA-905/4-85-001.

USEPA and NYSDEC. 2005. Reductions of Toxics Loading to the Niagara River from Hazardous Waste Sites in the United States. *

New York State DEC, Division of Water. February 2005. Rotating Integrated Basin Studies, Water Quality Assessment Program, New York Statewide Waters Monitoring Program. The Niagara River – Lake Erie Drainage Basin; Sampling Years 2000-2001. *

Irvine, K.N., Perrelli, M.F., McCorkhill, G., and Caruso, J. 2005. Sampling and Modeling Approaches to Assess Water Quality Impacts of Combined Sewer Overflows – The Importance of a Watershed Perspective. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 31:105-115.

Meredith, D.D. and Rumer, R. R. 1987. Sediment Dynamics in the Buffalo River. Department of Civil Engineering; SUNY Buffalo.

Sweeney, R.A. 1970. Survey of Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Analysis of Water and Sediment from the Buffalo River, 1969.

Sweeney, R.A. 1971. Survey of Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Analysis of Water and Sediment from the Buffalo River, 1970.