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1 Bibliography Alden, M., Mortsch, L., Sheraga, J., Climate Change & Water Quality in the Great Lakes Region: Risks, Opportunities & Responses. Detroit: Report of the Great Lakes Water Quality Board to the International Joint Commission, 2003 Alliance for the Great Lakes, Emerging Contaminant Threats and the Great Lakes: Existing Science, estimating relative risk and determining policies, Chicago: 2011 American Water Works Association, Climate Change: How does Weather Affect Surface Water Quality?, 2013 Archer, Rankin, Bi National Assessments of Marsh Habitat Quality for the Niagara River and Buffalo River Areas of Concern, 2011 Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER (BNR), Buffalo and Niagara Rivers Habitat Assessment and Conservation Framework, Buffalo: BNR, (Wooster, Margaret), 2008 Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER (BNR), Niagara River Regional Habitat Conservation Strategy, Buffalo: BNR, 2014 Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER (BNR), Niagara River Watershed Management Plan (Phase I) Atlas, Buffalo: BNR, 2013 Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER (BNR), Riverwatch 2013 Water Quality Report, (Murawski, Chris), Buffalo: BNR, 2014 Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER (BNR), A Wildlife Survey of the Lower Buffalo River Area of Concern, Buffalo: (Applied Ecological Services, Inc.) 2012 Buffalo Sewer Authority (BSA), Long Term Control Plan, Buffalo: BSA, 2012 Carlson, D.M., List of fishes of the Niagara River in New York, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. (2001). Clean Water Act of 1972, 33 U.S.C et seq. (2002). Retrieved from Bibliography 1

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4 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC), State Pollution Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) General Permit for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) General Permit No. GP , Albany: NYS DEC, modified 7/29/2013 New York State Department of Health, Source Waters Assessment Program (SWAP), Albany: NYS DEC, Revised 2006 New York State Office of Real Property Services, Assessor s Manual: Data Collection and Maintenance of Property Inventories RFV. Property Type Classification and Ownership Codes, Albany: NYS DEC, September 2006 New York Power Authority (NYPA), Relicensing Greenway Funds, a list of projects funded is available online at Niagara County, Parcel and Tax Assessment Data, , retrieved from, O Neill, Jr., Charles R. Water Chestnut (Trapanatans) in the Northeast, NYSG Invasive Species Factsheet Series 06 1, Feb 2006 Petranka, J. W. Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, P.L , 90 Stat. 795, 42 U.S.C et seq., October 21, 1976 Snyder, M. N., Goetz, S. J. and Wright, R. K. (2005), Stream Health Rankings Predicted By Satellite Derived Land Cover Metrics. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 41: doi: /j tb03762.x Town of Colden Hydrofracking Committee, Gas Drilling in the Town of Colden, COLDEN: 2013 United States Department of Homeland security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Flood Insurance Rates Maps, 2014 United States Geologic Survey (USGS), Water Quality in the Lake Erie Lake Saint Clair Drainages, USGS Circular 1203, (Myers, Donna N., et al.), 2000 United States Geologic Survey (USGS), Ground-Water Quality in Western New York, 2006 Bibliography 4

5 United States Geologic Survey (USGS), Hydrologic Unit Codes (HUC), retrieved from United States Geologic Survey (USGS), National Hydrography Dataset, retrieved from United States Global Change Research Program, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009 United States Census Bureau: Annual New Privately Owned Residential Building Permits by County, , Retrieved from United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NYS Water Quality Standards Program United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Water Quality Inventory: Report to Congress, 2000 United States Global Change Research Program, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, 2009 United States Census Bureau: Census 2010, Summary File 1, generated using American Factfinder: White, E.L., J.J. Schmid, T.G. Howard, M.D. Schlesinger, and A.L. Feldmann. New York State freshwater conservation blueprint project, phases I and II: Freshwater systems, species, and viability metrics. New York Natural Heritage Program, The Nature Conservancy. Albany, NY. 85 pp. plus appendix, 2011 White, Marian E., Iroquois Culture History in the Niagara Frontier Area of NYS ArcGIS Shapefile Data Sets 1 Erie County, Parcel and Tax Assessment Data, utilized for analyses, statistics and baseline data, beyond map generation. ArcGIS datasets utilized for map generation are included as data sources in the maps themselves. Bibliography 5

6 Genesee County, Parcel and Tax Assessment Data, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Coastal Service Center, Land Use/Land Cover Data Set, 2005 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC), Environmental Site Remediation Database, 2014 United States Census Bureau: Urbanized Area Statistics by County (acreage within the watershed boundary), 2000 and 2010 United States Environmental Protection Agency, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS).Superfund Site Information, 2012 United States Census Bureau: Census 2000 and Census 2010, Urbanized Area Statistics by County (acreage within the watershed boundary), generated from ArcGIS Urbanized Area Shapefile Data. United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), The National Wetlands Inventory (NWI), 2014 Wyoming County, Parcel and Tax Assessment Data, Bibliography 6

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