BNW/WKA
The year the "Friends of the Buffalo River" was established.
What is 1989?
The longest creek in the Niagara River watershed.
The percentage of North America's surface fresh water that the Great Lakes contains.
What is 84%?
These toxic blooms, fueled by excessive nutrients in the water, have become a recurring problem in Lake Erie, impacting the region's water quality and ecosystem.
What are Harmful Algae Blooms?
This common wetland grass spreads vigorously via rhizomes.
The river where the Waterkeeper movement began.
What is the Hudson River?
Two creeks in the Niagara River watershed are named this.
This waterway connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway?
The measure of the clarity or clearness of water, indicating the presence of suspended particles or pollutants.
What is Turbidity?
The shoots of this species are so delicious, they can be made into a pie.
What is Japanese Knotweed?
The Waterkeeper movement defends the fundamental human right to this.
What is fishable, swimmable, drinkable water?
This creek's sub basin has the highest percentage of woodland and natural area cover of any in the watershed.
What is Eighteenmile Creek?
The only Great Lake that lies entirely within the US.
What is Lake Michigan?
This regulation establishes the basic structure for regulating pollutant discharges into waters of the US and regulating quality standards for surface waters.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This freshwater mussel species is said to have first been introduced to North America via ballast water in commercial vessels from Europe.
What is the zebra mussel?
In April 2005, BNW became the first non-profit in the Great Lakes Basin to sign a Feasibility Cost Share Agreement with the USACE for this.
What is the dredging of the Buffalo River?
What is Scajaquada Creek?
The largest of the fish found in the Great Lakes, this ancient species can weigh up to 300 lbs and grow to 6 ft.
What is the Lake Sturgeon?
Excessive growth of algae in bodies of water due to high nutrient levels, often resulting in oxygen depletion.
What is eutrophication?
This insect species causes sooty mold on host plants including Tree-of-Heaven, grapes and other crops.
What is the spotted lanternfly?
Since 2013, BNW has received this amount of funding.
What is $57.5 million?
Historically flowing near Hertel Ave, this creek is now only a few hundred feet long and is a hot spot for fecal coliform.
What is Cornelius Creek?
The only Great Lake that is not named after a Native American word or nation.
What is Lake Superior?
This DEC citizen science program collects biological data for assessment of water quality in wadeable streams. (full name, not acronym)
What is Water Assessments by Volunteer Evaluators (WAVE)?
Prevention of the invasion of this species in the Great Lakes is currently being prevented by an underwater electric barrier.
What is the Asian Carp?