Genesee RiverWatchCategory: Improve Water Quality
RIT Capstone Project Presentation: Monitoring Programs for the Oatka Creek Streambank Restoration and the Genesee River Watershed
Join us on April 16 to learn more about the updated monitoring programs!
Read MoreOur Final 2025 Genesee River Cleanup Was A Success!
Thank you to everyone that helped with our final river cleanup for 2025!
Read MoreThe Erie Canal and Genesee River Water Quality
As part of Channel 10’s series on the Erie Canal, Genesee RiverWatch talks about the effect of the Erie Canal on the Genesee River
Read MoreGenesee RiverWatch Provides Comments on NYSDEC’s Proposed Water Quality Guidance Values (GVs) for Phosphorus
On December 20, 2024, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) released new proposed water quality guidance values (GVs) that will advance the State’s regulation of the nutrient phosphorus to protect human health and aquatic life in both flowing and ponded ambient…
Read MoreNovel Streambank Restoration Techniques Evaluated on Oatka Creek
Genesee RiverWatch has published a White Paper describing novel streambank restoration techniques on Oatka Creek
Read MoreThe Genesee River Basin: Getting the Attention it Deserves
Genesee River Basin stakeholders are accelerating the implementation of best management practices to reduce phosphorus and sediment impacts in the Genesee, its tributaries, and Lake Ontario.
Read MoreRiver Cleanup Organized by Genesee RiverWatch
Check out this news report about our Early Earth Day Cleanup! On Saturday, April 13, 2024, volunteers from Genesee RiverWatch, in cooperation with the City of Rochester, conducted a cleanup of trash that has been accumulating on the east bank…
Read MoreJaycox Creek Watershed Agricultural Best Management Practices
Agricultural Best Management Practices (Ag BMPs) in Livingston County Work was completed on five Agricultural Best Management Practices projects in September 2023 to reduce nutrient loads from the Jaycox Creek-Genesee River watershed. The funding for this work was granted in…
Read MorePhosphorus: WXXI Connections – Genesee RiverWatch Discussing Impacts to Water Quality
A discussion with Evan Dawson of WXXI about Phosphorus and its Impact on Water Quality
Read MoreMallards Dairy 2019 Streambank Restoration Project – Houghton
Genesee RiverWatch has completed the project to stabilize and restore 1800′ of eroding streambank near Houghton, NY in the Town of Caneadea. The project was funded by the Great Lakes Commission ($197 K) and the owner of Mallards Dairy who…
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