Thursday Night Nature: Gill Creek Green Infrastructure Solutions Project – Creating and Using Natural Ecosystems for Stormwater Purification with Brad Mudrzynski (May 29, 2025)

Gill Creek and its impoundment Hyde Park Lake are located within Hyde Park in the City of Niagara Falls, New York. The lake has poor water quality and experiences frequent Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), which impact aquatic life, prevent recreational fishing, and reduce lake and park aesthetics. This project was designed for the client, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, to intercept and treat approximately 2,000,000 gallons of previously untreated stormwater per year, as well as to provide riparian buffers that will reduce impacts from the surrounding golf course. The project includes creating wetland basins, beneficial reuse of spoil materials for additional wetland establishment, forested buffers with habitat mounds and pools, and establishment of perennial meadows surrounding Hyde Park Lake. The project will start construction in March 2025, and should be substantially complete by May 2025.

Brad is a retired farm kid with a master’s degree in Environmental Science from SUNY Brockport, a state college in upstate New York. He is a co-founder and partner of Land Ethic Planning & Restoration, a western New York-based environmental consulting firm. He serves as their principal ecologist and specializes in wetland ecology, ecological restoration design, and ecological planning. When he is not tromping through swamps or writing reports, Brad enjoys spending time with his family, tending to his bees, making maple syrup, and drinking coffee.

Program Fee: $15 (Members, enter your code at checkout to receive your 20% discount.)

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