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Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy’s Twan Leenders presents to the Jamestown Local Development Corporation board (March 15, 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Jamestown Local Development Corporation<\/strong> board has approved over $360,000 toward Chadakoin River<\/strong> bank stabilization and debris removal.<\/p>\n

Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy<\/strong> Conservation Director Twan Leenders<\/strong> presented a request for $362,925 in American Rescue Plan<\/strong> funding to remove debris in the Chadakoin River basin<\/strong> as well as do bank stabilization work on the basin’s north shore as well as the north and south shores between the Warner Dam<\/strong> and Main Street Bridge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Leenders said with the city receiving funding to activate the Chadakoin River basin, there are other projects that should take place first, “It involves items like the existence of tree stumps and vertical spikes in the basin. If you go down to the Chadakoin basin right now, with the water level being as low as it is, you’ll see three, four-foot spikes sticking up out of the sediment. You’ll see tree stumps sticking up. And, you know at this point the dam is still open because it’s on the winter regime, so it’s mostly for flood control just getting water from Chautauqua Lake<\/strong>, melting water, rain water, to feed it out as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

Leenders said the dam will close on May 1, causing water levels in the basin to rise to the same level as Chautauqua Lake and hiding those spikes from boaters. He recommended the debris removal be done as soon as possible given that water levels are low and the DEC<\/strong> will prohibit work in the river come April 1 when fish spawning season arrives.<\/p>\n

Leenders said Chautauqua County Soil and Water Conservation District<\/strong> would be contracted to do the work for all of the projects.<\/p>\n

JLDC broke up CWC’s request by approving $35,000 for the debris removal project so that that project could begin immediately. They then approved a second resolution for the remaining $327,925 for bank stabilization work.<\/p>\n

City Council<\/strong> will review the $327,925 funding request at its work session on Monday, March 20th where Leenders is expected to present on the request.<\/p>\n

Council previously approved $277,750 from the Water, Sewer and Broadband funds category to fund phase one of the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy Chadakoin River Stabilization Project. Phase one, which involved the CWC removing debris and clearing trees out of the lower Chadakoin River, was completed in Summer 2022.<\/p>\n

Chautauqua Institution<\/strong>‘s Symphony Orchestra was granted $50,000 in Downtown Programming funds for a concert at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts.<\/p>\n

The program will be “The Music of Billy Joel featuring Michael Cavanaugh with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra<\/strong>” and is scheduled to take place Thursday, August 17.<\/p>\n

This will be the first time the Chautauqua Symphony performs off the Institution’s grounds. Their previously scheduled performance in 2020 was canceled due to the Pandemic and the performance scheduled for August 2022 was canceled after author Salman Rushdie<\/strong> was attacked at the Institution’s Amphiteatre the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jamestown Local Development Corporation board has approved over $360,000 toward Chadakoin River bank stabilization and debris removal. Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy Conservation Director Twan Leenders presented a request for $362,925 in American Rescue Plan funding to remove debris in the Chadakoin River basin as well as do bank stabilization work on the basin’s north shore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":50775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[10348,376,12501,445,456,457,4218,483,1122,1147,8775,6198,11922,4204,10673],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Leenders-JLDC-3-15-23.jpg?fit=696%2C542&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-dcW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50981,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/debris-removal-in-chadakoin-river-basin-expected-to-begin-in-april\/","url_meta":{"origin":50774,"position":0},"title":"Debris Removal in Chadakoin River Basin Expected to Begin in April","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"March 29, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Work to remove debris in the Chadakoin River Basin is expected to begin in April. 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