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CHADWICK BAY SUPPORTS REGIONAL LWRP
June 04, 2013
Chadwick Bay RDC is supporting efforts to complete a regional LWRP for northern Chautauqua County communities from the Town of Ripley all the way to the Town of Hanover. These communities along the Lake Erie shoreline have expressed great interest in the completion of a Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan (LWRP) that will develop both local and regional projects that will increase tourism and recreational uses, provide infrastructure for development along the lake and improve water quality and mitigate erosion and flooding impacts. Chadwick Bay in collaboration with the Northern Community Foundation Local Economic Development Corporation and project sponsor - Chautauqua County Department of Planning & Economic Development has been securing municipal participation and soliciting funding for the project. An application for funding will be submitted through the Consolidated Funding Application process this summer. If awarded, it is anticipated that this grant would provide 50% of the cost of the LWRP. The remaining funding must be provided by local sources. To date local funding committments have been received from the Chautauqua County Lake Erie Management Commission and the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation. Additional funding requests are in process.
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NEXT CHADWICK BAY BOARD MEETING - 6/20/2013
June 04, 2013
The next meeting of the Board of Directors of the Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corporation will be held June 20, 2013 at 5:30pm - at the Silver Creek Village Hall.
The agenda can be accessed by clicking on the "Agendas" page of this website.
All meetings are open to the public and citizens may address the board during the privilege of the floor portion of the agenda.
For more information contact Executive Director Kathy Tampio at 716-679-5157 or by email at mktampio@gmail.com
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CHADWICK BAY RECEIVES GRANT FROM NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
November 09, 2012
As a result of a successful grant application made to the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation, Chadwick Bay will receive $10,000 in funding to be used as a portion of the local match funds needed in order to receive the $150,000 grant awarded by the Appalachian Regional Commission program administered locally by Southern Tier West. The grant funds will be used for engineering costs for the development of the regional water system implementation plan.
Ongoing efforts to secure additional funding for the implementation plan in development by Clark Patterson Lee are being coordinated by Brennan Group Consulting and CBRDC Executive Director Kathy Tampio.
Clark Patterson Lee has been meeting with water system operators in all the communities in northern Chautauqua County from Ripley to Hanover. Meetings have also been held with local businesses who are our region's largest water users, including Nestle Purina, Cott and Carriage House. Plans are underway to set up meetings with SUNY Fredonia, Fieldbrook Foods and the Lake Erie Regional Health system.
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REGIONAL WATER PROGRAM COMMUNITY INFORMATIONAL MEETING
October 16, 2012
A community informational meeting about the Chadwick Bay Regional Water initiative was held on Thursday, October 11 from 11am to 2pm at the Dunkirk Clarion Hotel.
The meeting was attended by local and county officials as well as members of regional community groups including representatives of the Chautauqua Chamber of Commerce, Fredonia Rotary Club, the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation, Chautauqua County IDA, Southern Tier West and leaders from local industry.
Speakers included Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards, Patrick Brennan of Brennan Consulting, Jeff Smith of Municipal Solutions, Rick Henry of Clark Patterson Lee, representatives of state and federal funding agencies and leaders from other successful regional water systems including Genesee, Livingston and Niagara Counties.
Please click on the news headline to access the meeting powerpoint presentation and the regional water brochure with map.
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CHADWICK BAY HIRES LEAD CONSULTANT FOR REGIONAL WATER
July 31, 2012
The engineering firm of Clark Patterson Lee has been selected by Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corporation as their lead consultant for the regional water system implementation plan. Project management will be led by Rick Henry, Senior Vice President of Clark Patterson Lee. A local office for the firm has been opened in the Village of Fredonia.
With Clark Patterson Lee now on board work has begun to plan a fall kick-off meeting for business and community members, local, county and state officials, and funding agencies. This meeting is the first step in the process to create a regional water system. Chadwick Bay Executive Director Kathy Tampio explains, "It is very important to the success of this regional effort to engage the whole community to create a "road map" to realize our goals, which are (1) to provide reliable, sustainable, quality water to the residents and businesses of northern Chautauqua County, (2) to improve the cost effectiveness of the region's water supply system and (3) to enable regional economic growth."
The initial proposed service area of over 36,000 residents includes the Towns of Pomfret, Sheridan, Dunkirk and Portland, the Villages of Fredonia and Brocton and the City of Dunkirk. The implementation plan will include designs for potential future service area expansion to the Town of Hanover, the Village of Silver Creek, the Town & Village of Westfield and the Town of Ripley. Other phase one tasks will include the legal requirements of a regional system, an in-depth financial analysis and a master operation plan.
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CHADWICK BAY REGIONAL EFFORTS HIGHLIGHTED AT DUNKIRK CHAMBER MEETING
June 15, 2012
The Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce board of directors heard about the regional efforts of Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corporation (CBRDC) from Executive Director Kathy Tampio. Tampio was invited to speak at their recent meeting held at the Clarion in Dunkirk.
Tampio explained that the mission of CBRDC is to "develop, promote and support regional economic development projects." She continued with an overview of the past accomplishments of CBRDC, their current activities, and what's on their list for future projects.
Of particular interest to the group were the current initiatives for the implementation of a regional water system. Tampio identified the basic goals of regional water as "#1 - to provide a reliable, sustainable regional water system for our residents and businesses that would enable economic growth, and #2 - to lower the cost of water to all customers - our residents and our businesses. As a result of the feasibility study for a regional water system that was completed by Wendel Duchscherer Engineers in 2010, these goals are supported."
Chadwick Bay is now in the process of selecting a Lead Consultant to accomplish the tasks needed to implement the regional water system. The group hopes to have that consultant on board by the end of the summer when work will immediately begin with community meetings. Other tasks include creating the legal framework of the regional system, environmental review, GIS mapping & inventory of existing water treatment and distribution systems, creating an asset management plan, a financial analysis and funding plan, designs for potential future geographic expansion to other communities and an operation & maintenance master plan. The implementation plan process has been made possible through funding obtained by CBRDC from the Appalachian Regional Commission Federal funding program.
Chadwick Bay is exploring many future projects including completing a regional Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan, updating the CBRDC Strategic Plan, increasing community participation by involving other regional development groups such as the county and local Chamber of Commerce boards, and by effectively engaging our regional academic institutions - Jamestown Community College, Jamestown Business College and SUNY Fredonia.
The Chadwick Bay member communities include the City of Dunkirk, the Villages of Silver Creek, Brocton and Fredonia, and the Towns of Hanover, Sheridan, Dunkirk, Pomfret and Portland. For more information about CBRDC, go to their website at http://www.chadwickbayrdc.com/.
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REGIONAL OPPORTUNITIES DISCUSSED WITH RIPLEY AND WESTFIELD
May 23, 2012
A meeting was facilitated by Jay Warren of the NCCF Local Economic Development group on 5/23/12 with representatives of the Towns of Ripley & Westfield and the Village of Westfield and Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corporation. Mayor David Carr, Supervisor Doug Bowen and Supervisor Martha Bills were joined by Chadwick Bay RDC Executive Director Kathy Tampio. Also present was Aaron Resnick of the Westfield Development Corp.
The discussion began with the current progress of a plan to implement a regional water district in northern Chautauqua County. Ripley and Westfield officials were very interested in how the district would be formed, the possible benefits to their community and to the region and if the plan would consider the potential future interconnection with the Ripley and Westfield water systems. "The implementation plan tasks includes the investigation of future geographic expansion that could include Silver Creek and Hanover as well as Ripley and Westfield", said Tampio.
Other regional initiatives that were expressed as important projects for the Westfield/Ripley areas included participation in a Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan for all the communities in northern Chautauqua County along Lake Erie, a regional approach for addressing blight or derelict structures and the promotion of tourism projects, most importantly the Gateway Project at the Ripley exit from the Thruway.
Future discussions regarding Ripley and Westfield membership in Chadwick Bay RDC are planned. "It only makes sense that the Chadwick Bay Region includes these communities as we implement economic development projects that capitalize on the regional advantage we have in our funding applications," said Tampio.
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PROPOSALS RECEIVED FOR LEAD CONSULTANT - REGIONAL WATER IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
May 15, 2012
On May 8, 2012 the Chadwick Bay Regional Development Corporation received 6 proposals from consulting firms in response to an RFP (Request for Proposals) for a Lead Consultant to develop and direct an implementation plan for a regional water group in northern Chautauqua County. A committee has been formed to reveiw the proposals and make a selection recommendation to the CBRDC Board of Directors. The proposals came from firms that have extensive experience with infrastructure projects in western New York. The firms who submitted are - Clark Patterson Lee, GHD, Nussbaumer & Clarke, TVGA, URS and Wendel.
Once a Lead Consultant has been selected, the first Task will be to hold a kick off meeting for all City, Town, Village, business and community representatives to learn about other successful regional water efforts including the Niagara County Water District, Genesee County Water District and Water Resources Agency, and the Joint Black River initiative in Jefferson County. Participants will be asked to jointly develop an outline of tasks and activities that will direct the implementation plan. Other presenters would include representatives from NYS Rural Water and state & federal funding agencies such as USDA Rural Development, Appalachian Regional Commission, NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation and the NYS Department of State.
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REGIONAL WATER EFFORTS OF CHADWICK BAY RDC RECOGNIZED AT CONFERENCE
April 25, 2012
The Chadwick Bay regional water initiative was singled out as one of the most promising regional projects in the state at a recent government conference held by the Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at Minnowbrook Conference Center on Blue Mountain Lake.
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