Projects
Grant Number: 20150148
to support continued monitoring of sediment accretion and elevation change in the Quinnipiac marshes, and to support a marsh organ experiment to assess whether soil toxicity is contributing to marsh submergence
Year Issued: 2015 | Amount: $12,300
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
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Dr. Shimon Anisfeld
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu
http://environment.yale.edu/profile/anisfeld/multimedia
Grant Number: 20120101
To support a study about the impacts of wastewater from municipal waste water treatment plants on fish health in the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $18,000
University of Connecticut, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Grant Number: 961213
To measure the quantity of bioavailable toxic forms of dissolved heavy metals in the QR seasonally and during storm events.
Year Issued: 1996 | Amount: $5,000
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 20070054
Funds are requested to support implementation of informational and educational efforts and activities advocating for pesticide use reduction. These efforts will focus on the 80 property owners whose properties abut the Quinnipiac River in Plainville, CT. The activities will include 2 river clean-ups, coordination of a fishing derby, Earth Day Extravaganza, promotion and advocacy of Freedom Lawn Initiative, and a Tomasso Nature Park clean-up. (see grant notes)
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $2,000
Farmington River Watershed Association, Inc.
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Grant Number: 20100119
To educate fishers on the safe consumption of fish from the Quinnipiac River and to work with the State Department of Environmental Protection to ensure fish signage is posted in fishing areas in common languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, Kmer, Lao and Vietnamese.
Year Issued: 2010 | Amount: $13,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
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Grant Number: 20110133
To continue to educate fishers on safe consumption of fish by volunteers, bilingual safe fishing signage posted at river locales and by building grassroots support for a new state ban on lead fishing weights in the interest of fishers' and wildlife well-being.
Year Issued: 2011 | Amount: $5,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
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Grant Number: 20001257
To support a high level intensive policy planning workshop to address continuing contamination and degradation of the Quinnipiac River Marshes.
Year Issued: 2000 | Amount: $5,000
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 990241
To support the project 'Symposium on Point Source Pollution and Toxic Legacies in the Quinnipiac River'.
Year Issued: 1999 | Amount: $16,500
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 980221
To support the proposal entitled, Quinnipiac River: Point Source White Paper which would bring together information on all current discharges into the River, rank them by volume of toxic materials discharged, etc.
Year Issued: 1998 | Amount: $5,000
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 940039
Use ultra-clean methods to pinpoint sources of toxic heavy metals, to establish a history of metal pollution in the river.
Year Issued: 1994 | Amount: $5,380
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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