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Grant Number: 20070055
Funds are requested to support the offering of a short course in river processes to local members of conservation/inland wetland commissions and environmental activists. The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical, and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems, and how they are perturbed by human activities. Participants will recieve the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environmental data on the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $8,064
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
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Grant Number: 20080176
Funds are requested to support the implementation of an intensive workshops to teach 100 Connecticut school groundskeepers how to mamnage fields without the use of harmful pesticides.
Year Issued: 2008 | Amount: $6,530
Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Organization
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Grant Number: 20090106
To support The Friends of the Quinnipiac Project which will remedy the effects of poor land use practiced by managers and owners of riparian properties through outreach, education, training, public recognition and technical assistance.
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $15,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20090103
To support residential organic landscaping workshops and website enhancements to better serve homeowners of the Quinnipiac River watershed in protecting their health and the environment.
Year Issued: 2009 | Amount: $9,000
Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Organization
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Grant Number: 20110105
To support the Quinnipiac Urban River Stewardship project, which will install several river stewardship signs in prominent locations to promote human links to this urban river and foster stewardship of the shared resource, as recommended in the watershed management plan for a similar urban river, the North Branch of the Park River in Hartford/Bloomfield.
Year Issued: 2011 | Amount: $16,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20010208
To develop a plan of action and then begin the process of repairing the bank erosion and tree infall in the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2001 | Amount: $2,500
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 990243
To continue to develop the Stream Team volunteer water quality monitoring programs as a force for river conservation, and to further analyze data collected in both 1999-2000 grant years.
Year Issued: 1999 | Amount: $12,500
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 930114
To continue "Survey of Symbiotic Roots Showing Mycorrhizal Fungi on Tidal Riverine Vegetation in the Lower Quinnipiac River".
Year Issued: 1993 | Amount: $4,472
UNIVERSITY of CONNECTICUT DEPT. OF ECOLOGY
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