Projects
Grant Number: 20120104
To support recruitment and training for residents in each of the river municipalities to become advocates on behalf of the Quinnipiac River in order to participate in public meetings on the upcoming Quinnipiac Watershed Action Plan Update of 2012 and to support the completion of the Lower Quinnipiac River Canoeable Trail and the Town of North Haven canoe launch to access the new trail.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20030664
To work directly with municipalities in the Quinnipiac river watershed not only to educate municipal officials, but also to follow up and help them improve municipal regulations that affect water quality in the Quinnipiac and watershed. Primary target for this project are municipal CEO's, Planning and Zoning Commissions, Inland Wetland Commissions, and Town Councils.
Year Issued: 2003 | Amount: $10,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Partnership
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Grant Number: 20040398
To support the annual monitoring, education, advocacy, public access and restoration activities as well as expanding grassroots organizing to continue with clean up activities in the Quinnipiac Rive Watershed Action Plan.
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20050337
To support a graduate student that will work with the PI and others (e.g. at the RGP) to maintain the QRW (Quinniipiac River Watershed) GIS(Georgraphic Information System) and the related website and to conduct GIS based analyses that focus on the lower river and its surroundings.
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $17,500
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science
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Grant Number: 20050335
To support the grassroots organization identified in the Quinnipac Watershed Action Plan and continue to organize volunteers toward implementaing the plan's actions. To harness the combined efforts of a large pool of citizen volunteers, clubs, civic roups, shcools and businesses, which hav eparticipated at least one year in a QRWA river activity. To use our conservation, recreation and education events and programs to increase our volunteer ranks. To continue to train and guide these volunteers toward reducing the point source and nonpoint source pollution that enters our waterways. These volunteers will educate landowners and builders whose activities have a direct impact on water quality and habitat health in tributaries and main rivers.
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $10,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20070064
Funds are requested to support organization and implementation of outreach and advocacy for the Quinnipiac Watershed Stream Buffer Initiative (Phase II) and regular grassroots events.
Year Issued: 2007 | Amount: $16,500
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20100120
To support The Friends of the Quinnipiac Project to 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: 2010 | Amount: $16,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20000317
To continue to work on scientifically validated Stream Team assessment program, to redesign the program to use a larger poll of personnel who will learn to perform rapid assessment in the field to collect baseline and annual data, develop a bioassessment protocol for the salt marsh in the lower river that can be performed by teams, and enlarge citizen "eyes on the river," the Adopt-the-River program, but reorganizing adopters so that they are convened together at least once per year to learn skills of river protection and restoration and to report progress to officials.
Year Issued: 2000 | Amount: $10,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 950104
To organize the community that live in NH QRiver section to learn about the river & establish a permanent advocacy group.
Year Issued: 1995 | Amount: $3,000
N H Urban Resources Init.
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Grant Number: 940082
To start an "Adopt the River" program and to continue a lecture series.
Year Issued: 1994 | Amount: $5,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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