Projects
Grant Number: 20221223
to support coliform bacteria testing program on one tributary or river segment of the Quinnipiac Watershed, as well as continued advocacy to strengthen state NPDES and local land use permits affecting water quality in the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2022 | Amount: $16,577
River Advocates of South Central Connecticut
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Mary Mushinsky
marymushinsky@att.net
www.riveradvocatesSCCT.org
Grant Number: 20180208
To support a half day Quinnipiac Update conference; improvements to public access to the Little River, a Quinnipiac tributary, at Lowe's on Route 80 in New Haven; education of phosphorus control; and promotion of pollution and diversion permit participation.
Year Issued: 2018 | Amount: $20,000
River Advocates of South Central Connecticut
Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky
marymushinsky@att.net
www.riveradvocatesscct.org
Grant Number: 20160129
To support, as a first priority, monitoring of pollution and diversion permits, and only then Lunch and Learn sessions for municipal department of public works crews in the lower Quinnipiac watershed for best practices in stormwater pollution prevention; enforcement of public access at an abandoned, neglected Quinnipiac River site at Lowe's on Route 80 in New Haven and education of phosphorus control.
Year Issued: 2016 | Amount: $20,000
River Advocates of South Central Connecticut
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Mary Mushinsky
marymushinsky@att.net
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: 20140010
to support the continuation of investigating the compliance history and indirect discharges of publically owned treatment works on the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $6,000
Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative, Inc.
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Attorney Alan Kosloff
alan.kosloff@law.uconn.edu
www.culi-law.org/
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: 20020633
To continue monitoring vegetation change and mudflat development in the Quinnipiac River brackish marshes, and begin to test hypothesized causes for the observed wetland loss. To complete a nitrogen and trace metal analyses and begin to assess how marsh loss has affected the load of pollutants to the river.
Year Issued: 2003 | Amount: $13,000
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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Grant Number: 20030658
To educate New Haven's youth about the natural and social systems that affect the Quinnipiac River. To design and execute a community service action project that addresses an issue for youth to identify and teach what they have learned and accomplished to others; thereby building a constituency of urban advocates for the Quinnipiac River. This project is called Kids Explore!, Kids Do!, Kids Teach!
Year Issued: 2003 | Amount: $8,000
Solar Youth
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Grant Number: 20010664
To make 20 more copies of the Quinnipiac River Report on the water quality of the river.
Year Issued: 2001 | Amount: $500
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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