Projects
Grant Number: 20150153
to support the Be the Solution to Pollution project which raises awareness of how pollution threatens the health of humans, animals, and the environment along the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2015 | Amount: $13,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
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Ms. Sharon Lewis
sharonelewis2001@aol.com
www.environmental-justice.org
Grant Number: 20140051
to support water testing to identify a point source polluter of diethylhexyl phthalate and other plasticizers in the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $7,000
Quinnipiac University
Contact Information
Dr. Harry M. Pylypiw
Harry.Pylypiw@quinnipiac.edu
www.quinnipiac.edu
Grant Number: 20140143
to support a community education course to train 20 New Haven residents about ways to reduce water pollution in the Quinnipiac River and its human health impacts, who will in turn educate 1000 additional residents in the community.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $15,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Contact Information
Sharon Lewis
sharonelewis2001@aol.com
www.environmental-justice.org
Grant Number: 20130076
To support Surveying the Quinnipiac River, a study of bis-2-ethylhexyl phthalate and other plasticizers in an effort to characterize contamination from industrial sources.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $7,000
Quinnipiac University
Contact Information
Harry Pylypiw
Harry.Pylypiw@quinnipiac.edu
www.quinnipiac.edu
Grant Number: 20120096
To support the education of fishers on safe consumption of fish from the Quinnipiac River and work with the State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to ensure fish signage is posted in the area in appropriate languages as well as support an exchange program where Quinnipiac River fishers can trade their lead weights for non-lead weights.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $2,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
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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: 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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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: 990242
To study the biological impoverishment of the Lower Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 1999 | Amount: $12,500
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
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