Projects

Four-Day Workshop
Grant Number: 20020629
To work with selected leaders from Quinnipiac River Watershed communities to improve the land use decision-making process and control non-point source pollution.  The proposed program is for a 4-day workshop, emphasizing the regulatory power to make wise land use decisions, and presenting collaborative decision making techniques.
Year Issued: 2002 | Amount: $3,369
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Quinnipiac River Park
Grant Number: 20020637
To continue the work the Fair Haven community has done towards cleaning, maintaining and planning for an eco-sensitive Quinnipiac River Park.
Year Issued: 2002 | Amount: $10,000
Elm City Parks Conservancy
Educational Activities
Grant Number: 20010410
To support educational activities taking place on-board the schooner Quinnipiac that will connect students and teachers from upper watershed schools with students and teachers in lower watershed schools.
Year Issued: 2001 | Amount: $8,000
Schooner, Inc
Repairing Bank Erosion
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
Stream Team
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
Stream Team
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
Pollution Prevention Assessments
Grant Number: 980283
To conduct pollution prevention assessments at six volunteer manufacturing companies to assist in identifying opportunities to reduce discharges and environmental impacts.
Year Issued: 1998 | Amount: $7,000
Connstep
Reports: 980283 CONNSTEP.pdf
Advocate for Clean Water
Grant Number: 970241
For current information on how the Long Island Soundkeeper Fund is advocating for clean water and solutions to local pollution problems, please visit their web site: http://www.soundkeeper.org/program-areas/
Year Issued: 1997 | Amount: $5,000
Long Island Soundkeeper Fund, Inc.
Enhance Quinnipiac River Home Page
Grant Number: 970238
To continue to enhance & update the home page of the Quinnipiac River fund on the World Wide Web to disseminate information regarding the QR and New Haven Harbor ecosystems.
Year Issued: 1997 | Amount: $5,000
UCONN-Department of Marine Science
Web Page Development/GIS data & QRW data
Grant Number: 970239
Continued support for the development of a geographic information system for the Quinnipiac River watershed.
Year Issued: 1997 | Amount: $10,000
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science