Projects
Grant Number: 20264531
to support boating and environmental programming that bring New Haven area residents in contact with New Haven's waterfront.
Year Issued: 2026 | Amount: $20,000
New Haven Community Boating (formerly Canal Dock Boathouse, Inc.)
Contact Information
Susan Lane
susan.lane@ppsne.org
www.canaldock.org
Grant Number: 20251470
to support the improvement of public access on the lower Quinnipiac River, as well as to support advocating on state and local permits affecting water quality and quantity, and carry out bacteria monitoring.
Year Issued: 2025 | Amount: $17,000
River Advocates of South Central CT
Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky
marymushinsky@att.net
https://www.riveradvocatesscct.org/
Reports:
River Advocates 20251470.pdf
Grant Number: 20241215
to support boating and environmental programming that bring New Haven area residents in contact with New Haven's waterfront.
Year Issued: 2024 | Amount: $20,000
Canal Dock Boathouse
Contact Information
Hollis Martens
hollis@canaldock.org
https://www.canaldock.org/
Reports:
20241215 CANAL BOATHOUSE.pdf
Grant Number: 20231329
to support boating and environmental programming that bring New Haven area residents in contact with New Haven's waterfront.
Year Issued: 2023 | Amount: $18,000
Canal Dock Boathouse
Contact Information
Hollis Martens
hollis@canaldock.org
https://www.canaldock.org/
Reports:
CanalDockBoathouse_20231329.pdf
Grant Number: 20211287
to support reclaiming a floodplain habitat of Wharton Brook from invasive plant species, in partnership with a science class at Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford.
Year Issued: 2021 | Amount: $3,000
Southwest Conservation District
Contact Information
Chris S. Sullivan
CSullivan@conservect.org
https://conservect.org/southwest/
Grant Number: 20201263
to support cleaning logs and debris from a blocked access for boats in the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2020 | Amount: $3,650
Southwest Conservation District
Contact Information
Chris S. Sullivan
CSullivan@conservect.org
https://conservect.org/southwest/
Grant Number: 20190129
To support staffing for programs including boating event rentals, club boating programs, and vendor-operated rentals of kayaks and paddle boards on the New Haven Harbor and on the Quinnipiac and Mill rivers.
Year Issued: 2019 | Amount: $16,800
Canal Dock Boathouse
Contact Information
John Pescatore
jpescatore11@gmail.com
www.canaldock.org
Grant Number: 20150149
to support training 3 municipal department of public works crews in stormwater pollution prevention using Lunch and Learn sessions and to support investigating the lower Quinnipiac River public access potential at two locations: Lowe's on Route 80 in New Haven and behind Toelles Road businesses in Wallingford, adjacent to Quinnipiac River State Park. Mill River Watershed Association of South Central Connecticut, Inc. is acting as the fiscal sponsor.
Year Issued: 2015 | Amount: $5,000
River Advocates of Greater New Haven, Inc.
Contact Information
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
Contact Information
Dr. Shimon Anisfeld
shimon.anisfeld@yale.edu
http://environment.yale.edu/profile/anisfeld/multimedia
Reports:
20150148 final report.pdf
Grant Number: 20150151
to support the study of several sites along the Quinnipiac River to determine whether endocrine disruptors are present and then to trace their source.
Year Issued: 2015 | Amount: $11,000
University of New Haven, Department of Biology & Environmental Science
Contact Information
Dr. Melanie Eldridge
meldridge@newhaven.edu
http://www.newhaven.edu/4486/academic-departments/biology-environmental-science/
Reports:
Final report.pdf
CATEGORY
- Research (124)
- Pollution (105)
- Contamination (98)
- Public Education (95)
- quinnipiac river (72)
- Conservation (62)
- Public Access (48)
- Environmental Advocacy (45)
- Habitat (40)
- Recreation (34)
- Wildlife (33)
- (-) Remediation (32)
- Maps (24)
- Workshop (17)
- (-) grants (9)
- (-) Kayak (5)
- yale (4)
- Conference (3)
- Canoe (3)
- Quinnipiac River Race (1)
GRANTEE
- quinnipiac river watershed association (4)
- canal dock boathouse (3)
- north haven trail association (3)
- university of new haven, department of biology & environmental science (3)
- university of new haven, dept. of biology and environmental science (3)
- connecticut northeast organic farmers organization (2)
- southwest conservation district (2)
- connecticut coalition for environmental justice (1)
- connstep (1)
- elm city parks conservancy (1)
- friends of the linear trail, inc. (1)
- land use leadership alliance (lula) (1)
- new haven community boating (formerly canal dock boathouse, inc.) (1)
- new haven land trust, inc. (1)
- northeast organic farming association of connecticut, inc. (1)
- quinnipiac university (1)
- rex development (formerly known as south central ct regional econ. develop. corp) (1)
- river advocates of greater new haven, inc. (1)
- river advocates of south central ct (1)
- schooner, inc (1)
- south central ct regional econ. develop. corp (1)
- the new haven land trust, inc. (1)
- uconn-department of marine science (1)
- university of connecticut dept. of ecology (1)
- university of connecticut, college of agriculture and natural resources (1)
- university of connecticut, department of marine science (1)
- university of connecticut, dept. of chemistry (1)
- watershed partnership, inc (1)
- yale school of forestry & environmental studies (1)
- yale school of forestry/environmental studies (1)
- yale university grant and contract administration (1)