Projects
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/
Grant Number: 20241218  
to support the creation 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: 2024 | Amount: $17,000 
        River Advocates of South Central CT  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky 
marymushinsky@att.net 
https://www.riveradvocatesscct.org/
Grant Number: 20231326  
to support the creation 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: 2023 | Amount: $16,500 
        River Advocates of South Central CT  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky 
marymushinsky@att.net 
https://www.riveradvocatesscct.org/
Grant Number: 20211286  
to support a coliform bacteria testing program that uses trained volunteers to collect and a professional lab to analyze to support a coliform bacteria testing program that uses trained volunteers to collect and a professional lab to analyze bacteria in stream and river segments of the Quinnipiac Watershed, and to support advocacy for state and local permits affecting water quality of the Quinnipiac River. 
Year Issued: 2021 | Amount: $15,000 
        River Advocates of South Central CT  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky 
marymushinsky@att.net 
https://www.riveradvocatesscct.org/
Grant Number: 20201262  
to support the monitoring of state level permits affecting water quality, and then support water quality testing of the Quinnipiac River as well as recruitment and training of a permits observer corps to monitor local land use commissions and screen for testimony local land use permits.
 
Year Issued: 2020 | Amount: $15,769 
        River Advocates of South Central CT  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky 
marymushinsky@att.net 
https://www.riveradvocatesscct.org/
Grant Number: 20190130  
To support the recruitment and training of a permits observer corps to monitor local land use commissions and screen for testimony local land use permits, as well as assist in monitoring of state level permits affecting water quality. 
Year Issued: 2019 | Amount: $15,000 
        River Advocates of South Central CT  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky 
marymushinsky@att.net 
www.riveradvocatesscct.org
Grant Number: 20170090  
To support 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 site at Little River, a Quinnipiac tributary at Lowe's on Route 80 in New Haven; education of phosphorus control; and monitoring of pollution and diversion permits. 
Year Issued: 2017 | Amount: $10,000 
        River Advocates of South Central CT  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky 
marymushinsky@att.net 
www.riveradvocatesSCCT.org
Grant Number: 20011151  
To retain services to photograph the Quinnipiac River from New Haven to Wallingford.  The photos will be used by RGP, Yale University Coastal and Watershed Study Center, and the University of New Haven for academic, economic development and planning purposes.  The parties will be using the information for public education about the marshes and the interrelationships with the marsh.  RGP will be utilizing the photos to assist in the implementation of the Quinnipiac River Conservation and Development Corridor project (QRCDC). 
Year Issued: 2001 | Amount: $3,000 
        Regional Growth Partnership  
  
  Contact Information
Grant Number: 940075  
Complete three hydrographic dye dilution studies of the Wastewater Pollution Control Facilities. 
Year Issued: 1994 | Amount: $7,000 
        CT Dept. of Agriculture/Aquaculture Division  
  
  Contact Information
Grant Number: 930084  
To classify and assess shellfish growing water for the Quinnipiac River and New Haven Harbor. 
Year Issued: 1993 | Amount: $5,160 
        CT Dept. of Agriculture/Aquaculture Division  
  
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