Projects
Grant Number: 20190127
To support an examination of the seasonal variation in the composition and quantity of microplastic particles from wastewater treatment facilities discharging treated wastewater into the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2019 | Amount: $16,000
Southern Connecticut State University
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Vincent Breslin
Breslinv1@southernct.edu
www.southernct.edu
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.
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Mary Mushinsky
marymushinsky@att.net
Grant Number: 20140009
to support outreach, education and advocacy of the current school lawn pesticide ban and activities associated with the expansion of the ban to include all Connecticut parks, playgrounds, municipal playing fields and town greens, as well as the enhancement of the organization's website.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $20,000
The Watershed Partnership, Inc.
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Jerry Silbert
WaterPartnership@SBCglobal.net
www.WatershedPartnership.org
Grant Number: 20140147
to support increasing capacity of the organization, sponsoring public events to focus attention on the lower Quinnipiac and urban rivers of Greater New Haven, and implementing certain recommendations from the Urban River Permits Project to reduce polluted runoff.
Year Issued: 2014 | Amount: $20,000
River Advocates of Greater New Haven, Inc.
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Martin Mador
martin.mador@aya.yale.edu
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: 20120062
To support the Safe Grounds Campaign to reduce and ultimately eliminate the use of toxic lawn pesticides in the Quinnipiac River watershed and throughout Connecticut.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $20,000
The Watershed Partnership, Inc.
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Grant Number: 20120453
To support the review of Cytec's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) water permit for discharges into the Quinnipiac River and see if there have been any violations of their permit during this year or during the past 5 years.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $2,000
Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative, Inc.
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Grant Number: 20040390
To measure contamination along the Quinnipiac River and in oysters of the New Haven Harbor and evaluate the extent of mercury pollution and identify sources and hotspots.
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $7,500
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
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Grant Number: 20040385
To support a short course in river processes to local environmental activists and municipal officials that will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems and how they are perturbed by human activities.
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $7,390
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
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Grant Number: 20050347
To support investigation of the various stresses that may be contributing to the extensive loss of vegetation in the Quinnipiac tidal marshes and begin to gather data on the relative importance of sub-surface compaction, decompositon in causing elevation loss in this ecosystem.
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $12,000
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
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