Projects
Grant Number: 20180210
To support curriculum development and implementation assistance for the design and installation of bioswales and native plant/pollinator gardens at Lincoln Middle School and Washington Middle School in Meriden.
Year Issued: 2018 | Amount: $15,000
Connecticut Audubon Society
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Patrick Comins
pcomins@ctaudubon.org
www.ctaudubon.org
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: 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
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Sharon Lewis
sharonelewis2001@aol.com
www.environmental-justice.org
Grant Number: 20130073
To support environmental advocacy, particularly through raising awareness of new federal phosphorus requirements for the lower Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $15,000
Mill River Watershed Association of South Central Connecticut Inc.
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Cordalie Benoit
cordalie.benoit@aya.yale.edu
Grant Number: 20130053
To provide general operating support for fostering awareness of environmental issues of the Quinnipiac River and promoting activities that safeguard the health of residents that use the Quinnipiac River.
Year Issued: 2013 | Amount: $7,000
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
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Sharon Lewis
sharonelewis2001@aol.com
www.environmental-justice.org
Grant Number: 20120104
To support recruitment and training for residents in each of the river municipalities to become advocates on behalf of the Quinnipiac River in order to participate in public meetings on the upcoming Quinnipiac Watershed Action Plan Update of 2012 and to support the completion of the Lower Quinnipiac River Canoeable Trail and the Town of North Haven canoe launch to access the new trail.
Year Issued: 2012 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20020626
To support volunteer monitoring, Stream Walk problem assessment, regulatory research, grassroots advocacy, education - upper and lower river, and general public education.
Year Issued: 2002 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20040398
To support the annual monitoring, education, advocacy, public access and restoration activities as well as expanding grassroots organizing to continue with clean up activities in the Quinnipiac Rive Watershed Action Plan.
Year Issued: 2004 | Amount: $20,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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Grant Number: 20050346
To offer a short course in river processes to local members of conservation/inland wetland commissions and environmrntal activists. The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical and biological processes that govern stream exosystems, and how they are perturbed by human activities. Participants will receive the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environemntal data on the Q River.
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $7,500
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
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Grant Number: 20050335
To support the grassroots organization identified in the Quinnipac Watershed Action Plan and continue to organize volunteers toward implementaing the plan's actions. To harness the combined efforts of a large pool of citizen volunteers, clubs, civic roups, shcools and businesses, which hav eparticipated at least one year in a QRWA river activity. To use our conservation, recreation and education events and programs to increase our volunteer ranks. To continue to train and guide these volunteers toward reducing the point source and nonpoint source pollution that enters our waterways. These volunteers will educate landowners and builders whose activities have a direct impact on water quality and habitat health in tributaries and main rivers.
Year Issued: 2005 | Amount: $10,000
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
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