Projects
Grant Number: 20251473  
to support boating and environmental programming that bring New Haven area residents in contact with New Haven's waterfront. 
Year Issued: 2025 | Amount: $20,000 
        Canal Dock Boathouse  
  
  Contact Information
Susan Lane 
susan.lane@ppsne.org 
https://www.canaldock.org/
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/
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/
Grant Number: 20221223  
to support coliform bacteria testing program on one tributary or river segment of the Quinnipiac Watershed, as well as continued advocacy to strengthen state NPDES and local land use permits affecting water quality in the Quinnipiac River.
 
Year Issued: 2022 | Amount: $16,577 
        River Advocates of South Central Connecticut  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky  
marymushinsky@att.net 
www.riveradvocatesSCCT.org
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  
  
  Contact Information
Vincent Breslin 
Breslinv1@southernct.edu 
www.southernct.edu
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: 20180208  
To support a half day Quinnipiac Update conference; improvements to public access to the Little River, a Quinnipiac tributary, at Lowe's on Route 80 in New Haven; education of phosphorus control; and promotion of pollution and diversion permit participation. 
Year Issued: 2018 | Amount: $20,000 
        River Advocates of South Central Connecticut  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky 
marymushinsky@att.net 
www.riveradvocatesscct.org
Grant Number: 20180206  
To provide general operating support for recreational and educational programs related to the Quinnipiac River and New Haven Harbor. 
Year Issued: 2018 | Amount: $20,000 
        Canal Dock Boathouse  
  
  Contact Information
John Pescatore 
jpescatore11@gmail.com 
www.canaldock.org
Grant Number: 20160129  
To support, as a first priority, monitoring of pollution and diversion permits, and only then 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 at an abandoned, neglected Quinnipiac River site at Lowe's on Route 80 in New Haven and education of phosphorus control.
 
Year Issued: 2016 | Amount: $20,000 
        River Advocates of South Central Connecticut  
  
  Contact Information
Mary Mushinsky 
marymushinsky@att.net 
Grant Number: 940035  
To document the macrobenthic structure of the lower Quinnipiac River as an "ecological benchmark" against future changes. 
Year Issued: 1994 | Amount: $4,739 
        Southern Connecticut State University  
  
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