Conservation

GIS Data Layers and Analyses

Organization: 
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 21, 2002
Amount: 
17 992.00
Description: 
For development of GIS data layers and analyses in support of conservation and sustainable development activities in the lower Quinnipiac River Watershed.

Quinnipiac River Park

Organization: 
Elm City Parks Conservancy
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 21, 2002
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To continue the work the Fair Haven community has done towards cleaning, maintaining and planning for an eco-sensitive Quinnipiac River Park.

Course on river processes

Organization: 
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Date Issued: 
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To offer a short course in river processes to local environmental activist and municipal officials.  The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems and how they are perturbed by human activities. Participants will receive the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environmental data on the Quinnipiac River.

Quinnipiac River Watershed Partnership

Organization: 
Elm City Parks Conservancy
Date Issued: 
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Amount: 
8 000.00
Description: 
To educate the community about the effects of pollution, to increase access to the Quinnipiac River, to empower the residents to right environmental wrongs and to enhance appreciation for parkland and its preservation.

Annual Monitoring

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
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.

Hemingway Creek Wetland Protection

Organization: 
New Haven Land Trust, Inc
Date Issued: 
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Amount: 
12 300.00
Description: 
To fund the protection of the Heminway Creek, a tributary of the Quinnipiac River through the purchase of wetlands.

Freedom Lawn Campaign

Organization: 
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Amount: 
23 000.00
Description: 
To support the work of the Freedom Lawn Campaign to educate users of 'traditional'  chemical lawn care about the harmful environmental and health effects of pesticides and fertilizers, and encourage a switch to organic lawn care methods that are safe for the natural environment and people.

Quinnipiac River Watershed Association Action Plan

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
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.

Land Use Intermunicipal Agreement

Organization: 
Rex Development (formerly known as South Central CT Regional Econ. Develop. Corp)
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Amount: 
8 000.00
Description: 
To support the development and adoption of an intermunicipal agreement with the lower river towns regarding land use guidelines and tax sharing.

Organic Lawn Care Program

Organization: 
Connecticut Northeast Organic Farmers Organization
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Amount: 
14 000.00
Description: 
To support the creation and development of the Organic Land and Turf Handbook for school, municipal, and commercial groundskeepsers to manage lawns and turf without the use synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

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