Contamination

Storm drain stenciling art, data collection, education, and outreach program

Organization: 
ART25
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Amount: 
4 500.00
Description: 
To support a summer employment program for New Haven youth that will engage participants and community members in reducing the pollution in the Quinnipiac by stormwater run-off through a storm drain stenciling art, data collection, education, and outreach program.

Lower Quinnipiac Access, Education and Advocacy activities

Organization: 
River Advocates of South Central Connecticut
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
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.

Industrial pollutants in water and on indigenous fish populations

Organization: 
Quinnipiac University
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Amount: 
21 000.00
Description: 
To support identification, characterization and assessment of industrial pollutants in water and on indigenous fish populations in the Quinnipiac River.

Marsh migration at the Quinnipiac Meadows Preserve

Organization: 
Yale University
Date Issued: 
Monday, March 27, 2017
Amount: 
14 000.00
Description: 
To support the monitoring of marsh surface elevations as well as the salinity and vegetation in one lobe of the marsh, and to support preliminary analysis of marsh migration at the Quinnipiac Meadows Preserve.

Measuring mercury in fish from ponds spanning the Quinnipiac River

Organization: 
Yale University
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Amount: 
19 000.00
Description: 
To support measuring mercury in fish from ponds spanning the Quinnipiac River's watershed to see where it exceeds safety thresholds.

Trace sources of endocrine disruptors and toxicity

Organization: 
University of New Haven
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Amount: 
12 000.00
Description: 
To support the study of several sites along the Quinnipiac River to trace sources of endocrine disruptors and toxicity.

Study of copper uptake efficiency of various ulvoid species

Organization: 
University of New Haven
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Amount: 
10 500.00
Description: 
To support the study of copper uptake efficiency of various ulvoid species in order to pinpoint potential candidates for bioremediation of heavy metals at marine and brackish water sites along the Quinnipiac River.

Lower Quinnipiac Access & Advocacy activities

Organization: 
River Advocates of South Central CT
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
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.

Identification, characterization and assessment of industrial pollutants

Organization: 
Quinnipiac University
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Amount: 
21 000.00
Description: 
to support identification, characterization and assessment of industrial pollutants in Wallingford and North Haven with an emphasis on the pollutant's impact to indigenous fish populations in the Quinnipiac River.

Study of the risk of runoff from artificial turf fields into the Quinnipiac River's watershed

Organization: 
Yale University
Date Issued: 
Friday, March 25, 2016
Amount: 
16 700.00
Description: 
To support the study of the risk of runoff from artificial turf fields into the Quinnipiac River's watershed.

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