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Safe Grounds Campaign

Organization: 
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
19 200.00
Description: 
To support the continuing and extension of the successful 2005 Safe Grounds Campaign reducing non-point source pollution from lawn pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.

The Partnership furthered its Safe Ground campaign, which included public education and legislative activity.

Wharton Brook Mercury Contamination Research

Organization: 
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
18 446.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to conduct mercury contamination research at Wharton Brook in Quinnipiac River system. Research activities include measuring mercury in water, benthic macroinvertebrates, and fish along the length of thw Wharton Brook and its tributaries.

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The Clean Rivers Project w/Plainville Conservation Commission

Organization: 
Farmington River Watershed Association, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
2 000.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support implementation of informational and educational efforts and activities advocating for pesticide use reduction. These efforts will focus on the 80 property owners whose properties abut the Quinnipiac River in Plainville, CT. The activities will include 2 river clean-ups, coordination of a fishing derby, Earth Day Extravaganza, promotion and advocacy of Freedom Lawn Initiative, and a Tomasso Nature Park clean-up. (see grant notes)

Eighteen of 58 parcels along the Quinnipiac River and 13 of 33 parcels along the Pequabuck River joined the Clean Rivers Project and are now pesticide free.

Safe Grounds Campaign

Organization: 
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to continue support for the Safe Grounds Campaign to reduce non-point source pollution from lawn pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.

Extensively documented successful transitions to natural land care in Cheshire. Spinoffs of the Safe Grounds Campaign include promotion of the use of municipal leaf compost as an inexpensive resource for improving municipal soil, as well as the promotion of research on the use of a bacillus that causes milky spore disease and destroys insect larvae that eat grass roots.

Measurements of copper levels and speciation in the Quinnipiac River

Organization: 
Yale University - Grant and Contract Administration
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
12 000.00
Description: 
To support the measurement of copper concentration and bioavailability throughout the Quinnipiac River system and its tributaries.  

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Assess the condition of macrofaunal communities in New Haven Harbor

Organization: 
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
13 500.00
Description: 
To support the assessment of  the condition of macrofaunal communities in New Haven Harbor relative to selected environmental factors and the structure of the Harbor's benthic habitats, and compare these results to available previous information to assess any long-term changes.  

Assess the condition of macrofaunal communities in New Haven Harbor

Organization: 
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
13 500.00
Description: 
To support the assessment of  the condition of macrofaunal communities in New Haven Harbor relative to selected environmental factors and the structure of the Harbor's benthic habitats, and compare these results to available previous information to assess any long-term changes.  

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Educate fishers on safe consumption of fish

Organization: 
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
13 000.00
Description: 
To educate fishers on the safe consumption of fish from the Quinnipiac River and to work with the State Department of Environmental Protection to ensure fish signage is posted in fishing areas in common languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, Kmer, Lao and Vietnamese.

The group spoke to 60 fishers about safe fishing and fish consumption. Characteristics and fishing habits of the fishers were also determined,

Fate of benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) on the behavior of aquatic organisms

Organization: 
Quinnipiac University
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
5 000.00
Description: 
To support a study to characterize the fate of benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) in the watershed areas of the Quinnipiac and Mill Rivers which empty into Long Island Sound in an effort to study the fate of BBP on the behavior of aquatic organisms.

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Assess the condition of macrofaunal communities in New Haven Harbor

Organization: 
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
11 900.00
Description: 
To support the assessment of the condition of macrofaunal communities in New Haven Harbor relative to selected environmental factors and the structure of the Harbor's benthic habitats. A comparison of the results will be made to available previous information to assess any long-term changes.

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