Environmental Advocacy

Public access on the lower Quinnipiac River, permit advocacy and bacteria monitoring

Organization: 
River Advocates of South Central CT
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Amount: 
17 000.00
Description: 
to support the creation of public access on the lower Quinnipiac River, as well as to support advocating on state and local permits affecting water quality and quantity, and carry out bacteria monitoring.

Coliform bacteria testing and permit advocacy

Organization: 
River Advocates of South Central Connecticut
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Amount: 
16 577.00
Description: 
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.

Coliform bacteria testing program and advocacy for state and local permits affecting water quality

Organization: 
River Advocates of South Central CT
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Amount: 
15 000.00
Description: 
to support a coliform bacteria testing program that uses trained volunteers to collect and a professional lab to analyze to support a coliform bacteria testing program that uses trained volunteers to collect and a professional lab to analyze bacteria in stream and river segments of the Quinnipiac Watershed, and to support advocacy for state and local permits affecting water quality of the Quinnipiac River.

Quinnipiac Impaired Waters Monitoring and Advocacy programming.

Organization: 
River Advocates of South Central CT
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Amount: 
15 769.00
Description: 
to support the monitoring of state level permits affecting water quality, and then support water quality testing of the Quinnipiac River as well as recruitment and training of a permits observer corps to monitor local land use commissions and screen for testimony local land use permits.

Be the Solution to Pollution project

Organization: 
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Amount: 
13 000.00
Description: 
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.

School lawn pesticide ban outreach and expansion and website enhancement

Organization: 
The Watershed Partnership, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
to support outreach, education and advocacy of the current school lawn pesticide ban and activities associated with the expansion of the ban to include all Connecticut parks, playgrounds, municipal playing fields and town greens, as well as the enhancement of the organization's website.

Environmental advocacy

Organization: 
Mill River Watershed Association of South Central Connecticut Inc.
Date Issued: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Amount: 
15 000.00
Description: 
To support environmental advocacy, particularly through raising awareness of new federal phosphorus requirements for the lower Quinnipiac River.

Fostering awareness of environmental issues of the Quinnipiac River

Organization: 
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Date Issued: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Amount: 
7 000.00
Description: 
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.

Evaluation of abnormal reproductive development of the blue mussel

Organization: 
Yale University
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Amount: 
10 500.00
Description: 
To support water testing of the Quinnipiac estuary and New Haven Harbor for contaminants and evaluation of abnormal reproductive development of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) by endocrine disrupting compounds.

Advocating and completion of the Lower Quinnipiac River Canoeable Trail and the Town of North Haven canoe launch

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
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.

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