Environmental Advocacy

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: 
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.

Comprehensive Multi-disciplinary Watershed

Organization: 
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To establish a comprehensive multi- disciplinary watershed planning initiative to improve the quality of the environment in the QR Watershed.

Course in River Processes

Organization: 
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To offer a 2-day short course in river processes to local environmental activists 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 activity.  Participants will receive the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environmental data on the Quinnpiac River.

Course evaluations were submitted by 17 of the 20 participants and were positive overall on factors including lectures, field trips, readings, problem sets, whether the course met students' expectations and whether students would recommend the course to others.

Four-Day Workshop

Organization: 
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
3 369.00
Description: 
To work with selected leaders from Quinnipiac River Watershed communities to improve the land use decision-making process and control non-point source pollution.  The proposed program is for a 4-day workshop, emphasizing the regulatory power to make wise land use decisions, and presenting collaborative decision making techniques.

Course on river processes

Organization: 
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Date Issued: 
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.

Municipal Regulation Program

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Partnership
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To work directly with municipalities in the Quinnipiac river watershed not only to educate municipal officials, but also to follow up and help them improve municipal regulations that affect water quality in the Quinnipiac and watershed.  Primary target for this project are municipal CEO's, Planning and Zoning Commissions, Inland Wetland Commissions, and Town Councils.

Course on river processes

Organization: 
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
7 390.00
Description: 
To support a short course in river processes to local environmental activists and municipal officials that will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical and biological processes that govern stream ecosystems and how they are perturbed by human activities.

Annual Monitoring

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
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.

Highlights of QRWA's work over the past year includge grassroots organizing, education, advocacy and conservation. QRWA accomplished its objective of harnessing its largest ever pool of volunteers, local clubs, civic groups and businesses for restoration and outreach activities.

Quinnipiac River Discovery

Organization: 
Elm City Parks Conservancy
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To support an education and awareness program for youth and the broader community.

Speakers put thought and effort into their programs, adding to the educational material offered by QRD as a whole. Saturday programs had the highest attendance. The 3 staff proved highly competent, but there was a recommendation to add one more staff person to help maintain safety.

UNH QRiver Watershed Geographic Information System Project

Organization: 
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
17 500.00
Description: 
To support a graduate student that will work with the PI and others (e.g. at the RGP) to maintain the QRW (Quinniipiac River Watershed) GIS(Georgraphic Information System) and the related website and to conduct GIS based analyses that focus on the lower river and its surroundings.
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