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Kids Explore!, Kids Do!, Kids Teach!

Organization: 
Solar Youth
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
8 000.00
Description: 
To educate New Haven's youth about the natural and social systems that affect the Quinnipiac River.  To design and execute a community service action project that addresses an issue for youth to identify and teach what they have learned and accomplished to others; thereby building a constituency of urban advocates for the Quinnipiac River.  This project is called Kids Explore!, Kids Do!, Kids Teach!

Six youth learned about the history, ecology and uses of the Quinnipiac River, created a poster discouraging littering, and created a River Bingo game.

Mercury Contamination

Organization: 
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
7 500.00
Description: 
To measure contamination along the Quinnipiac River and in oysters of the New Haven Harbor and evaluate the extent of mercury pollution and  identify sources and hotspots.

Yale University Project to Measure Methyl Mercury Contamination

Organization: 
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
14 500.00
Description: 
To support the measurement of methyl mercury contamination in the Quinnipiac River and the Oysters in New Haven Harbor. The study will evaluate the extent of methylmercury pollution and  help to identify sources and hotspots.

Freedom Lawn Campaign

Organization: 
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Date Issued: 
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.

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

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.

Elevation Change & Toxic Organics in the Quinnipiac Tidal Marshes

Organization: 
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
14 294.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support the continuation of measuring elevation change and water levels in the Quinnipiac River marshes in efforts to understand the rate and causes  of marsh drowning (conversion to mudflat) that has been observed there.

The project produced several observations: parts of the marshes appear to be experiencing substantial subsidence; internal recycling of organic sediment may be a source of material to the marsh surface; water levels are controlled in part by watershed runoff; and concentrations of PAHs and PCBs in sediments are quite high.

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.

Landowners Education

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
Funds are requested to support the implementation of landowner and youh education about reducing non-point pollution.

QRWA used landowner education and public access in its Friends of the Quinnipiac campaign, aiming to motivate landowners and land developers to protect the river from pollution by following best land management practices.

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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Safe Grounds Campaign

Organization: 
Watershed Partnership, Inc
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
18 000.00
Description: 
To support the Safe Grounds Campaign which helps reduce non-point source pollution from lawn pesticides and synthetic fertilizers in the Quinnipiac River watershed.  

As a result of the Partnership’s advocacy, the Connecticut legislature extended and strengthened the pesticide ban to include all day care facilities in Connecticut. Additionally, the Partnership collaborated with the DEP and NOFA in three compost workshops for municipal officials. The Partnership also worked with the staff at the Connecticut Governor’ Residence to convert the lawns to organic care.

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