Public Education

Various programs

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
To support volunteer monitoring, Stream Walk problem assessment, regulatory research, grassroots advocacy, education - upper and lower river, and general public education.

Land Acquisition, Trail Development, Public Outreach and Education

Organization: 
Friends of the Linear Trail, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To continue efforts in support of the Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Project and the development of a greenway corridor along the Quinnpiac River Watershed.  Activities will include further land acquisition, trail development, public outreach and education with regard to environmental and recreational aspects of the 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.

Quinnipiac River Business Outreach Program

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Partnership
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To reach out to businesses close to the Quinnipiac River to educate those who have not registered or are not in compliance with the commercial stormwater general permit.  This outreach will also engage businesses close to the river in voluntary programs of good stormwater management practices.

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.

Quinnipiac River Watershed Partnership

Organization: 
Elm City Parks Conservancy
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
8 000.00
Description: 
To educate the community about the effects of pollution, to increase access to the Quinnipiac River, to empower the residents to right environmental wrongs and to enhance appreciation for parkland and its preservation.

Chemical lawn pesticides and fertilizer study

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Partnership
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
20 000.00
Description: 
To support a before and after pilot study of a residential neighborhood within the Quinnipiac River Watershed after it has participated in an education program that encourages the use of organic lawn care agents versus chemical lawn care agents.

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.

Yale University-Short Course in River Processes (4)

Organization: 
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
7 500.00
Description: 
To offer a short course in river processes to local members of conservation/inland wetland commissions and environmrntal activists.  The course will cover the basic hydrologic, geomorphic, chemical and biological processes that govern stream exosystems, and how they are perturbed by human activities.  Participants will receive the scientific tools that they need in order to understand and critically evaluate environemntal data on the Q River.

Course evaluations were received from 16 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.

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