Public Education

Land Acquisition, Trail Development, Public Outreach and Education

Organization: 
Friends of the Linear Trail, Inc.
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 21, 2002
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: 
Thursday, May 15, 2003
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: 
Thursday, May 15, 2003
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: 
Thursday, May 15, 2003
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!

Quinnipiac River Watershed Partnership

Organization: 
Elm City Parks Conservancy
Date Issued: 
Thursday, May 15, 2003
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: 
Thursday, April 15, 2004
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: 
Thursday, April 15, 2004
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.

Quinnipiac River Discovery

Organization: 
Elm City Parks Conservancy
Date Issued: 
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To support an education and awareness program for youth and the broader community.

Yale University-Short Course in River Processes (4)

Organization: 
Yale University Grant and Contract Administration
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 17, 2005
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.

Quinnipiac River Watershed Association Action Plan

Organization: 
Quinnipiac River Watershed Association
Date Issued: 
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Amount: 
10 000.00
Description: 
To support the grassroots organization identified in the Quinnipac Watershed Action Plan and continue to organize volunteers toward implementaing the plan's actions.  To harness the combined efforts of a large pool of citizen volunteers, clubs, civic roups, shcools and businesses, which hav eparticipated at least one year in a QRWA river activity.  To use our conservation, recreation and education events and programs to increase our volunteer ranks.  To continue to train and guide these volunteers toward reducing the point source and nonpoint source pollution that enters our waterways.  These volunteers will educate landowners and builders whose activities have a direct impact on water quality and habitat health in tributaries and main rivers.

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