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NRWC Receives Funding From 2019 Long Island Futures Fund Grant Program
The Niantic River Watershed Committee is excited to announce that we have received funding from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Long Island Sound Futures Fund grant program to conduct the Healthy Lawns, Healthy River outreach campaign in the Niantic River watershed beginning in the spring of 2020. Read more about the award here. To…
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NRWC Receives Grant from Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
NRWC Watershed Coordinator Judy Rondeau receives a check from Susan Gonzales of the Dominion Energy/Millstone Environmental Lab. The funding, which was awarded by the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation’s Environmental Stewardship grant program, will support NRWC programs, including public education and outreach, water quality monitoring and water quality improvement projects. NRWC will use a portion of…
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Revival of Waterford solar plan reason for concern
Save the River-Save the Hills would like to inform the public about an ongoing threat to the water quality of the Niantic River and two of its major tributaries (Oil Mill Brook and Stony Brook) in Waterford. The developer of a proposed solar array installation, which was “denied without prejudice” by the Connecticut Siting Council…
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Ripple effect: Cornell helps restore Long Island’s shellfish
Ed Warner pushes his boat off a sliver of Long Island waterfront that’s been in his family since the 1800s. He is the fifth generation of Warner baymen – the locals’ term for fisherman – to head out to eastern Shinnecock Bay in search of Mercenaria mercenaria, the hard clam. “Clamming and fishing, they’re in your…
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Niantic River Watershed Protection Plan Update
The Niantic River Watershed Committee (NRWC) would like to invite you to participate in the development of an updated watershed management plan for the Niantic River Watershed. For the next 12 months, the project stakeholders will work collaboratively with NRWC and Fuss & O’Neill through participation in two workshops and the review of an update…
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April 2, 2019
Give a man a fish East Lyme — The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s Quinebaug Hatchery employees stocked Latimer Brook with trout Thursday. Click here to read this story by Sean D. Elliot at The Day.
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August 16, 2018
NOAA SCIENTISTS MONITORING CONNECTICUT AQUACULTURE Julie Rose and Renee Mercaldo-Allen, NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Milford Laboratory Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center laboratory in Milford have been working for the last two summers in Long Island Sound to document environmental benefits provided by Connecticut’s oyster…
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August 13, 2018
Niantic River Watershed Protection Plan Update The Niantic River Watershed Protection Plan (NRWPP) is twelve years old and is ready for an update! NRWC has received funding from the Clean Water Act Section 319 Nonpoint Source grant program through CT DEEP, the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut and Kleinschmidt Foundation to conduct the Plan update.…
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August 13, 2018
Living Ecosystem Project Pamphlets The East Lyme Public Trust Foundation has produced three informational pamphlets, “Living Ecosystem of Niantic Bay Beaches.” The pamphlets provide information about three important features of Niantic Bay beach ecosystems – shells, seaweeds and beach plants. To download these pamphlets and learn about other projects being conducted by the East Lyme…
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August 13, 2018
The US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) Southern New England Coastal Program in partnership with USGS and the University of Rhode Island Data Center have released a report on efforts to map submerged aquatic vegetation, including eelgrass, in Long Island Sound. The goals of the 2017 Long Island Sound survey were to: 1) conduct a…