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Massachusetts Oyster Project  Excellent Study on Oysters and Water Shows They Do Improve Water Quality by Filtering and Removing Nitrogen (Click here to connect to this blog)

About 2½ hours after launching his small boat in the Niantic River Thursday, Lewis Bull returned to the state boat launch in Waterford with a bucketful of oysters, a dozen or so quahogs and just four scallops.

Beginning in 2013, the lobstering season in Long Island Sound will be closed for 11 weeks in the fall to reduce the catch and give the depleted shellfish population time to rebuild.

The Niantic River Watershed Committee is continuing to move forward with efforts to address water-quality problems in the river, convening its first Board of Directors to oversee monitoring and public education projects.

The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national nonprofit conservation organization, and the Town of East Lyme announced today that TPL has reached an agreement to purchase 301 acres known as the Darrow property for conservation, drinking water, and watershed protection.

A legislative committee unanimously approved rules Tuesday for the amounts of water that must be released from dams to maintain ecologically healthy flows in all the state’s streams.

Ten years ago, concerned with the condition of the Niantic River and rumors of development plans in the Oswegatchie Hills, Grimsey decided after meeting with The Day’s editorial staff that he and friends should start a grassroots environmental non-profit organization, Save the River-Save the Hills, Inc.

State of the Niantic Watershed Meeting – Friday Sept. 23, 2011, 9:30 AM – 1 PM,  at Nett Hall at Camp Niantic, Smith Street, East Lyme, CT. Please join us as we invite multiple stakeholders from across the region to discuss the state of the Niantic River Watershed, including current activities underway by the many…

Click here to read the March/April 2011 issue of Sound Bytes – News from the Long Island Sound Study

Water-quality conditions were assessed to evaluate potential effects of road-deicer applications on stream-water quality in four watersheds along Interstate 95 (I-95) in southeastern Connecticut from November 1, 2008, through September 30, 2009.