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As more beds open along eastern shoreline, shellfish industry better poised to grow
As more beds open along eastern shoreline, shellfish industry better poised to grow By Mary Biekert Day staff writer Published February 22. 2020 8:27PM | Updated February 25. 2020 10:04AM Local shellfishermen and experts say the opening and upgrading of several shellfish beds along the eastern shoreline is cause for celebration, with the industry now in a better…
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Understanding Long Island Sound’s ‘dead zones’
Understanding Long Island Sound’s ‘dead zones’ by Elaina Hancock, University of Connecticut FEBRUARY 5, 2020 For the past 25 years, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection have been diligently collecting water samples each month in Long Island Sound (LIS). Recently, the data have been compiled and analyzed, by UConn…
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Shellfish commission moves forward on Niantic River scallop restoration plan
Shellfish commission moves forward on Niantic River scallop restoration plan By Mary Biekert – The Day – Published 1/01/20 East Lyme – With scallops largely absent from the Niantic River in recent decades, the Waterford-East Lyme Shellfish Commission has formed an agreement to purchase juvenile scallops from a local commercial shellfish farmer in an effort…
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New Septic Systems Show Positive Impact On Long Island Water Quality
New Septic Systems Show Positive Impact On Long Island Water Quality By DALVIN ABOAGYE • NOV 12, 2019 WSHU Public Radio Suffolk County says new septic systems are working to filter out nitrogen in the local water supply. The East Hampton Star reports that the combined use of these low-nitrogen septic systems has drastically cut down the levels…
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Public-Private Partnership Seeds 100,000 Oysters in Niantic River
Public-Private Partnership Seeds 100,000 Oysters in Niantic River CT Examiner Published on November 27, 2019 in East Lyme/Environment by Christopher McDermott EAST LYME — Shellfish experts deposited about 100,000 juvenile oysters into the Niantic River on Saturday, as part of a $10,000 public-private partnership plan by the Waterford-East Lyme Shellfish Commission to bolster the river’s oyster population in an effort to…
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Niantic River Headwaters Community Forest conservation complete
By Staff reportsPosted Dec 5, 2019 at 5:00 PM The New England Forestry Foundation recently completed conservation of 200 acres of critical habitat at its Niantic River Headwaters Community Forest in East Lyme. This project was undertaken in two phases: NEFF first conserved 166 acres of the forest in 2017, and then protected an adjacent 34-acre parcel in 2019. Final…
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Break Out The Nets, Scallop Season In The Niantic River OK’d
After learning that there’s enough scallops in the Niantic River, the shellfish commission approved a Dec. 15 – Jan. 15, 2020 season. By Ellyn Santiago, Patch Staff Nov 26, 2019 9:54 pm ET | Updated Nov 26, 2019 9:58 pm ET The Niantic River in summer. (Ellyn Santiago/Patch) EAST LYME, CT — What otherwise might have been a…
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Fish Habitat Restoration in Waterford
Waterford group to remove dam to allow alewives to spawn Waterford — Alewife Cove has been difficult on its namesake fish for decades. A dam installed in the 1970s that blocks the cove just north of Niles Hill Road prevented access to alewife herring spawning waters. So Edward Lamoureux, co-chairman of the Alewife Cove Conservancy, likes to…
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NRWPP Update Workshops
NRWC held two workshops on Tuesday, October 29th to kick off the watershed plan update. Workshops were held at the Chesterfield Fire Department in Montville from 2 – 4 pm and the Waterford Town Hall from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. A wide variety of stakeholders attended both workshops, ranging from watershed residents to municipal and…
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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…