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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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July 30, 2018
On July 25th and 26th, NRWC, with the assistance of the East Lyme School Department, the Department of Public Works and volunteers from the MIllstone Environmental Stewardship Team, installed a 480-square foot rain garden at the East Lyme High School. Rain gardens catch rain water from hard surfaces like driveways, parking lots and rooftops and…
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Feb. 23, 2018
Report card on coastal health ranks Sound’s shoreline habitats as ‘fair’ A group of federal and Connecticut scientists have rated the overall health of the Long Island Sound’s coastal habitats in Connecticut as “fair” in a new report based on scores measuring their size, connectivity, resilience and species diversity. Click here to read this article by Martha Shanahan of…