Last week, Save the Sound partnered with the Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County for our third third event engaging volunteers in restoring the Sound’s submerged aquatic vegetation – eelgrass. Friday’s event took place at the Clinton Town Marina.

A total of 2,450 people picked up 16,310 pounds of trash from 57 miles of Connecticut riverfronts and beaches in 2012 in activities coordinated by Save the Sound, a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment, the organization said Monday. Save the Sound helped to coordinate 57 coastal cleanup activities across the state this year,
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Save the Sound, Connecticut coordinator of the annual International Coastal Cleanup, recently partnered with the Darien Land Trust for a cleanup event along the Noroton River. Volunteers gathered to remove and catalog trash from the river bank as part of a global effort to rid the world’s waterways of unsightly debris, which is dangerous to
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Save the Sound appealed an order that allows the Great Neck sewage district on Long Island to continue polluting the section of the Long Island Sound between Farifield, Nassau and Westchester Counties, the group announced in a press release Thursday. For more on this story, visit: Save the Sound Appeals Order Allowing Excess Nitrogen Dumping
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Curt Johnson and Chris Cryder of CFE/Save the Sound have embarked on a week-long journey traveling Long Island Sound by sailboat. The two will dock in locations including Bridgeport, Darien, Mamaroneck, Oyster Bay, and Port Jefferson, to meet with local advocates and elected officials to talk about Long Island Sound and the current issues facing our region’s gem.

Last week, Save the Sound testified publicly in favor of the New Haven regional sewer authority investing $50 million in sewage treatment plant improvements in New Haven. Part of the environmental justice is providing clean water, safe swimming, and safe boating and clamming for all people, including under served communities like New Haven. By cleaning up New Haven’s harbor, we clean up the entire Sound.

Volunteers planted Joe-Pye weed and bone set at Duck Pond in Edgewood Park in New Haven’s Westville section. They staked holes in the mud to plant the shallow water plants in the marshy meadow of the restored Edgewood Park Duck Pond. Click on this environmental headline for more on this story.

Today Curt Johnson, program director for Connecticut Fund for the Environment and Save the Sound, received the 2012 Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s New England Office. Curt was selected the award for his work as Co-Chair of the Long Island Sound Study’s Citizens Advisory Committee. The CAC is a volunteer organization
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Utilizing Groupon Grassroots’ collective action model through April 22, Groupon subscribers can pledge support for the Save the Sound initiative in increments of $12, with each $300 providing the funding needed to buy 25 plants for a habitat restoration planting to help keep Long Island Sound a place of recreation and enjoyment for all to enjoy. Click on this environmental headline for more on this story.

“Green infrastructure techniques like rain gardens, permeable pavement and rain barrels are common sense ways to naturally filter stormwater and reduce the amount of harmful sewage discharged into the Long Island Sound, and do so less expensively than traditional techniques,” said New Haven Mayor John DeStefano.

“In sending a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requesting to vacate their certificates, Broadwater has signaled that their proposed floating gas plant is finally dead,” said Leah Schmalz, director of legal and legislative affairs for Save the Sound.

After years of opposition, protests, petitions, legal wrangling, and partnering with federal and state officials on both sides of Long Island Sound, “the health and safety of our Sound will not be compromised by the proposed industrial complex.” Click on this environmental headline for more on this story from Save the Sound.

Save the Sound is hosting their annual Facebook photo contest. Contestants are asked to submit shoreline photos to the Save the Sound Facebook page or via e-mail to kbroatch@savethesound.org. Photos will be accepeted now through Dec. 31 with voting opening on Jan. 1 and running through Jan. 8 (photo with the most “likes” on Facebooks
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Save the Sound, the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Long Island Sound Study (CAC), and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) discussed the SoundVision Action Plan, a two-year action plan for the restoration and preservation of Long Island Sound at City Point Dock in New Haven. They were also joined by State Senators Martin Looney and Toni Harp, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., and representatives from Sound School and Schooner Inc.

Save the Sound and Environment Committee Co-Chair State Senator Ed Meyer (D-Guilford) released the following statement today in observance of Long Island Sound Day. Earlier in the day, Save the Sound held a coastal cleanup of Long Wharf Nature Preserve in New Haven as part of their Long Island Sound Day celebration.

“Ninety-one gross diapers,” Riverkeeper Peter Davis announced. Add to that four rugs, 27 tires, umpteen bags of household garbage, several mattresses, and a nice beige corner chair that someone had rolled down the hill to the margin of Beaver Creek. Davis and assistant David Burgess collected all that in a single week’s cleanup of riverine
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Save the Sound hosted a planting today, April 2, 2011, at the site of its Bride Brook restoration project in Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme, to mark the completion of the restoration project, the construction of which began in 2009.

Save the Sound was joined by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. Joe Courtney, Connecticut DEP Commissioner Daniel Esty, East Lyme First Selectman Paul Formica and more than 75 volunteers who planted native vegetation to help protect and maintain the dune system surrounding the salt marsh habitat at Bride Brook.

Save the Sound has urged the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee to pass S.B. 1006, which would provide new authorizations for the Clean Water Fund.

Please call your Congressperson today and ask them to authorize a continuation of 2010 funding levels to Long Island Sound.

Groton – The UConn Avery Point Scuba Club and SECONN divers are holding a beach cleanup at Eastern Point Beach in Groton at 10 a.m. on Saturday, part of the 25th anniversary of the International Coastal Cleanup. Save the Sound has organized 41 beach cleanups along the Connecticut shoreline from Greenwich to Groton. Staff members
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This weekend, Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. join others for a beach cleanup at Taylor Farm Park, 45 Calf Pasture Beach Rd, Norwalk, CT, where the Live Green CT festival will feature live music, environmental and green business exhibitors, kids’ activities, and presentations by speakers from solar installers
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