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Consultants from the Planometrics company will be paid $125 per hour to complete the work, which is expected to be done by the end of the month. The contract specifies that the fee for the work will not exceed $5,000. via Company hired to complete Plan of Conservation and Development – The Register Citizen. As part of Earth Day 2010 celebrations, the Ridgefield Action Committee for the Environment (RACE) is offering backyard compost bins and rain barrels for sale. Order forms are available at Practically Green on Catoonah Street and Ancona’s Market in Branchville. via RACE offers compost bins at half price. I am not an ambitious person, and I am not particularly interested in politics or government service. But I am a person who cares deeply about the place where I live and work, and so, when I was asked to consider joining Middletown’s Conservation Commission, I took on the challenge with little hesitation. It is not a very large commitment at just one meeting per month. via KAREN SWARTZ: Why be involved with city’s Conservation Commission? – The Middletown Press. MERIDEN – Planning on municipal downtown projects is moving forward, and the crumbling Factory H building could be demolished by this summer.Of the various projects highlighted in Mayor Michael S. Rohde’s “bow tie” development map, Factory H will receive the most visible attention in the near future. The map depicts the city’s major development efforts in the shape of a bow tie comprising the redevelopment of the Hub site, the creation of a transit center on State Street, the redevelopment of the Factory H property and the eventual relocation of the Mills Memorial Apartments residents and subsequent demolition of the towers. via What’s going on in downtown Meriden?. The draft plan — well along, but not finalized — will be presented at a public meeting next Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 in the lower level conference room of town hall. One of many maps in the plan shows water resources. Green is public drinking-water watershed; violet is significant aquifers (underground reservoirs); white is river watersheds (non-drinking); brown spot is ‘impaired groundwater’— the old town dump; and red line is the Norwalk River, considered ‘impaired.’ via Ridgefield’s ‘town plan,’ a map for the future, will be topic of Tuesday hearing.
via Meet the Beetles | middletowneye. The newly renovated Byram Shubert Library was the site of the recent Greenwich Green and Clean 17th annual awards celebration honoring those people, businesses and organizations that have made a difference by improving the environment of Greenwich. The Greenwich Green and Clean Annual Award for Beautification of Public Space went to Gary Kalan, for coordinating his neighbors to adopt an unplanted traffic island at Owenoke Way and Wesskum Wood Road. via Group gives awards for being ‘green and clean’ | Greenwich Post. New Haven, Conn. — Most Americans like the idea of conservation, but few practice it in their everyday lives, according to the results of a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities. A majority of Americans say that it is “very important” or “somewhat important” to turn off unneeded lights (92 percent), to lower the thermostat in winter (83 percent), and to use public transportation or a carpool (73 percent), among other conservation behaviors. Continue reading Report: Americans Favor Conservation, But Few Practice It MILFORD — Work on the Walnut Beach boardwalk is under way, after the project had been marred by numerous delays. The state had approved funds for the $1.9 million project in 2006. Construction almost started in 2008, but nests of piping plovers, a species of bird protected by state and federal regulations, were found in the proposed path of the boardwalk. via Walnut Beach boardwalk work finally begins – The New Haven Register. The Ridgefield Planning and Zoning Commission will have an informational public meeting to get comments from townspeople on the Draft Plan of Conservation and Development Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ridgefield Town Hall, lower level conference room. Every so often somebody says something that makes me want to stand up and cheer while other people want to throw rocks. My new hero is Anne Roberts-Pierson, president of the Avalonia Land Conservancy, who put elements of a hostile crowd in its place the other night in Stonington during a forum that highlighted one of my favorite topics: the so-called rights of people vs. the need to protect wildlife. First, some background. via Birds vs. People on Sandy Point | The Day. Jewett City, Conn. — A group of landscape architecture students from the University of Connecticut will spend part of the semester drawing up plans to revitalize Griswold’s downtown after a meeting with residents next month. via UConn students take on revitalization of Griswold downtown – Norwich Bulletin. The Conservation Commission/Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency is expected to vote on its new watercourses regulations Thursday. One proposal would expand the commission’s review area from 100 feet to 150 feet within four watersheds and along the Connecticut River. A second change would ask developers in those watersheds to have no more than 10 percent of impervious surfaces, such as driveways and roofs, in their proposals. The final change would allow the town to impose and collect fines for any violations of regulations. via Conservation Commission Expected To Vote On Wetland Amendments – Courant.com. There is a proposal to allow the Vo-Ag students at Southington High School to use part of the property to grow and maintain apple trees. via Historic orchard could be revived | Record-Journal. The Eastern Connecticut Conservation District (ECCD) has hired Sarah Lamagna as a natural resources specialist and Niantic River Watershed coordinator. Portions of East Lyme, Montville, Salem, and Waterford are in the 20,000-acre watershed. via Conservation Group Hires New Coordinator | The Day. George Schaller — who has lived in Roxbury for 35 years when he's not setting up camp on the Serengeti Plain of Tanzania or the Tibetan Plateau — is considered to be the one of the greatest field biologists and wildlife conservationists in the history of the environmental movement. via Connecticut man talks of the need for conservation – Connecticut Post. STRATFORD — The anticipated sale of Long Beach West to the federal government was killed Thursday by joint agreement of the town and a nonprofit land agency, 15 months after voters overwhelmingly approved sale of the sweeping waterfront property for at least $10 million. via Long Beach sales deal is a washout – GreenwichTime. The state Department of Environmental Protection and the Connecticut Forest and Park Association are coordinating the efforts of state forest organizations to create a comprehensive forest resource plan for the state, as is required by federal law. The meeting at Holcomb Farm will provide a forum for citizens and forest groups to contribute their ideas. via 4 Meetings To Focus On State Forest Plan – Courant.com. Remaining cottages on Long Beach West, some of which burned during fires in March 2008 and March 2009, are scheduled to be removed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service beginning next month. The removal has no bearing on the sale of the island to Fish & Wildlife, which could face another referendum. via Removal of cottages on the horizon | Stratford Star. Sandy Point won’t be going to the dogs. That was abundantly clear at the public forum Wednesday night on the Avalonia Land Conservancy’s decision to partner with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to manage the island nature preserve in Little Narragansett Bay. via New enforcement at Sandy Point | The Day. |
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