SB 832, An Act Concerning the Protection of Inland Wetlands and Watercourses, was tabled at Monday’s Planning & Development Committee meeting with many House Democrats still on the fence. Time is short. Please call the following legislators today and ask them to vote SB 832 out of the committee by Thursday’s deadline.
The Pioneer Valley Planning Commission is seeking volunteers to collect samples of the Connecticut River for water quality testing this summer. Click this environmental headline for more information on how to get involved.
The installation of a grease trap and rerouting of drainage pipes from Stew Leonard’s at Calf Pasture into the city’s sanitary sewer system will begin shortly. On Monday night, the Board of Es-timate and Taxation approved a special capital appropriation of $75,000 to install the grease trap, a holding tank and pump system outside Stew
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The CT DEP and the Candlewood Lake Authority have announced that training is available for people interested in volunteering their time to monitor boat launches on Candlewood Lake for the presence of the invasive plants and animals, such as zebra mussels.
Everyone knows that flooding is a serious issue. The town is in denial about deteriorating water quality, and keeps throwing relatively small dollars (compared to $100 to $150 million) at studies and engineers. At some point, the town will be hit with a huge fine and major infrastructure repair bills.
I keep reading about a proposed storm water authority and the roof and parking lot tax resulting from its creation. I think New Haven’s mayor has a very hard job and I am reluctant to criticize him. However, sometimes he has bad ideas.
Cresting rivers and rising flood waters are forcing many Connecticut residents out of their homes, washing cars and homes into rivers along the Pomperaug River and elsewhere in Connecticut.
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.
With warming temperatures, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey want to find out how much salt and other material dumped on the roadways is getting into our waterways.
Nonprofits, municipalities and schools in the Connecticut River watershed in Connecicut and Massachusetts are invited to submit applications for grants to fund projects that will result in improved river water quality, ecosystem health, public awareness or recreational access to the river.
The Connecticut River Watershed Council filed a petition Thursday asking the state to either grant or deny the application for a renewed permit allowing Vermont Yankee to discharge heated water into the river.
New Haven has long ignored the environmental impact of urban runoff. Now the costs of this ignorance have become exceedingly clear. Please contact your alderperson and explain why they need to stop ignoring the 80 percent of Long Island Sound pollution that comes from runoff and approve the proposed municipal stormwater authority. Brian Tang is
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The state Department of Environmental Protection may have a solution, at least for towns that border major rivers or Long Island Sound. Acknowledging that this winter’s excessive snow is unusual, the DEP will allow “limited in-water disposal” of snow when towns can show extraordinary circumstances — that no other place to put the stuff exists
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Mandatory bans on summer water use could be a thing of the past, and improved infrastructure is now in East Lyme’s future.
Environmental advocates are arguing that water companies are using public safety measures put in place after 9/11 as an excuse to prevent citizens from reviewing and questioning their water mining practices.
As Mansfield continues to look at possible water sources for the Four Corners area, it could look to Coventry to help fund the project.
Between 1999 and 2003, more than 2,200 sewer overflows were reported across Connecticut, and grease build-up was responsible for up to 40 percent of them.
New Haven’s Chief Administrative Officer Rob Smuts boasted that a new Stormwater Authority would save residential taxpayers $600,000 a year, the New Haven Independent reports.
“Sound Health 2010″ looks at indicators of the Sound’s health in the areas of water quality, coastal and animal populations, habitats, and land use. See inside for more information and photos from the report. Sound Health 2010, looks back at environmental conditions in the Sound and its watershed over the last two years and compares them to conditions from the last 20 to 30 years.
Water running off roads, parking lots and roofs can overwhelm the sewerage system, flood streets, carry pesticides into rivers and lead to overflows of raw sewage into Long Island Sound.
