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PRESS RELEASE: 2024 Long Island Sound Report Card Released by Save the Sound

Save the Sound 10/10/2024 Nitrogen Pollution Management Leads to Improvement in Open Water Grades; Water Quality in Many Sound Bays Raises Concern The regional nonprofit environmental organization Save the Sound has released findings of its 2024 Long Island Sound Report Card. The biennial report offers compelling evidence that efforts to reduce the amount of nitrogen released into […]

Long Island Sound Report Card: Using science to tell stories and inspire change

Save the Sound 10/10/2024 Long Island Sound Report Card Using science to tell stories and inspire change Click here to get your copy of the 2024 LIS Report Card! Download past LIS Report Cards: 2022 – 2020 – 2018 – 2016 The Long Island Sound Report Card tracks and publicizes the ecological health of Long Island Sound. Our biennial report assembles water […]

Stormwater Management Guidance Manual for use in Multi-Unit Residential Areas

Long Island Sound Study 8/27/2024 This manual was developed for the Long Island Sound Futures Fund project Improving Water Quality through Green Infrastructure in Quanaduck Cove and Long Island Sound (CT), aimed at implementing Stormwater Management Green Infrastructure Best Management Practices. The goal of the project was to mitigate the impact of stormwater runoff on water […]

Preservation groups worry about future of herring

The New London Day 4/22/2024 By Daniel DrainvilleDay Staff Writer [email protected] Stonington ― Maggie Favretti, first chair director of the Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed, said Sunday she sees “at most” six or seven river herring when counting them in a narrow area of the Mystic River. March through May is when the fish ― […]

Why are alewives disappearing?

The New London Day 3/28/2024 By Steve Fagin Kevin Job’s favorite memories of growing up in Norwich involved fishing for stripers with his dad in spring, when enormous schools of alewives would swim upriver. “We’d see 10,000 in one night. The whole river would turn silver,” he recalled the other day. Over the years, though, Job […]

Downtown Mystic Resiliency & Sustainability Plan Final Report

Town of Groton 2/2/2024 Downtown Mystic is one of the quintessential historical and cultural resources of New England. Although its location along the banks of the Mystic River has helped the area prosper, it also makes Mystic vulnerable to climate change impacts. In response to Mystic’s climate change vulnerability, the Town of Groton hired GZA […]

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