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The New London Day 1/7/2024 Groton ― Improvements to the stormwater system, rain gardens, and a study of raising low-level roads are among potential solutions to help protect downtown Mystic from increased flooding in the face of climate change. Draft recommendations from a study that the Town of Groton and consultant GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. conducted […]

The New London Day 12/27/2023 By Kimberly DrelichDay Staff Writer [email protected] Groton ― After more than a year of studying the vulnerability of downtown Mystic to climate change and ways to make it more resilient, project leaders will present potential strategies to the public next week. The draft recommendations are intended to help protect the area from the […]

The New London Day 8/30/2023 By Carrie Czerwinski, Special to The Day Stonington ― Residents of the Wequetequock Cove area want to know how fecal coliform bacteria and other harmful contaminants are getting into their wells and the cove. In addition, they are questioning why the cove has such poor water quality and what can be […]

Long Island Sound Study 6/8/2023 Every 10 days from mid-spring to mid-fall George Hoffman gets up early in the morning to meet three of his colleagues with the Setauket Harbor Task Force. At the harbor around 5:45 am, they join the captain of a small boat who takes them out on the water to monitor […]

Harbor Happenings Newsletter—Volume 12Spring/Summer 2023 Click on graphic to read. https://www.stonington-ct.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3851/f/pages/2023_harbor_newsletter_final_5-11-23.pdf

The New London Day 5/4/2023 Mystic ― Chad Frost has noticed more flooding during rainstorms and significantly more tidal flooding over the past 20 years that he has worked in Mystic. Frost, a landscape architect with Kent + Frost Landscape Architecture and Design, travels along River Road to get back and forth between his office […]