A Blue Plan for Long Island Sound

There’s a lot going on in and around Long Island Sound. It’s 1320 square miles of saltwater and sun; beaches, ports, and marshes; sailboats, tankers, and lobster pots. To ensure a good and prosperous future for Long Island Sound, we need to build an inventory of our current uses and create a guide for the future.

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Don’t Waste CT: Support Laws to Regulate Fracking Waste

Fracking fluid is full of some nasty toxic material. Benzene, lead, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene–these are a few of the two dozen known carcinogens and compounds that can be found in fracking dirty leftovers. Toxic mystery waste does not belong in our state. We need your help to keep it out.

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Let’s Rebuild All U.S. Fish Populations and Prevent Overfishing

What Long Island Sound fish is a hard fighter, voracious eating machine, and plays baseball in Bridgeport, Connecticut?

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For oxygen in the Sound, which is more important: the size of a sewage plant or its location?

The answer may surprise you.

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Fridays in the Field #10: The Nature Conservancy’s Adam Whelchel, Part 2

In the second of this two-part post, Adam discusses using natural infrastructure and planning for Connecticut’s future. 

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Replacement of Mamaroneck Club’s Sewer is Essential

The biggest success of our water quality testing in Mamaroneck last summer was the discovery of a broken sewer pipe that was leaking raw sewage into Otter Creek, near where it empties into Mamaroneck Harbor.

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Fridays in the Field #10: The Nature Conservancy’s Adam Whelchel, Part 1

In the first of this two-part post, Adam discusses the impacts of extreme storms and managing the tradeoffs of rebuilding.

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Fridays in the Field #9: Old Mine Park Wins Design Award for Sensible Stormwater and Ecological Restoration Solutions

The Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (CTASLA) has honored Site Systems, Inc. with a 2014 Merit Award.

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