Porous Pavement in Plainville

Snow and rain will filter through the pavement, keeping harmful runoff from entering sewers and polluting the Quinnipiac River.

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Sound Swim Alert For Westchester: The Beaches Are Open

Update Sunday August 10th:  Beaches are still open! Saturday August 9th:  Enjoy the beaches throughout a sunny weekend!

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You can help put independent observers on all commercial herring boats

Please ask federal fishery managers to protect river herring and shad by requiring independent observers on every industrial fishing trawl trip.

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Sound Swim Alert for Westchester: Beaches Open

Update, Sunday, August 3: The beaches are open today.

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Sound Swim Alert for Westchester: The Beaches are Open!

Update on Sunday July 26th: The Beaches are Still open! Saturday July 25th: Long Island Sound beaches in Westchester County are all open. The public beaches are at Harbor Island Park in Mamaroneck and Hudson Park in New Rochelle, as well as private beaches at Beach Point Club, Mamaroneck Beach and Yacht Club, Shore Acres […]

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The Sound’s mid-July oxygen readings are some of the best ever. Why? And will it hold out in a traditionally brutal August?

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Milford’s NOAA Laboratory is an Aquaculture Leader

Although it has been the site of pioneering work in aquaculture for over 90 years, few Connecticut residents are aware of the lab’s contribution to science, the local and national economy, or even of its existence. The first in a series on NOAA’s Milford Laboratory. Since our earliest colonial days, New England’s fisherman have been harvesting shellfish commercially […]

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Leading Ecologist and Author to Speak on Coastal Resiliency, Saturday at the Rye Meeting House

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