Fw: Hello Pequonnock People: Old Mine Park Streamside Buffer Restoration Event: Saturday, May 19th, 10:00am

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 Subject: Hello Pequonnock People: Old Mine Park Streamside Buffer Restoration Event: Saturday, May 19th, 10:00am

 

On Saturday, May 19, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, volunteers will gather to complete streamside plantings at Old Mine Park along the Pequonnock River in Trumbull, CT. The Trumbull Conservation Commission and Save the Sound, a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment, ...are co-hosting the event.

 

Native plants, tools, and refreshments will provide volunteers of all ages the opportunity for a direct hand in completing the planting and to learn more about details of creating streamside buffers to protect our waterways and wetlands, to reduce flooding impacts, and to create habitat for fish, birds and other wildlife.

 

A brief news conference will precede the volunteer portion to present the project to the public and to thank town officials and community volunteers whose efforts have made the Old Mine Streamside Buffer project possible. Funds for trees, shrubs and plants, and landscape features, have been awarded through a competitive grant program of the Anne Richardson Foundation to Connecticut Fund for the Environment and the Town of Trumbull. The Town has contributed an equal share in materials and labor to match the Anne Richardson grant and provide a beautiful and functional landscape at the parking entry for Old Mine Park.

 

The project is among the inaugural restoration efforts of the Pequonnock River Initiative, a collaboration of Monroe, Trumbull and Bridgeport to improve water quality and protection of the Pequonnock River Watershed. The landscape and planting that you will see at Old Mine Park is a model streamside buffer, which is a recommended "Best Practice" in inland wetland and waterway protection. Planting native species on streamside banks helps to reduce soil erosion, to absorb flooding, and to provide shade and cool water for fish and other wildlife. The Old Mine Streamside Buffer includes trees, shrubs, stormwater retention pool and other plantings that help to clean water by natural filtration as it overflows in rainstorms, in this location, from road and parking area run-off, before entering the Pequonnock River.  

 

To RSVP for the event or for more information, please email Save the Sound's Kierran Broatch at kbro...@savethesound.org  or call (203) 787-0646, x113.”

 

To learn more about the Pequonnock River Initiative(PRI), which  now operates as part of the Greater Bridgeport Regional Council, please go to: http://www.gbrct.org/programs/environmental-programs/pequonnock-river-initiative/

 

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection supplied a grant and technical support that allowed the formation of the Pequonnock River Initiative and resulted in the development of a comprehensive Pequonnock River Watershed Management Plan, which can be viewed and downloaded at: http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2719&q=379296&depNav_GID=1654#pequonnock