U.S. EPA announces Campus Rainworks Challenge

The U.S. EPA’s Office of Water is pleased to announce the Campus RainWorks Challenge for college and university students. EPA is inviting student teams to design an innovative green infrastructure project for their campus. Student teams will collaborate with a faculty advisor to develop design boards, a project narrative, and a short video describing their project. The winning teams will be awarded cash prizes as well as research funding.

Registration: September 4, 2012 – October 5, 2012
Entries Due: December 14, 2012
Winners Announced: April 22, 2013

Municipal adoption ceremony, August 2nd

Please join members of the steering committee and stakeholders for the municipal adoption of the Five Mile River Watershed Based Plan, which will be held Thursday, August 2, at 1.00pm at Norwalk Community College. Anyone may attend.

Plant Science Day August 1st, 2012

American Rivers report on water financing

American Rivers recently released a report following a series of interviews with water providers, finance experts, and NGOs about green infrastructure investment and implementation. The document provides a set of market-based strategies to optimize water financing for environmental as well as consumptive and wastewater uses:

Restoring Flows: Financing the Next Generation of Water Systems (American Rivers/Ceres, April 2012)

2,800 pounds of trash removed from the Five Mile River

Thanks to a group of volunteers organized by United by Blue, the Five Mile River is now a little bit cleaner. Read more (Norwalk Daily Voice)...

EPA Announces Framework to Help Local Governments Manage Stormwater Runoff and Wastewater

WASHINGTON - Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new framework to help local governments meet their Clean Water Act obligations... (read more)

State of the Sound: Grading the Region's Efforts to Restore and Protect Long Island Sound

Save the Sound's Leah Schmalz will be presenting as part of the Westport Public Library's Sunset Lecture Series on the State of the Sound report. Refreshments will be served at 6:00 p.m. Leah will speak at 6:15 p.m. followed by a question and answer session at 6:45 p.m. For more information, visit www.westportlibrary.org
 
Thursday, June 28 from 6-8pm
20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT
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