Tours
With Conservation on the Urban Fringe being our theme, the Planning Committee (with input from many of our colleagues throughout the Northeast) has put together a diverse program with fascinating tours that are all just minutes away from our venue:
· The Jordan Cove Urban Watershed Project is located in Waterford, Connecticut, on the Long Island Sound coast. The study is one of the Section 319 National Monitoring Program Projects. The project, which began in 1995, is designed to determine the water quantity and water quality benefits of using pollution prevention best management practices in a residential subdivision. Monitoring is intended to continue for 10 years. During this tour, you will walk the street of a traditional subdivision, then cross the divide into a real world LID subdivision. Compare the construction techniques and see how monitoring methods were employed to collect data.
· See both a fish elevator on a large power company dam and a completed fishway on a small dam, and hear how a Connecticut Conservation District is providing project management services for a similar project.
Long Island Sound and its estuaries are the focus of recent Natural Resources Conservation Service studies of subaqueous soils. This tour will demonstrate this important work (with a view!).