"How to Manage and Landscape Your Property," Plentiful, clean drinking water is essential for healthy lives and property values. “How to Manage and Landscape Your Property” is a succinct, yet comprehensive, brochure for property owners that gives information about easy and important ways to safequard one’s well and avoid polluted runoff to neighboring or downstream properties, upstream reservoirs, and Long Island Sound. The brochure is one-stop shopping for responsible and cost-effective protections that anyone can implement and gives links to other organizations and agencies with additional resources. Individuals, organizations, and municipalities are encouraged to download the two-sided, legal-size PDF and spread the information to help diminish nonpoint pollution. Printing costs were partially funded by a small grant from The Sounds Conservancy. A newly updated version was distributed at the end of May 2008 in newspapers to residents and businesses in Norwalk and Wilton. That revision and distribution was made possible by a grant from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection through its Long Island Sound License Plate Program.

There are two different versions: one for Connecticut and one for New York State,(page #1 and page #2 download) *prints in landscape format

Each has helpful links to additional agencies, organizations, and information. The Connecticut brochure was distributed by the towns of New Canaan, Redding , Ridgefield , Weston, and Wilton and is available at local libraries and Town Halls. It will be distributed in Norwalk in Spring 2008. The New York version (page #1 and page #2 download) partially made possible at the end of 2007 by a small grant from The Sounds Conservancy, is available at the Lewisboro Town House, South Salem Library, and other locations.

To aid in implementing the brochure’s recommendations, don’t forget to check out this website for information on a variety of topics – from invasive or native plantings to water quality and opportunities for hands-on work to improve our resources and access to them.

DEP P2 View Newsletter

The CT DEP Office of Pollution Prevention has a great newsletter that addresses all kinds of practices and products that adversely affect water quality, plus alternative solutions that work. You can contact DEP to subscribe online or by mail to the free newsletter, which has links to other great resources and information. Click here for newsletter.

Helpful White Papers:

Improve your soil by raking less (PDF)

Alternate Sewage Treatment Systems- White Paper (PDF)

Bugs and Bats. Click here for information on bats and their bug-control benefits during the summer months

 

 

In 1997 a list of background documents was created by the organizers of a conference dealing with the Norwalk River watershed. That bibliography, in a reorganized form and with some additions and deletions, is listed below.


1998     The Norwalk River Watershed Action Plan, prepared by the Norwalk River Watershed Initiative Committee
 
1997 Norwalk River Watershed Streamwalk Findings Report, U.S. Dept of Agr, Natural Resources Conservation Service
 
1996 Norwalk Harbor Management Plan, 1996 Plan Addendum, Norwalk Harbor Management Commission


1996     Volunteer Monitoring Data, The Nature Center for Environmental Activities, Harbor Watch/River Watch
 
1995 Town of Wilton - Townwide Water Quality Monitoring Data
 
1995 Water Quality Survey Report, Upper Norwalk River, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
1995 1994 Annual Assessment for the Shellfish Growing Waters in the City of Norwalk, Conn State Dept of Agriculture
 
1994 A survey of the Benthic Macro invertebrate Communities of the Upper Norwalk River (Ridgefield, CT), R.Pepedis
 
1991 Norwalk River Eutrophication/Nutrient Analysis, A.Mauger, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
1991 Water Quality Report, City of Norwalk, Water Quality Committee
 
1991 Water Quality Assessment of the Norwalk River, Norwalk, Connecticut, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
1990 Report for Gilbert and Bennett Renovations, King's Mark Environmental Review Team
 
1989 Benthic Macro invertebrate Data, Branchville and Winnipauk, 1978-89, unpublished data, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Management, Hartford, CT
 
1982 Derivation of Site Specific Water Quality Criteria for the Norwalk River at Georgetown, CT, L.Dunbar and E.Pizzuto, Jr., Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
?? Water Quality Survey Report of the Norwalk Harbor and Upstream, Conn Dept of Agriculture


1997     Stream Channel Encroachment Lines - Hearing Examiner's Report, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
1997 Norwalk River Watershed Pl-566 Project; Summary of Findings; U.S. Dept of Agr - Natural Resources Conservation Service
 
1995 Water Resources Development in Connecticut (Norwalk River); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Revised Nov. 1995
 
1976 Final environmental impact statement, Norwalk River Watershed PL566, Fairfield County, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service
 
1965 Workplan for Watershed Protection, Flood Prevention, Wetland Wildlife, Natural Resources Development for the Norwalk River Watershed, U.S. Department of Agriculture
 
FEMA maps
 
DOT Region Map. Route 7 Project Location Map


2007 Alternate Sewage Treatment Systems- White Paper (PDF)
Ann. Water Resources Data, Connecticut, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Div, Hartford, Conn, Annual Reports, 1980-present
 
Ann. State of Connecticut 305(b) Report, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection, (Annual)
 
1997     Water Quality Classifications - Southwest Coastal Basin, Draft, May 1997, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
1996 Water Quality Standards, State of Connecticut, Dept of Environmental Protection, Water Management Bureau
 
1996 Connecticut Water Bodies not Meeting Connecticut Water Quality Standards in 1996, Including Those bodies for which Development of a Pollution Control Plan is Required, 303(d) List, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
1996 Nonpoint Source Pollution Assessment and Management Plan, CT's 6217 Submission: Managing Coastal Nonpoint Sources of Pollution
 
1996 Organochlorine Compounds and Trace Elements in Fish Tissue and Ancillary Data for the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basin Study Unit, 1992-94, U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 96-358
 
1996 Inorganic and organic constituents and grain size distribution stream bed sediment and ancillary data for the Connecticut, Housatonic and Thames River Basin Study Unit 1992-94, U.S. Geological Survey 96-397
 
1995 Water Quality Assessment of the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basin Study Unit: Analysis of Available Data on Nutrients, Suspended Sediments, and Pesticides, 1972-1992, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Investigations Report 95-4203
 
1994 Long Island Sound Study Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan, CT/NY/EPA, 1994
 
1993 Priority Ranking of Subregional Basins for Nitrogen Management, C.Frink, P.Stacey, S.Beede and the NPS Workgroup, LISS, 1993
 
1991 A Survey of Connecticut Streams and Rivers - Central Coast and Western Coastal Drainages, N.Hagstrom, M.Humphreys, and W.Hyatt, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
1970 Trends in Surface Water Quality of CT, Part 4, Southwestern Coastal River Basins, U.S. Geological Survey


1996     Connecticut Resource Protection Project: Habitat Resources; Public Water Supply; Agricultural; Forest Resources; Recreational Resources; and Threats to Resources
 
1995 Connecticut Fish Distribution Report, Conn Dept of Environmental Protection
 
1994 Carabids Collected in Wilton, CT during Continuing Super 7 Inventory
 
1993 Amphibians and Reptiles of Connecticut and Adjoining Regions, M.W.Klemnens
 
1993 A Report on the Birds along the Proposed U.S. Route 7 Relocation, Norwalk, Wilton, Connecticut, Thomas R.Baptist
 
1991 Natural History Inventory: New Route 7 Expressway; Victor O. DeMasi
 
1977 Wild Mammals of New England, A.J.Godin
 
1976 Rare and Endangered Species of CT and their Habitats, J.J.Dowhan and R.J.Craig


Municipal conservation and development plans
Planning and zoning regulations
Inland wetland regulations
Other local environmental rules and regulations
State health codes
Planning documents of drinking water suppliers
Public drinking water supply watershed regulations
Wastewater facility plans

 
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