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The
relatively short Norwalk River has great aesthetic, historic, cultural,
recreational, economic, and environmental significance in its seven
Fairfield and Westchester County watershed towns. The river impacts
our lives and livelihoods, our activities, and assets. Its health
ensures the health of its communities.
The
Norwalk River Watershed Association is actively working to improve
the health of this river. NRWA invites you to support its projects,
programs, and actions
to improve the watershed for the benefit of present and future generations.
Become
a Norwalk River Watershed Association Member-Download
Form.
New
Handouts! Four-Season Yard Worker Tip Sheet in English and
Spanish:
NRWA's
one-pager organizes landscaping chores by season and gives suggestions
on responsible ways to handle property maintenance to benefit your
plants, animals, properties, the water you drink, and the watershed
where you live and work. Recommendations include advice from area
landscaping professionals. The project was made possible by a Long
Island Sound License Plate Program grant from CT Department of Environmental
Protection because better property management will improve the quality
of the water that supplies our rivers, wells, reservoirs, and Long
Island Sound.
Property
owners and landscaping professionals are encouraged to download
the handout and distribute it to yard workers, associates, clients,
and neighbors. The more people understand the consequences of the
care they give their lawns and plantings, the more they will care
and act to make their part of the world cleaner and healthier. Property
care is one area where every person can help to improve the quality
of runoff - the non-point pollution which is so difficult to trace
and manage and which is the major factor in water pollution of local
streams running down to the Sound.
The
one-page restriction of this handout limited the number and detail
of topics to be discussed. Therefore, NRWA will be creating a supplemental
list of additional recommendations that will be posted on this site.
If you have discussion points or ways to distribute the information
that you'd like to suggest, please send the information to info@norwalkriver.org.
- To
download the Four-Season Yard Worker Tip Sheet in English, click
here.
- To
download the Four-Season Yard Worker Tip Sheet in Spanish, click
here.
"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.
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. 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.
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.
Control
Invasives:
Want
to help control invasive Purple Loosestrife? Become
a beetle farmer and let NRWA know where you are working in the watershed.
We’d like to help monitor the results.
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