DeLauro Announces Over $125,000 to Improve Health of Long Island Sound

Will Help Fund Projects Promoting Education, Planningin Southern Connecticut

NEW HAVEN, CT—Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) announcedtoday that three New Haven-based projects to improve the health of the LongIsland Sound have been awarded grants to further their goals. The threeare part of a larger group of 35 grants that were announced today.

"The Long Island Sound is one of our greatest treasures andholds enormous cultural, historical and economic significance for Connecticut,"DeLauro said. "We have a responsibility to ensure it is protected and preservedso future generations can continue to enjoy it and the exciting projects thesegrants are funding will help us do just that. I look forward to seeing theresults of the Pond Lily Dam Removal Project and how these new programs willshare the uniqueness of the Sound with New Haven schoolchildren."

DeLauro is a co-chair of the Congressional Long Island SoundCaucus, a bipartisan group that coordinates Connecticut and New York efforts toimprove the health of the Sound. She is also a leading co-sponsor of the LongIsland Sound Restoration and Stewardship Act, which reauthorizes programsthat help protect, preserve and restore the Sound's resources.

The funds for the grants come from the Long Island SoundFutures Fund, a public-private partnership of the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service andWells Fargo.

The three New Haven projects receiving funding are listedbelow. The first two are for education and the last is for planningpurposes.

• Urban Schoolyard Habitat Partnership, Audubon Connecticut: $34,757.16
• Long Island Sound Curricula Outreach to CT's Inner Cities, Sea Research Foundation: $30,603.20
• Pond Lily Dam Removal Project: Design and Permitting, The Connecticut Fund for the Environment: $60,000