Main Street Magazine The Housatonic Valley Association’s (HVA) Explore-a-thon event invites outdoors enthusiasts, families, friends, community members, and anyone who loves nature to participate in its inaugural Explore-a-thon—a month-long, virtual fundraising event that kicked off June 1 and lasts the entire month. Explore-a-thon encourages people to explore any part of the 2,000 square-mile, tri-state Housatonic River Watershed. […]
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Aquarion honors 2022 Environmental Champions
The Register Citizen 6/11/22 Photo credit: Aquarion BRIDGEPORT — Water Company on June 4 celebrated the five winners of its 2022 Aquarion Environmental Champion Awards during a ceremony at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. Annually, the Environmental Champion Awards recognize organizations and individuals in the large and small business, non-profit, adult, and student categories. Community members across […]
Housatonic Valley Association launches environmental health event
Register Citizen The Housatonic Valley Association recently opened online registration for an Explore-a-thon event, a unique way to promote awareness and develop support for environmental health in the Housatonic River Watershed by encouraging people to enjoy the outdoors, members said in a statement. Explore-a-thon will be held in June; there is no central gathering location. To participate, […]
Winsted sets town meeting on Crystal Lake conservation easements
THE REGISTER CITIZEN Emily M. Olson WINSTED — A town meeting on May 16 will ask residents to approve selling 25 parcels of property around Crystal Lake, the town’s primary source of drinking water, to the DEEP. Crystal Lake is surrounded by acres of land that protect the watershed; Winsted’s water treatment plant also is […]
Grant Supports Ecological Restoration and Climate Resilience in the Berkshires
iBerkshires.com PITTSFIELD, Mass. — On behalf of the Berkshire Clean, Cold and Connected (BCCC) Restoration Partnership, the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) has entered into a three-year Cooperative Agreement with the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game (DFG) Division of Ecological Restoration (DER) to support healthy aquatic systems and address climate change in Berkshire County. The […]
Baker-Polito Administration Awards $150,000 in Grants to Help Local Watershed Coalitions Monitor Water Quality
News Provided By Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection BOSTON — The Baker-Polito Administration, as part of the Administration’s Earth Week celebration, announced today that $150,000 in Water Quality Monitoring Grant Program funding has been awarded to four coalitions of watershed monitoring groups to aid in the testing of water quality in rivers, lakes and ponds, […]
‘Long push’ for Wild and Scenic status resurfaces with Congressional clout
Photo by Debra A. Aleksinas TriCorner News by Debra A. Aleksinas CORNWALL — Referred to as a “national treasure” by the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP), a 41-mile stretch of the Housatonic River may finally get its due in 2022 if it is designated as a Partnership Wild and Scenic River. The […]
Housatonic Valley Association looking to make river access more equitable
A view of the Housatonic River in northwest Connecticut. Photo by Amanda Cabanillas The Litchfield County Times By Michael Walsh CORNWALL — Grant funding will help ensure the Housatonic Valley Association can hire interns for its River Information and Outreach program, which they said will help provide safe access to all points of the Housatonic River. […]
Short film helps explain conservation initiative
Photo by Paul Mailhot-Singer Lakeville Journal By Patrick L. Sullivan The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) has a short film on its website that introduces Follow the Forest, a conservation effort with nearly 50 partners in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Vermont. In a nutshell, Follow the Forest is an effort to protect and connect large, […]
Grant supports equitable access to the Housatonic River in Northwest Connecticut
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2022 Funds will help keep the Housatonic clean, safe, and accessible for all The Housatonic Valley Association was awarded $6,500 by the Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation to support the work of four interns in helping keep Housatonic River access sites clean, safe and accessible […]
