NOW ON TAP: FUNDS FOR CLEAN WATER

For years, funding for clean water initiatives was put on hold in Connecticut. All that has changed, thanks to efforts by our members to push for an infusion of general obligation bonds into Connecticut's Clean Water Fund. From 2007 through 2009, the fund will receive $90 million per year.

These funds will help us to restore Long Island Sound's "dead zone," an area where oxygen in the water is being depleted due to land development, groundwater drainage, urban stormwater runoff, sewage treatment, fossil fuel consumption and agricultural waste. By acting now, we can help revitalize the Sound and remove the threat to various marine animals and plants. Our goal is to fully restore the dead zone by 2014.

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The new funding won't be enough to complete all of Connecticut's clean water projects, however.  We must invest more to stop annual sewage overflow releases into rivers and the Sound by 2020. You can help by getting on our email sign-up. The next time the Clean Water Fund comes up for additional funding, we'll need to get word out in force to our state legislators.

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Click here to get more facts on Save the Sound, which originally proposed the Clean Water Fund.

Long Island Sound hypoxia map