Category Ash Creek

Photo by one of our members, Joe Luciano.  1/29/16

Dredging of the channel to the South Benson Marina will begin the first or second week of March.  There Town of Fairfield has hired Julian Construction as their contractor.  The project will finish by the end of March.  Most of…

ECOHISTORY OF ASH CREEK PRESENTATION ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20th The Ecohistory of Ash Creek will be held on Wednesday, March 20 at the Fayerweather Yacht Club at 6:30 PM.  It will also include the social and cultural aspects of the important role Ash Creek has played in the lives…

The first meeting of a Stakeholder Information Session on the Ash Creek Pedestrian Bridge Feasibility Study was held on February 5, 2013. The Ash Creek Street pedestrian bridge would be an exciting development as it would create a more direct…

Gail Bell, a local landscape painter, is doing a series of paintings on Ash Creek.  She donated half the proceeds from the sale of the painting of Ash Creek shown above at our December 5th event.  We held a Silent…

On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 our Council Representative, Sue Brannelly, notified us that she had received a complaint of a strong oil smell at Grovers and Balmforth.   As a result, the City Depatment of Health went out, called in the DEEP…

The Ash Creek Tidal Estuary is one of the few remaining relatively undeveloped tidal estuaries in the State of Connecticut.  Its shellfish beds of clams and oysters are protected by the Bureau of Aquaculture.  Connecticut Audubon states that is one…