ACCA is in now in our sixth year of monitoring the water quality of Black Rock Harbor and our third year in Bridgeport Harbor as part of Save the Sound’s Unified Water Study program. That program measures water quality as it affects plants and wildlife. ACCA recently became part…
September 12 early morning Unified Water Study Tier I sonde profiling trip #11 in Bridgeport Harbor with volunteers Kevin Blagys, Rick Landau, Jeff Burress, and Michael Curran.
Early morning, September 28, 2023, UWS Tier I sonde profiling in Bridgeport Harbor, our 10th of this season. One more month to go. Good thing, it is getting very cold out there! We had a special guest, Jim Casey, University of…
The article describes a typical water quality monitoring data gathering session for the volunteers in Black Rock Harbor aboard the Proctor, a lobster boat owned by the Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center (known locally as the Aquaculture School), a marine…
Due to COVID-19 concerns, the UWS was delayed from its May start date to June 12 while protocols and indemnification forms were adapted to meet the new safety standards. Last year we used the Aquaculture School boat, captains, teacher, and students…
A group of citizen scientist volunteers has been formed to document the community work with regard to cleaning up Black Rock Harbor. Pete Spain, Kevin Blagys, and Jon Fatigate are leading the way starting with a Facebook page, which they created on February…
Save the Sound Website Coverage of First Annual Black Rock Water Quality Summit Was it really just a few months ago that nearly 100 of us gathered together at the Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture School on February 26, 2020? Seems like…
Journalist Christine Woodside recently won an Excellence in Journalism Award for her investigative series “Sewage Overflows: Legal But Tainted” from the CT Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. We previously posted her articles in our newsletter last year about the serious sewage problems in…
The First Annual Black Rock Harbor Water Summit Wednesday, February 26, 2020 from 5:00 to 7:30 PM Regional Vocational Aquaculture School, 60 St Stephens Rd, Bridgeport PUBLIC WELCOME! 5:00-5:30 Meet & Greet 5:30-7:30 Program including Public Q&A (Agenda below) Brought…
Save the Date – Water Quality Summit – Feb. 26 The First Annual Black Rock Harbor Water Quality Summit will be held on February 26 (note date has changed from earlier announced date of February 12) from 5 pm – 7:30 pm at Bridgeport Regional…