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News Archives 2002
4/02 - "NEMO: Successful Connecticut Project Used as Model Nationwide"EPA Section 319 Success Stories, Vol. III "NEMO
is an educational program for land use decision makers that addresses
the relationship between land use and natural resource protection,
with a focus on water resources. The NEMO project was created in
1991 by the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Service
(UConn/CES), in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources
Management and Engineering and the Connecticut Sea Grant Program.
NEMO receives funding from a number of federal and state agencies;
major funding is provided by the USDA/Cooperative Research, Education,
and Extension Service Water Quality Program, the University of Connecticut,
the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Environmental Protection
Agency."
12/02 - CT NEMO goes to the APA National Conference in DenverThe CT NEMO project through our collaboration with the CT DEP 319 program, delivered a regional "Linking Land Use to Water Quality" program during 1998 in the northwestern corner of the state. The regional planners took our recommendations to conduct a parking utilization study to heart. Over the last 4 years they have obtained funding, hired a consultant and completed the first phase of their work. The NEMO Team along with Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc (consultant for the parking study) and the Northwestern CT Council of Governments will be discussing the project on April fools day (hmmm?!) in Denver. Come to our session entitled "Too Much Parking" or visit our website in the spring to download the study. 11/02 - NEMO Project Finally Succumbs to the Urge to do a Newsletter!After a decade of existence, we finally gave in to the urge to produce a newsletter to keep our friends and colleagues up to date on things NEMO, whether they be local triumphs, new educational materials, upcoming events, or "other." The deciding factor was the bevy of great things that are being done in the towns participating in our Connecticut Municipal Initiative. In a compromise between our need to transmit information and our long tradition of brevity, we intend to issue the 4-page newsletter only twice a year. Get your framing materials out, because you can download the collector's edition of Volume 1, Issue 1 right now in our Publications section, General NEMO Information. 11/02 - Middlesex County Extension Center Demonstration Project forges ahead with Green Roof and Rain Garden demonstrations.Connecticut
NEMO Coordinator Laurie Giannotti has undertaken yet another gargantuan
task - turning the NEMO Project's home base, the Middlesex County Extension
Center, into a multifaceted educational site that demonstrates many
of the site design practices that NEMO preaches! This fall, the Sustainable
Landscape Demonstration Project gained some serious momentum with the
installation of both green roof and rain garden demonstrations. The
green roof demo is a collaboration with Weston solutions Inc. of Glastonbury,
CT, and uses their new modular GreenGrid system. The rain garden demo
is a collaboration with Dr. Jack Clausen of the UConn Natural Resources
Management & Engineering Department. Read all about these exciting,
in-the-ground events at the Sustainable Landscape Demonstration Project
web location (be sure to click on "New Management Practices"
to see updates on the rain garden and green roof demos): 11/02 - Reducing Runoff Web Site DebutsThe NEMO website has a new primary destination! In collaboration with the CT DEP's NPS Program, Reducing Runoff (R2) provides you with innovative techniques and development materials for keeping stormwater runoff on site. The R2 site contains photographs, information sheets, case studies, links to manufacturers and more. Whether you're pondering a grass roof or a gravel driveway, this is the place for you to start. This information will be especially useful for those communities and developers affected by the state's upcoming Stormwater Phase II program. Please visit our Reducing Runoff section. 11/02 - Watershed Booklet Spells Out the Process
11/02 - Two New Educational Presentations Hit the StreetConducting a Community Resource Inventory, a recent addition to the NEMO stable of presentations, is now available. As all true NEMOids know, a resource inventory is an essential first step toward all natural resource-based planning initiatives. This presentation goes over the process, and describes a basic inventory that can be cobbled together from existing state data layers, in your spare time and using only tools to be found in your basement. Focus on the Coast is a multi-media project that educates local decision makers about the priority coastal resources of the Connecticut coastline. The program will include a PowerPoint presentation, fact sheets, and website complete with map information. Focus on the Coast is a collaboration of the NEMO Project, the Connecticut Sea Grant College Program, The Nature Conservancy Connecticut Chapter Coastal Program, and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Office of Long Island Sound Programs. For more information on any of these programs, please contact Chester Arnold at chester.arnold@uconn.edu or call (860) 345-4511. 11/02 - ISAT, a New Geospatial Analysis ToolISAT is an ArcView 3.x extension designed to estimate the percent area of a watershed (or another user specified geographic area) that is covered with impervious surfaces and to display the results in the familiar NEMO green, yellow and red colors indicating possible water quality impacts. The extension, written by staff at the NOAA Coastal Services Center, was designed around a prototype application developed by the Connecticut NEMO Project. ISAT easily and quickly estimates impervious surface area based on land cover data and a set of land-cover specific impervious surface coefficients. It also allows the testing of various land use change scenarios to determine how they could impact water quality. To introduce users to ISAT and to explore impervious surface coefficient development, a training workshop was held October 24th and 25th in the Marine Sciences building on the UConn Avery Point Campus. The workshop was team taught by Dave Eslinger, from the NOAA Coastal Services Center in Charleston, SC, and Sandy Prisloe. Dr. Dan Civco, from Natural Resources Management and Engineering, UConn, also made a presentation on cutting edge techniques to extract impervious surface data from satellite imagery. Approximately 20 people attended the workshop and included NEMO project staff from 7 states and land use officials from a number of Connecticut municipalities. For more information, contact Sandy Prisloe, Geospatial Extension Specialist, UConn Cooperative Extension System or visit the GTP website at clear.uconn.edu/geospatial. To download ISAT, go to website www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/is/. 9/02 - The NEMO program was named the Group of the MonthThe NEMO program was named the Group of the Month for July 2002 by a Canadian water quality organization. The Water Information Network (H2infO) is a project founded in late 1999 by RiverSides Stewardship Alliance, the Toronto Environmental Alliance and the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy. The project aims to improve municipal water quality, quantity and flow by fostering and supporting community-based programs and increasing civic participation in national, provincial and local efforts to control municipal non-point sources of water pollution. H2infO promotes the achievement of sustainable municipal, provincial and national policies and programs respecting urban water quality by empowering civic and community action through research, information dissemination and exchange, partnership building and representation. Anyone ready for a Mapleleaf NEMO program? Visit the H2infO website and see the write-up on NEMO! www.h2info.org. 9/02 - NEMO Featured in NWQEPCan't get enough information about NEMO? NC State University's NCSU Water Quality Group Newsletter, NWQEP NOTES, is featuring NEMO in its latest issue! The article focuses on the impacts of the CT NEMO program. The May 2002 publication can be accessed on the NWQEP website. www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/issues/Notes_105.pdf |
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Resource-Based Planning for Watersheds: A Practical Starter Kit,
is a joint publication of the NEMO Project and the UConn Forestry
Extension Program. The 27 page booklet, heavy on illustrations
and mercifully light on text, is meant to demystify the process
of planning to protect multi-town resources like watersheds.
Along the way, it relates simple tips, and examples of ways to
keep yourself from bogging down or blowing up when tackling your
local watershed. The Kit can be ordered through the Publications
section of the NEMO website (cost is $5). An
associated workshop can also be scheduled, see our