"A river is the report card for its watershed." (Alan Levere, CT DEP)
Rivers Alliance
PO Box 1797
7 West Street, 3rd Floor
Litchfield, CT 06759
860-361-9349
rivers@riversalliance.org
www.riversalliance.org
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM
The Leir Retreat Center, Ridgefield
AGENDA
9:00 - 9:30 Sign-in
9:30 - 9:40 Welcome Remarks (10 min.)
Dr. Jack Fong, Vice President Board of Directors, The Leir Retreat Center http://www.cwcnetwork.org/CWCN/CWCN%20Conferences%20Documents/LRC%20Information%20Handout.pdf
Eileen Fielding, Executive Director, Farmington River Watershed Association; President, Rivers Alliance of CT
9:40 - 10:30 Saving State Conserved Lands, Round Table Discussion (50 min. inc. Q & A)
State Lands Working Group: http://www.cwcnetwork.org/CWCN/CWCN%20Conferences%20Documents/conserved%20lands%20issue.pdf and http://www.cwcnetwork.org/CWCN/CWCN%20Conferences%20Documents/saving%20conserved%20lands.pdf
Amy Blaymore Paterson, Esq., Executive Director, CT Land Conservation Council
Sandy Breslin, Director of Governmental Affairs, Audubon CT
Martin Mador, Legislative & Political Chair, CT Chapter of The Sierra Club
Margaret Miner, Executive Director, Rivers Alliance of CT
10:30 - 10:45 Break (15 min.)
10:45 - 11:00 Announcements (5 min. each)
Coastal Revitalization Effort, Peter Alexander, Landscape Architect http://www.cwcnetwork.org/CWCN/CWCN%20Conferences%20Documents/coastal%20restoration%20plan_peter%20alexander.pdf
Tree Box Filters, Nanda Zimmerman, Stormwaterworks, LLC http://www.cwcnetwork.org/CWCN/CWCN%20Conferences%20Documents/tree%20box%20filter%20stormwaterworks.pdf
11:00 – 11:35 How Commissions Can Plan for Extreme Rainfall. The Latest Data. (35 min. inc. Q & A)
Denise Savageau, Conservation Director, Town of Greenwich. http://www.cwcnetwork.org/CWCN/CWCN%20Conferences%20Documents/Rainfall_riversalliance2012.ppt Here are some important links from Denise Savageau's rainfall data powerpoint presentation
1. Extreme Rainfall for NY/New England website: http://precip.eas.cornell.edu/
2. CT DEEP Climate Change Adaptation: http://ctclimatechange.com/index.php/learn/adaptation/
3. Town of Greenwich Drainage Manual: http://www.greenwichct.org/Government/Departments/Public_Works/Engineering_Division/Stormwater_Information/drainage_manual/
Arde Ramthun, P.E., State Conservation Engineer, Natural Resource Conservation Service http://www.cwcnetwork.org/CWCN/CWCN%20Conferences%20Documents/Extreme%20Precip.ppt
11:35 – 12:00 Election Results and Policy Priorities (25 min.)
Lori Brown, Executive Director, CT League of Conservation Voters http://www.cwcnetwork.org/CWCN/CWCN%20Conferences%20Documents/ctlcv%20forum%20info.pdf
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch Break (45 min.)
12:45 – 1:30 Current Policy Issues & Information (45 min.)
Rate-making to Encourage Water Conservation Investments by Utilities
Source Water and Sewage
Pesticides
Remediation Transformation
Margaret Miner, Executive Director, Rivers Alliance of CT and Others
CEQ’s Draft Recommendations for Environmental Legislation, Public Forum Nov. 28, 2012 at 9:30 AM and Draft Checklist or Reccommendations
Peter Hearn, Environmental Analyst, Council on Environmental Quality
1:30 – 1:45 Announcements (3-5 min each)
Water Quality Standards & 303 (b) List, Jacqueline Talbot, CT River Watershed Council
The Organic Land Care Program, CT NOFA, Kristiane Huber
New Opportunities to Support Rural and Agricultural Towns - An AGvocate Workshop Thu Nov 29
24th Annual Northeastern Nonpoint Source Pollution Conference May 14-15, 2013
Guilfords Packaged Sewage Treatment
2:00 – 2:10 Closing Remarks (15 min.)
**Please Complete Evaluation Forms**
A very special thank-you to The Leir Retreat Center for hosting this conference!
And many thanks to the Conference Steering Committee for helping us put together this event:
Cordalie Benoit
,
Connecticut Community Gardening
Association
Karen Burnaska,
Transit for CT /
Endangered Lands
Coalition
Raul de Brigard, CT
River Watershed Council & CT Gateway Commission
Eileen Fielding, Farmington River Watershed Association
Margaret Miner and Rose
Guimaraes, Rivers Alliance of CT
Jerry Silbert, M.D.,
The Watershed
Partnership
Martha Smith,
Environmental Consultant
Jacqueline Talbot, Connecticut River Watershed Council
Dennis Tobin, Town of Litchfield