Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Next Steps for the Watershed-Based Plan

Phase II of the Watershed-Based Planning Process for the Saugatuck, Five Mile, and Mianus Rivers will begin with a stakeholders workshop on November 30, 2011 in the Douglas Room of the Lapham Community Center in New Canaan from 6:30-8:30pm. The Center is located at 663 South Avenue, New Canaan in Waveny Park (the stone house beyond the swimming pool). Directions are available at: http://www.laphamcenter.org/welcome_directions.pdf.

This workshop represents the next step in developing final watershed-based plans for each watershed. The focus of the workshop will be to review and discuss the preliminary recommendations included in the draft plans and to get the community’s feedback on additional project concepts for the final plans. Draft reports are available on the project website http://www.swrpa.org/Default.aspx?Regional=280

During the remainder of the watershed planning process this blog will be updated on a weekly basis. Stakeholders can sign up to receive email notification of new blog posts by emailing Lia (lmastropolo “at” akrf.com) and requesting to be included for their primary river of interest. Stakeholders are also encouraged to post links to their own research and projects within the watershed and to ask general questions of the  group. AKRF staff are available to provide blog support to anyone interested in participating (again, lmastropolo “at” akrf.com).