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Congratulations to Fred Grimsey, Founder and President of STR-STH for winning a 2017 Aquarion Environmental Champion Award!!
Senator Richard Blumenthal presented the Aquarion Environmental Champion Award
in the Adult Category to Fred Grimsey. [From the Aquarion Website]
"In 2003, Fred Grimsey’s concern for the health of the beautiful Niantic River in southeastern Connecticut and its surrounding communities hit the tipping point. More people than ever were enjoying swimming, fishing, clamming and all manner of water sports in the river and tidal estuary. But with all the boat traffic, the river was becoming a growing repository for raw sewage pumped overboard.
So Fred took it upon himself to do something about it. With his own money, he bought a boat and equipped it to pump out the waste tanks of pleasure craft using the river. Then he took what we politely call “pumpage” to an environmentally safe treatment plant on shore. And all at no cost to the boat owners.
Fred ran that pump-out service for two years out of his own pocket. It soon caught the eye of the state and now it’s fully funded by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Last year, Fred’s program alone kept 16,000 gallons of sewage out of the Niantic River and Long Island Sound. Even more important, his efforts inspired similar pump-out programs up and down the coastline.
When he wasn’t out on the river, Fred was busy founding and nurturing a new non-profit called Save the River – Save the Hills. And its successes have only grown – and grown and grown. He’s worked tirelessly to defend the remaining natural areas of the Niantic River watershed and preserve them in their unpolluting, scenic state – including 236 acres that are now protected along the river itself.
And Fred is still at it. In 2012 he launched an all-volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program. Again using his own boat and funds, the program revealed bacteria levels in some parts of the river well above levels that would close beaches elsewhere in the state. With boaters no longer contributing to the problem in any major way, Fred is now tackling ways to reduce the amount of runoff that with every serious rainstorm sluices off roads, lawns and parking lots, polluting a waterway treasured by thousands.
Aquarion is proud to honor Fred Grimsey with its 2017 Environmental Champion Award in the Adult Category."
Save the River-Save the Hills Mission:
Save the River-Save the Hills, Inc., is dedicated to preserving the health of the Niantic River Estuary, its Watershed and the natural beauty of the Oswegatchie Hills.
Preserving the health of the Niantic River Estuary and the natural beauty of the Oswegatchie Hills that overlook the River is crucial not only to the local people who boat, swim, fish and live along the River, but also to the well-being of the entire Long Island Sound. The River is a Tidal Estuary emptying directly into the Long Island Sound carrying with it all the runoff from its entire watershed. For the past 20 years both the Niantic River and the Oswegatchie Hills face a major crisis--the threat of development of an 1700+ unit condominium complex within the Oswegatchie Hills - right on the River.
Save the River-Save the Hills works tirelessly to keep the Niantic River clean and ensure that the Oswegatchie Hills remain unspoiled, but we cannot do it alone. We need people like you to help us turn the tide. Won't you join us?
Click the links below to learn why your contributions make such a difference:
HELP KEEP THE NIANTIC RIVER CLEAN AND THE OSWEGATCHIE HILLS GREEN. CLICK TO JOIN TODAY!