WATER QUALITY & BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
LFSWS funded a grant for Farmington River Watershed Association to provide Middle and High School students education and hands-on training on how to conduct macroinvertebrate surveys. Fifteen students at Lewis Mills High School in Burlington, Connecticut were trained in Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s (CT DEEP’s) Riffle Bioassessment by Volunteers (RBV) protocol. The students had the opportunity to collect their own samples which they sorted and identified by species. Their data was submitted to CT DEEP, and the results showed there were five species in the ‘most sensitive’ category, which inferred that Bunnell Brook is a high-quality stream.
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Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic 