Berlin Receives Grant For Local Fishway Project

BERLIN, CT - A portion of $2.57 million in grants awarded to help improve the Long Island Sound will go toward a local project, according to a statement from the town. Last week federal and state environmental officials from New York and New England announced 36 grants totaling $2.57 million to local government and community groups to improve the health and ecosystem of Long Island Sound.

In Berlin, $250,000 of the grant will go toward a fishway project for the Railroad Pond Dam. The fishway will remove an impediment to passage and open a 12-acre pond and river for fish to pass to Long Island Sound including alewife, blueback herring, sea lamprey and American eel.

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The town is putting up $147,800 in matching funds for the project.

This grant program combines funds from the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).

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