Giving TuesdayGiving Tuesday, the biggest global giving day of the year, is Tuesday, November 28. This year, please consider a contribution aimed at protecting open space in Hamden for families today and future generations. Your support has already protected Rocky Top, helped to enlarge Brooksvale Park, established a the Joseph C. Lee Pollinator Garden along the Farmington Canal Trail behind Route 10 Restaurant and assisted with numerous other impactful initiatives. Support your all-volunteer land trust on Giving Tuesday.
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Elizabeth Hayes, activist
Hamden Town Center ParkWith a grant from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Toen of Hamden support, our friends at Save the Sound recently upgraded approximately 2.5 acres of land at Hamden Town Center Park from lawn to a large-scale rain garden to help filter harmful polluted stormwater, restore habitat, and create a greener and more resilient Hamden. The rain garden features approximately 7,000 native pollinator plants. With a generous grant from the Claire C. Bennitt Watershed Fund, your land trust installed a portion of the project with 500 native pollinator plants and the help of dozens of volunteers. The entire project will filter pollution from 96 million gallons of stormwater each year for a safer and healthier Hamden.
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Six LakesThe Hamden Land Conservation Trust along with the Connecticut Land Conservation Council are working as part of the Six Lakes Park Coalition and the Town of Hamden to bring about a vision for remediation of the property by its owner Olin Corporation, and eventual public access to the site. See Brian Slattery's article in The New Haven Independent about last summer's town meeting and let town officials know that you support remediation and eventual public access to the property. Find out more at the Six Lakes Coalition website.
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