Turf to Tap: How Your Lawn Impacts Your Drinking Water

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Wilton Library
Brubeck Room

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Please join us in the Brubeck Room for an interesting talk by the Norwalk River Watershed Association's Jayme Soyak.  Over 50 million acres of land in the continental US has some form of lawn on it. Unfortunately, lawns provide little to no habitat for pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. Lawns are often treated with fertilizers and pesticides and toxins from pesticides which end up in our wetlands, rivers, and the Sound, and their root systems are too shallow to effectively filter storm water runoff. Neighborhoods around Wilton are starting to rethink their lawns. The Norwalk River Watershed held three landowner forums throughout the summer, facilitating discussions around lawn to meadow conversion, dam removal and riparian buffers, and No Mow May and pollinator habitats. Join the Norwalk River Watershed Association for a culmination of these three events, highlighting the impacts of lawn management in the Comstock Brook Watershed.

Jayme Soyak is an AmeriCorps volunteer serving the Norwalk River Watershed Association as their Land Stewardship and Community Engagement Coordinator. One of Jayme's projects was to create a landowner outreach program which led to the development of the Turf to Tap programming. Jayme is also a Master's student at Antioch University studying International Sustainable Development and Climate Change.

Registration required.  Please register online or call 203-762-6334.  Contact asato@wiltonlibrary.org for more information.

Event Type(s): Library Program
Age Group(s): Adults

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