Pollutant and Source Targeted: With Great Bay recently impaired for nitrogen, the coalition will reduce nitrogen pollution coming from fertilizer.
Audience: The coalition selected municipal field maintenance managers and staff as the primary target audience and added private turf maintenance companies as a secondary audience.
Project Components
1) Training Workshop: “Can You Get Greener? Free Best Management Practices Workshop for Municipal Turf Managers, Turf Care Professionals and Landscapers.” Approximately 50 participants attended the workshop held at the Portsmouth Public Library on September 19, 2011.
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Organic Fertilizers: Pros and Cons Jesse O’Brien, Down East Turf Farms
- How to Measure Turf Color to Guide Nitrogen Fertilization: Karl Guillard, University of Connecticut
- Next Steps and Gather Feedback: Barbara McMillan, NH Dept. of Environmental Services
- Organic Fertilizers: Pros and Cons
- Workshop Speakers and Resources
2) Operations and Maintenance Manual: A manual to reduce water quality impacts from municipal field maintenance practices will be created.
3) Municipal Pilot Projects: At least four municipalities will participate in pilot projects incorporating field maintenance practices to reduce impacts to water quality outlined in the new operations and maintenance manual.
4) Project Publicity and Outreach: Pilot communities will promote new water quality friendly practices with outreach tools including signs, flyers, press releases and promotional material.
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