Urban Waters Voices: Mary Rickel Pelletier

This video features Mary Rickel Pelletier, Director of Park Watershed, Inc., describing some of the challenges faced by watershed communities in Hartford, CT (e.g. lack of access and lack of awareness of the “buried” river) and how the organization is using art and science to address these challenges.

Park Watershed, Inc. (www.parkwatershed.org), a nonprofit organization (formerly Park River Watershed Revitalization Initiative), sees its goal as working through community engagement, scientific research, and ecological revitalization to cultivate clean water and healthy urban environments within the municipalities of the Park River regional watershed.