Earlier this month we published our Spring Newsletter. You can read it in its original format here, or you can read a updated version below [Text in brackets is new]. Since our last newsletter, we have won an award! Thanks to Chesapeake Bay Trust, we received a grant to host the Maryland Climate Corps ‘All …
We recently opposed a special exception zoning change #2025-001-X from RC-5 (Rural Residential) to a solar farm, as the change stands to replace 15 acres of forested land home to a vernal pool and a stream. Impacts from the proposed project could carry excess sediment and warm water into the Little Gunpowder Falls. Supporting Bill 18-25 …
Please join Gunpowder Riverkeeper in attending the Virtual Hearing for MDE’s Hampstead Wastewater Treatment Plant Discharge Permit. Listed Below are links to the hearing and the original document. From MDE: MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION NOTICE OF TENTATIVE DETERMINATION AND PUBLIC HEARING Carroll County Application for State Discharge Permit 22DP0594, NDPES …
We have moved the date to remove the Forsythia to Tuesday, June 25th from 10:00 am-1:00 pm at Sparks Nature Center 1207 Sparks Rd., Sparks, MD 21152 We hope to have a large group of volunteers that day! Since it will be late in June, it should be a nice time to take a walk …
Please join us on Tuesday, June 18th from 9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., cool off in the Gunpowder River, discover aquatic insects and learn about their life stages! Participants will learn about insects as important indicators of stream health.