Monitoring

Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Attends North American WATERKEEPER Summit in Pittsburgh, PA

Thursday November 13th and Friday November 14th, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER®’s Theaux Le Gardeur attended the Pittsburgh conference in-person and staffers attended virtually via the live-stream to network with WATERKEEPERS across the continent. Highlights from the live-stream included a session on tips and tricks for leveraging dollars, disaster response strategies, making “non-traditional” allies, and monitoring how road …

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Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Team Presents at 31st Annual Maryland Water Monitoring Council

Thursday November 20th, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER®’s Theaux Le Gardeur, staff, intern, and volunteer met at the Maritime Conference Center in Linthicum for the 2025 Maryland Water Monitoring Council Annual Conference. 475 people attended the 31st iteration of this event focused on Embracing Innovation to Protect and Restore Maryland’s Waters. The day began with keynote speakers Jeremy …

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Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Receives Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Training

On October 2nd 2025 Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® staff and volunteers met at the Hammerman beach house to take part in training provided by the state of Maryland Department of Natural Resource’s (MDNR) Brooke Landry, Kaitlin Scowen, and Erika Koontz on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV). Their organization Chesapeake Bay SAV Watchers has been tracking the population of …

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Overpass of Landsat-9 Calls for Tidal Monitoring on the Gunpowder River

Chesapeake Water Watch Program October 7th marked a day that Landsat-9, a NASA/USGS satellite, made one of its many overpasses of the Chesapeake Bay. With that date on their calendar, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® rushed to Dundee Creek Marina to untie the skiff and get out on the water. The Landsat-9 has been given the task taking …

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Gunpowder River Water Quality Summary: Summer 2025

Gunpowder Riverkeeper is proud to provide weekly water quality information to residents of Baltimore and Harford counties along the Gunpowder and Bush River Watersheds. Our water monitoring results help inform the public on where they can recreate safely along the River and provide indicators for possible stormwater or point-source pollution. When our samples indicate E.Coli …

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