Monitoring

Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Intern and Morgan State Doctoral Student Chichedo Duru Published Peer-Reviewed PFAs Paper in 2026

Chichedo Duru continued her work on water quality monitoring, publishing a study entitled “Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Occurrence in Gunpowder River Watershed in Maryland United States” in Water 2026’s special issue “Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Soil and Water Environment.” Duru worked with Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Theaux Le Gardeur and two former Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® interns …

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Deliberation Continues on the Days Cove Rubble Landfill Update

Thanks for Sapna Bansil at the Baltimore Banner, Natalie Jones at the Baltimore Sun, and John Lee of WYPR for their coverage of the latest update for the Days Cove Rubble Landfill. In what many are seeing as victories for the public and the environment, the operators of the landfill have removed their request to …

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Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Partners with Blue Water Baltimore for Little Falls Bacteria, Optical Brighteners, and Road Salt Monitoring

Wednesday December 17th, Blue Water Baltimore’s Sarah Holter and Dri DeLuca made the trip up from the city to Sparks Bank Nature Center for a day of collaboration and water quality monitoring on the Little Falls. They brought with them their YSI, Aquafluor, and a wealth of knowledge from their monitoring programs that Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® …

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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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