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 …
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® …
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 …
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 …
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 …