Press release and other updates.
In his October 13th article “The Chesapeake Bay is at its healthiest in decades, report finds” Adam Willis covers the latest report card for the bay released by University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). The report card grades the overall health of the Chesapeake at a C+, which ties the previous highest score …
Sarah Kestner is a proud Baltimore native and nature lover. Growing up in a peninsula community, she spent her childhood wandering through the woods and marshes where she learned to fish, crab, compost and care for others. Sarah moved to the lower Gunpowder River two years ago and became a vocal advocate for Mother Nature …
Thanks to Timothy Wheeler and The Bay Journal for the October 2nd article “Maryland fines developer for more Gunpowder tributary pollution” in which he covers the fines and penalties the Ridgely’s Reserve homebuilders have continued to accrue from Maryland Department of the Environment and Harford County in the months following the three party consent decree …
On Tuesday July 21st, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® staff: Theaux Le Gardeur, Brady Bayne, and Skidmore College intern Luke Kretschman were joined by Alex Fries of UMCES and Shane Mizelle of USGS at Dundee Creek Marina to complete a field audit. The purpose of this field audit was to ensure that the methods, training, documentation, and quality …
In his September 2nd article in The Bay Journal, “Pollution from development still flowing into Gunpowder River” Tim Wheeler discusses the ongoing sedimentation into Foster Branch from the D.R. Horton development upstream, despite the settlement in May to hold the polluters accountable. Wheeler states, This wasn’t supposed to keep happening. State officials had said the …