Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® will be putting our skills into practice to measure stream health with Izaak Walton League’s Save Our Streams protocol on two Saturdays in October, once on the 10th and again a week later on the 17th. Both days will start at 10 am and should end by 1pm. At each of the sites, …
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 …
Join us, Chesapeake Bay Trust, and your fellow invested community members for a Community Input Session to discuss possible projects to put the available funding to use. Who: Chesapeake Bay Trust, your neighbors, and you What: Listening Session to hear from community members on their project priorities for Restoration and Remediation funding Where: Mariner Point …
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 …
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. The EPA’s Safe Swimming Criteria …