On two Saturdays in October Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® staff Brady Bayne and Joe Ottomano led groups of volunteers to monitor water quality at two locations in the Gunpowder watershed using the Izaak Walton League of America’s Virginia Save Our Streams (VSOS) Macroinvertebrate stream monitoring protocol. Our first monitoring station was located at Big Gunpowder Falls and …
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 …
We’ve heard the questions: Where is the Middle River monitoring data? Why aren’t you monitoring Middle River? Since we’ve been able to increase our monitoring capacity, it’s time to expand our monitoring program on Middle River, but we still need your help! Do you have access to a dock on a Middle River tributary? If …
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 …
Join us between 10am and 1pm on Saturday November 7th 2026 to learn how to service the Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Wader Wash Stations located at 10 spots on the Big Gunpowder Falls. We’ll meet at Sparks Bank Nature Center and take a brief walk to the parking lot on the river to look at the closest …