Water

Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Pens Joint Letter to Maryland Board of Public Works on Days Cove Rubble Landfill Lease and Permit with Gunpowder Valley Conservancy and Mad About Mud

To inform the state’s decision making process on the leasing and discharge permitting for the Days Cove Rubble Landfill, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER®, Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, and Mad About Mud co-authored a letter to submit to the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW) prior to their January 7th 2026 meeting. As the Maryland BPW had only considered …

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WYPR’s John Lee and Baltimore Sun’s Natalie Jones Cover Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young’s Proposed Data Center Moratorium

On January 5th, 2026 Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young proposed Bill 3-26 which would put a one-year freeze on data center construction in Baltimore County in response to residents’ concerns over a proposed 42-acre, 150-megawatt data center in Woodlawn. According to John Lee’s article in WYPR, The Catonsville Democrat’s legislation, which he introduced Monday night, …

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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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Updated Definition of “Waters of the United States” Public Comment Period Open: Please Comment on WOTUS by January 5, 2026

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released updated definitions for what constitutes Waters of the United States (WOTUS) on November 17th, 2025. The comment period on the proposed definition change ends January 5th, 2026. Updated language reduces the scope of federal jurisdiction over Clean Water Act permitting by defining terms like “relatively permanent,” “continuous surface …

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