On a bright morning in May intrepid volunteer David Farkas pulled on the waders for his first ever outfall screening blitz with Blue Water Baltimore … Our screening blitz volunteers perform a vital role in helping us identify pollution entering our waterways through Baltimore City’s stormwater system, whether in the form of sewage, water main breaks,…
You may have heard about our Clean Water Community Healing Project, a collaboration between Blue Water Baltimore and MedStar Harbor Hospital to reshape **25 acres** of their campus with green infrastructure. We’ll be busting up asphalt and concrete, installing stormwater management features, planting healing gardens, and creating new habitat for wildlife and pollinators. This will…
Blue Water Baltimore is proud to be a founding partner of One Water Partnership, which provides free expertise and technical support to communities of faith in the Jones Falls Watershed to promote greater environmental stewardship and more effective stormwater management. Recently, participants had the opportunity to join a bus tour of some of the partnership’s…
Blue Water Baltimore and MedStar Harbor Hospital are pleased to announce that we have selected Stormwater Maintenance, LLC as the prime contractor for the Clean Water Community Healing Project! This is a major milestone in what will be our largest restoration project to-date, and we are thrilled to have such an excellent team of partners…
Investments in stormwater management projects are paying off according to a first-of-its-kind study of water quality in the Gwynns Falls watershed. This analysis from Blue Water Baltimore, the United States Geological Survey and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, shows real impact in curbing pollution but also the challenges we face from aging infrastructure and climate…
I grew up in public housing in Cherry Hill. Back then we had cherry trees all around, with little tiny cherries. Then the blight came along in the sixties and wiped them all out. Cherry Hill was the city dump for Baltimore then too. Where I grew up was 200 yards away from that dump….
Last week Blue Water Baltimore joined members of Govans Presbyterian Church to break ground on an exciting new $135,000 stormwater project. Though it might be hard to tell from blueprints and place markers, this will soon be the site of an impressive cleaning machine for our waterways. It all starts with a pond; well, not…
The president of the Mondawmin Neighborhood Improvement Association called me up about PhotoVoice. She said Blue Water Baltimore had this project going and they were asking residents to go around the community and take photographs of things, both positive and negative, from the resident’s perspective. And I said, “Well, that’s something I really want to…
People might have heard of us, but they just don’t know. Even when you look at maps of Baltimore City, Belair-Edison isn’t on there. They stop at Clifton Park and leave us out. But we have two of the major parks in the city, two major high schools that have been here for nearly a…
I’ve lived in the Greater Mondawmin area for the past 32 years. We have so many assets here; people just need to see it. My first project with Blue Water Baltimore was a stenciling project for stormwater remediation. We got the kids together, got 18 stormwater drains stenciled. Then we went back and cleared the…