Trash in our streets and parks is a big problem in Baltimore. On Monday, January 19th 2015 join residents across the city and county to start doing something about litter. We’ll begin by tackling this problem, one piece of litter at a time. In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, Blue Water Baltimore…
Blue Water Baltimore’s new Pollution Reporting Form makes it easier than ever to pinpoint the location of pollution using GPS coordinates or a street address. In fact, accessing the form with your smartphone will automatically fill in your current GPS coordinates if you are at the site of the pollution incident. We encourage you to…
We are pleased to announce the launch of our Baltimore Harbor Water Alert website. The new website is a one-of-a-kind design that displays water quality data for Baltimore’s Harbor, rivers and streams in an interactive mapping format. The new site features: Ability to measure and map water health and pollution in the Patapsco and its…
In mid-November, 260 volunteers joined staff from Blue Water Baltimore and Gunpowder Valley Conservancy to remove trash from local streams during the annual Better Waterways Fall Cleanup. At ten cleanup sites, seven in Baltimore City and three in Baltimore County, our amazing volunteers who cleaned up 10,000 pounds of trash! Together we also worked to…
With the support and volunteer efforts from students at Sudbrook Magnet Middle School, Blue Water Baltimore partnered with the school to design and install two gardens on school grounds. What made this greening effort successful were the more than 300 students who worked together to create what they call their “Hope Garden”. We asked those…
Resist the urge to bag up the leaves from your yard, sidewalk, or roadway. Leaves from you trees provide natural fertility to your turf grass, offer crucial shelter for overwintering wildlife, and are a free source of mulch for your garden beds.
Homeowners in the Greenmount West neighborhood worked with Blue Water Baltimore’s Water Audit Program to transform their urban rowhome patio into a local backyard oasis. Blue Water Baltimore provided information and guidance on the process to make the project affordable through rebates for reducing stormwater runoff. With the guidance of Blue Water Baltimore, the rowhome…
In many ways, Guanabara Bay in the State of Rio de Janeiro faces many of the same water quality challenges today that the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland started dealing with more than thirty years ago. Just as trash, toxic pollutants, sewage and stormwater runoff are a challenge to the health of Baltimore’s streams and harbor…
The 2013 Healthy Harbor Report Card is out, and Baltimore’s waterways have received a grade of “F”. Sanitary sewer overflows, illicit connections to our stormwater system, and other chronic pollution issues continue to plague our city and contribute to these failing grades. Last year the grade was a “C-“: even though we saw quantitative improvement in…
Imagine you are out kayaking in the Gwynns Falls on a hot and sunny day in mid-July. It hasn’t rained in a week, yet somehow as you paddle past a large stormwater outfall you see a steady flow of water discharging into the river. Would you think this is strange? After all, it has been…