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Victory! Court Rules in Favor of Blue Water Baltimore and requires EPA to act on Stormwater Pollution

ByBWB Communications

A federal district court in Maryland ruled last week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wrongfully denied our petition to regulate stormwater runoff from commercial, industrial, and institutional sites in the Back River watershed. Blue Water Baltimore and its allies took this fight against dangerous stormwater discharges to court so that polluters who contribute…

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Village Blue Brings Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring to Baltimore Harbor

ByBlue Water Baltimore

Gushing water main breaks, chronic sewage overflows, and “fatbergs” in the pipes – when it comes to Baltimore’s failing infrastructure, sometimes it feels like we’re the only city dealing with these seemingly insurmountable problems. We often get asked during our Pollution 101 training events whether Baltimore is alone in its struggles for clean water, but the answer is…

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Taking Our Data to the Next Level

ByBlue Water Baltimore

Today, Blue Water Baltimore, the home of the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper, announced that our tidal water quality monitoring program has achieved Tier III status through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program (EPA CBP). This is the highest standard set by EPA for non-traditional monitoring entities, and means that the tidal data we routinely…