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The “Do’s & Don’ts” of Street Tree Care

Street Trees Save Lives The life of a street tree isn’t an easy one. Urban trees face stress resulting from the heat island effect, concentrated air & water pollution, compacted soils, and vandalism resulting from vehicle and pedestrian traffic – to name just a few. Yet street trees are a crucial part of city life….

Stormwater flowing into a storm drain on a street.

April Showers Don’t Just Bring Flowers

We’ve seen lots of rainfall this April, and these April showers don’t just bring flowers. Baltimoreans may be experiencing flooding, sewage backups, and other effects of wet weather. At Blue Water Baltimore, stormwater is always on our mind. We want to share more about what stormwater is and how you can help mitigate its effects. …

Matt Stocker (Research Associate at USDA Agriculture Research Service)pictured with text overlay that reads "Perhaps a farmer could eventually fly a drone over his field and use the imagery as a surrogate for some of these other expensive measurements."
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From Boats to Drones: Matt Stocker’s (’11) Journey to the USDA

It’s not often that you hear of drones being used to measure water quality. That’s exactly what former Blue Water Baltimore intern Matt Stocker (’11) is doing. A Research Associate at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Matt Stocker is part of a team of researchers testing drones as tools for water quality monitoring efforts….

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Baltimore Water Watch: Presenting Our 2018 Water Quality Scores

How’s the Water, Hon? Blue Water Baltimore is thrilled to announce the launch of our new water quality mapping platform: www.baltimorewaterwatch.org!  We worked with the experts at Chesapeake Commons for our new innovative approach to data visualization.  For the first time ever, we are able share in-depth information about the specific measurements of water health…

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From Singapore to Baltimore: An Intern Looks at Water Quality

[Note: Yuan Hao Wong, author of this guest post, is interning with Blue Water Baltimore this summer.  Here is his story.]  Hi everyone! I am Yuan Hao Wong an undergraduate majoring in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. I am elated to be interning at Blue Water Baltimore for the next two months with my…

Blue Water Baltimore Intervention in EPA Agreement Ruled “Untimely”

Blue Water Baltimore Executive Director Halle Van der Gaag today released the following statement in response to a U.S. District Court recent ruling denying the organization’s citizen intervention in a 2002 consent decree between Baltimore City, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) requiring the City to fix the sewer…

We Deserve a Pollution Diet for the Bay AND our Local Waterways

My name is Tina Meyers and I just started two weeks ago at Blue Water Baltimore as the new Baltimore Harbor WATERKEEPER for Blue Water Baltimore.  I am SUPER excited to be your new on-the-water advocate, and I can’t wait to get to know our supporters in more depth.  However, there is an urgent issue…