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Make Every Drop Count: Build Your Own Rain Barrel!

Make Every Drop Count: Build Your Own Rain Barrel!

Rain barrels are an easy way for you to harness stormwater, lower your water bill, and reduce pollution in our streams. And, if you build your own rain barrel at one of our workshops this spring it’s an economical way to help your local watershed. The workshop registration is just $65 per barrel, and each workshop lasts…

Rain Barrel Workshops Q & A

We’re coming up on workshop season, which means it’s time to consider attending one of our Fall rain barrel workshops on either Sunday, September 7 or Sunday, October 5.  Join Blue Water Baltimore and build your own rain barrel to take home. With a considerable discount off the standard price, our workshops are community events to help…

Stormwater runoff

Stormwater Runoff Stormwater runoff is the leading cause of nutrient and sediment pollution in Baltimore’s waterways. In our urban region, pavement and other impervious surfaces cover more than 45% of Baltimore’s landscape, preventing rain from soaking into the ground. Stormwater Runoff What is stormwater runoff pollution? Every time it rains, trash, bacteria, heavy metals, and other pollutants are…

Working Together to Improve Water Quality – An Interview with Fiona Newton

Working Together to Improve Water Quality – An Interview with Fiona Newton

After leading Blue Water Baltimore for almost four years as our Board Chair, Fiona Newton is passing the torch to Kevin Shea in January 2019. We sat down with Fiona to talk about her journey with our organization, what she sees for the future, and what people might be surprised to know about her.  …

Blue Water Baltimore Goes To Washington

Blue Water Baltimore Goes To Washington

[Note: Elise Bruner is Blue Water Baltimore’s Community Organizer.] On March 2, Blue Water Baltimore’s Executive Director, Halle Van der Gaag, Stormwater Program Manager Erin Bennett, and I traveled to Washington, D.C. for Choose Clean Water Coalition’s annual Chesapeake Bay Day on Capitol Hill. Halle joined other environmental leaders from the coalition in encouraging legislators to…

Blue Water Baltimore In the News 2015
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Blue Water Baltimore In the News 2015

Read news articles about Blue Water Baltimore from media outlets in the Baltimore region and beyond. Get involved in the clean water movement and stay informed on major issues that are making headlines in the news. News and Press 2015 Solar-Powered Water Wheel Removes 350 Tons of Trash from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor December 17, 2015…

Blue Water Congregations

Blue Water Congregations

Through the Blue Water Congregations program, Blue Water Baltimore and Interfaith Partners of the Chesapeake are working with places of worship to implement projects on their grounds to help improve the health of our local waterways. Stormwater projects such as hardscape removal, pervious pavement, rain gardens, and rainwater harvesting with cisterns or rain barrels decrease…