NOTTINGHAM, MD – Baltimore County has initiated the Lower Gunpowder at Seven Courts stream restoration project. A community meeting had been held in October 2016 to discuss the project. Baltimore County will be restoring approximately 5,000 linear feet of degraded stream and habitat from Naygall Road to India Avenue along a tributary of the Lower Gunpowder River. The tributary crosses […]
TOWSON, MD – County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced on Friday that offers had been made to preserve five farms totaling 561 acres in Baltimore County through the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation. The Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation made offers to five farms in Baltimore County through the Fiscal Year 2019 State easement process. The offers were scheduled to go […]
NOTTINGHAM, MD – The Maryland Department of Natural Resources reported this week that Chesapeake Bay underwater grass abundance fared better than expected in 2018, despite extreme rainfall causing a spike in nutrients and sediments. An estimated 50,015 acres of underwater grasses were mapped in Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay. Baywide, about 91,559 acres of underwater grasses were mapped in […]
MIDDLE RIVER, MD – The Bowleys Quarters Marine Emergency Team rescued a lost kayaker earlier this week. On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at about 6:45 p.m., the unit received word that a kayaker had been missing for over 4 hours. Based on last known location information provided by the caller, a search of the Gunpowder River in the area of […]
UPDATE: The stranded individual has been rescued with no injuries reported. Original story below… —— Emergency personnel are performing a Thursday evening water rescue along the Gunpowder River. At just after 5 p.m., the White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company reported that crews were searching the river between Belair Road and Philadelphia Road after receiving a report for an overturned kayak […]
The Maryland Natural Resources Police are attempting to locate the owner of a kayak that was found in the Gunpowder River. The yellow Cobra Tandem was found in Harford County’s Joppatowne Canal on Tuesday morning. The kayak did not have any registration numbers on it. The rightful owner is asked to call MDNRP at 410-260-8888.
Baltimore County Councilman David Marks announced on Thursday that construction will begin on June 1st on a project to improve the tributary of the Lower Gunpowder River between Pinedale Drive and Klausmier Roads. Contractors hired by Baltimore County will restore approximately 2,500 linear feet of degraded stream using Natural Design Techniques. “Over the past two decades, Baltimore County has focused […]
The state is investigating the deaths of nearly 6,000 fish in Baltimore County waterways this month. The Maryland Department of the Environment says the dead fish were spotted in local waterways, including the Gunpowder River and Bird River. MDE spokesperson Jay Apperson says that preliminary results would seem to indicate that algae-created toxins are the probable cause. The fish kill […]