West/Rhode Riverkeeper Among Grant Recipients
Winners of the Stream Restoration Challenge include the West/Rhode Riverkeeper and county public schools.
Five of 29 new grant recipients to help restore streams in the state are based in Anne Arundel County including the West/Rhode Riverkeeper, according to an announcement Friday by Gov. Martin O’Malley about the winners of the Stream Restoration Challenge. With the new grant program, the state hopes to establish 1,000 acres of forested stream buffers in Maryland by 2015 and improve Chesapeake Bay water quality while creating service learning and environmental literacy activities for students. The West/Rhode Riverkeeper, led by County Councilman Christ Trumbauer (D-6th District), earned nearly $40,000 in special funding in August to help restore local shorelines. The money went specifically to helping a local woman restore about 410 feet of …
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