The Patuxent 20/20 Report is an intensiveky researched strategic plan that reviewed publicly available documents and research studies and consolidated the findings into a visionary implementation plan to protect the Patuxent and bring it back to health. You can download it here. Patuxent 2020 Plan (2)
A Barbershop is where people go to get better grooming, but it is also a place where you can hear gossip, get information of interest, or just say what is on your mind in a place where almost anything goes. Basically you get to “let down your hair” hence the term Barbershop! The “Waterkeepers Barbershop” is a virtual location where nobody actually gets groomed but where Chesapeake Waterkeepers say what’s on their Keep Reading
The latest edition of the Patuxent fact sheet contains handy stats, facts and figures about the State’s longest and deepest instrastate waterway. Compiled and produced by local biologist Nick Carter for the participants in the 2009 Patuxent Sojourn you can download a copy of it here:Summer 2009 Keep Reading
NRDC’s annual survey of water quality and public notification at U.S. beaches finds that pollution caused the number of beach closings and advisories to hit their fourth-highest level in the 19-year history of the report. The number of 2008 closing and advisory days at ocean, bay and Great Lakes beaches topped 20,000 for the fourth consecutive year, confirming that our nation’s beaches continue to suffer from serious water pollution Keep Reading
July 9, 2009; Area Riverkeepers discussed water quality problems with regional rivers on WAMU’s Kobo Nnamdi program. Riverkeeper Dottie Yunger (Anacostia); Fred Tutman (Patuxent) and Ed Merrifield appeared on WAMU(88.5) to field questions and discuss their work as guardians of three of the regions significant waterways. Host Kojo Nnamdi facilitated a flood of calls from radio listeners eager to ask questions about whether Waterkeepers are Keep Reading
They’re off! Yup the Annual Patuxent Sojourn has finally started. Intrepid paddle-journalist Lauren Webster and others will chronicle their trials and tribulations while paddling nearly 20 miles down the Patuxent over five days. The ground support team will be collecting photos and audio sound bytes and uploading them here for those of you on land to follow.
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies has posted their Keep Reading
Under sunny and blue skys, the 21st Annual Patuxent Wade-in went off without a hitch but with a twist. It is the last one….at least at the Broomes Island location. Broome’s Island is a sun drenched waterside community where Senator Bernie Fowler (ret) was born and for decades this was the focal point the Wade-In’s that spurred all the copycats or homages around the Bay and around the nation. Citing concerns about protecting Keep Reading
The Patuxent Riverkeeper Newsletter for Summer 2009 can be downloaded here in the Adobe Acrobat file format: Summer 2009 (26)
Patuxent River Earns “D-” second year in a row
The overall water quality health of the Patuxent River reveals no meaningful progress toward desirable water quality some 30 years after the State of Maryland embarked on efforts to clean Keep Reading
The 2008 Report card was produced and released in March of 2009. It was prepared in collaboration with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies: 2008 Patuxent Report Card (26)