Herring Run Watershed Association
$25,000 / 2004 / Environment
Toward staffing costs to increase local efforts to restore the Herring Run Watershed. The association has played a major role in environmental monitoring of illegal industrial dumps and sewage pipe leakages, and has advocated for stream cleanups, tree plantings, installations of rain gardens, and other bio-retention modifications in homes and schoolyards.
Maryland Environmental Service
$25,000 / 2004 / Environment
For the production, installation, and monitoring of Reef Balls (artificial reefs) as part of the Department of Natural Resources’ Artificial Reef Project. The program will help restore degraded or damaged natural reefs that are home to oysters and fish in the Chesapeake Bay.
Center for Watershed Protection
$50,000 / 2003 / Environment
For continued support of the Builders of the Bay program, designed to convene a series of county roundtable task forces. These roundtables investigate existing building codes and ordinances in their respective counties and make recommendations to their planning commissions, to ensure that each county’s building codes are environmentally sensitive and economically feasible.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
$5,000 / 2003 / Environment
In support of the 2004 Environmental Legislative Summit.
The Chester River Association
$5,000 / 2003 / Environment
For partial funding of the position of a riverkeeper to monitor activity on the Chester River, so as to protect water quality and biodiversity from degradation. As changes in land use impact the watershed, the riverkeeper is expected to maintain a presence at local planning boards and keep the public informed about best conservation practices.