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Corporate Partnerships Lead to Cleaner Streams

As part of the spring 2026 Project Clean Stream season, the Alliance teamed up with multiple corporate partners to help clean waterways across the watershed.

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A No-buy Wardrobe Year

Like many folks, I started 2026 with some goals to improve my life. Chief among them was to not buy any new clothing for a full year.

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Wandering Delmarva’s Waterways: Protecting Local Waterways through Collaboration and Informed Decision-Making

Across Delmarva, land use decisions shape water quality, economic development, and community resilience. This spring’s Wandering Waterways tour brought together 31 local leaders from Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.

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Digging into State Soils: Virginia’s Pamunkey

In 1999, Pamunkey was proclaimed the official state soil of Virginia. Pamunkey was chosen to represent Virginia because of its deep connection to the James River.

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Taste Early Bird tickets extended!

There’s still time to get your early bird tickets to the Taste, and celebrate clean water, our Fran Flanigan Awardee, and our Watershed Champions across the Bay.

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Annapolis Blues and The Alliance Team up to Clean Up

Project Clean Stream is all about teamwork, so who better than the Annapolis Blues Football Club to help us clean up College Creek?

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School is out, but Chesapeake wildlife is hard at work

For wildlife in the Chesapeake, it’s time to get to work. From the water, to the land, to the sky, summer for many species is breeding and nesting season.

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What’s Poppin’? Beech Leaf disease

Over the past decade, another disease has been on the rise in a prominent tree species in Northeast forests – American beech. The disease? Beech leaf disease.

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July: El sol

It’s hot out there in the watershed this time of year. Whether you’re experiencing the suffocating urban heat island effect in Washington D.C., Richmond, VA, and Lancaster, PA…or the open fields of central Maryland, the sun is impacting you.

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Digging into state soils: Maryland’s Sassafras

Sassafras was chosen to represent Maryland because of its massive footprint and high agricultural productivity, presenting few limitations for most land uses.

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