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A Neighborhood-Focused Approach to Stormwater Pollution Prevention NFWF presents funding for the Edible Rain Garden project.The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay has partnered with Church Hill Activities and Tutoring (CHAT), a faith-based non-profit that serves at-risk youth in the East End of Richmond, to demonstrate how traditional rain gardens can be used to direct rainwater …
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The Alliance Pennsylvania office has had a busy year in successfully launching the TreeVitalize Streams program. Nearly 1500 trees have been planted in these Susquehanna River watersheds: Little Conestoga, Little Swatara, Letort, Mud Run, Pequea; and the West Branch of the Susquehanna. To date nearly 500 volunteers have either participated in buffer training workshops; involved in …
The Alliance held its annual fundraiser, The Taste of the Chesapeake, on Thursday evening, September 19, at Quiet Waters Park, in Annapolis, accompanied by starry skies, music by The Fiddle Oaks, and a sellout crowd of almost 300 sponsors, partners and supporters. Alliance Executive Director, Al Todd, along with the Chair of the Board, Alex Beehler, presenting …
I love the phrase, “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” Peter Levine, who wrote a book of the same name on civic renewal, cites the origin of this phrase in the poetry of June Jordan. It has been used in discussion of both the civil rights and environmental movements. There are some parallels. …
We’re thrilled to announce that we have added 20 new monitoring sites to our RiverTrends program. This spring, we trained new volunteers in the Richmond, Lynchburg, and tidal York areas to collect water quality data through our RiverTrends program. In Richmond, we partnered with the City of Richmond to train volunteers to collect field data …
The website highlights 12 different community “roles”, and the actions each can take in protecting nature and local waterways. In partnership with the Blair County Conservation District, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay has developed the educational website www.cleanblairwater.org to teach Blair County, PA residents about water quality and their local watersheds. What are the pollution threats to …
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) and the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake (IPC) have hit a new milestone with their Trees for Sacred Places Project (formerly 10,000 Trees)! Throughout 2014, 36 congregations have planted 1200 native trees, making the total count for the project 1,700 new native trees planted at 40 congregations! Mother …
On November 18th, leaders from Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Izaak Walton League of America, Virginia Citizens for Water Quality, and Virginia Water Monitoring Council, and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay renewed a long-standing commitment to partnering to give citizens the tools and trainings needed to accurately assess …
[imageframe link=”https://www.allianceforthebay.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/UphamBrook.jpg” ] Upham Brook is a tributary of the Chickahominy River that flows through the urban areas of Henrico County and City of Richmond. It is polluted by bacteria and other runoff contaminants. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is partnering with the Alliance and other community groups and county and city officials to do …
[two_fifth margin_top=”20px” class=”acb-img-container float-right-container” ] Project Clean Stream volunteer Shalisa Hutt poses with her daugher and nephews during cleanup of the Coty Cox Branch of the Wicomico River in Salisbury, Md. Photo courtesy of Chesapeake Bay Program.Project Clean Stream had an amazing turnout for 2014! This year 7,500 volunteers helped restore over 260 sites in …
