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By Frank Roylance | June 19, 2009
After all this rain, Greg Koppenhoeffer of Ellicott City wondered whether Baltimore's reservoirs were full yet. He looked for numbers online but found none. The city hopes to post reservoir data on a new Web site sometime this summer. Call Public Works, and they'll say Loch Raven and Prettyboy are full. Liberty is rising at 98.9 percent. Combined, they're at 99.4 percent. Plenty.
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By candy thomson | September 7, 2008
D on Roberts is a fisherman. Nearly four decades ago, he was lucky enough to marry a kindred spirit. Every year Don takes Letty Roberts out fishing for her birthday. So when Aug. 12 rolled around, instead of lighting 67 candles, the couple launched their boat at their local fishing hole, Prettyboy Reservoir. Don knows a thing or two about Prettyboy. For 35 years, he fished the reservoir with Duke Nohe, the acknowledged guru who knew every hump, bump and lump where bass hang out. Nohe, who died almost four years ago, could land a bass the way Chuck Yeager landed jets.
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By CANDUS THOMSON | September 7, 2008
D on Roberts is a fisherman. Nearly four decades ago, he was lucky enough to marry a kindred spirit. Every year, Don takes Letty Roberts out fishing for her birthday. So when Aug. 12 rolled around, instead of lighting 67 candles, the couple launched their boat at their local fishing hole, Prettyboy Reservoir. Don knows a thing or two about Prettyboy. For 35 years, he fished the reservoir with Duke Nohe, the acknowledged guru who knew every hump, bump and lump where bass hang out. Nohe, who died almost four years ago, could land a bass the way Chuck Yeager landed jets.
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By PHOTOS BY JOHN MAKELY | July 10, 2006
The Prettyboy Dam, completed in 1933, created Prettyboy Reservoir. Gunpowder Falls, the river below the dam, has become an ideal spot to cool off, hike along the trails and get away from the city.
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By CANDUS THOMSON | October 24, 2004
Duke Nohe was the best friend Maryland fishermen didn't know they had. As president of the Maryland Aquatic Resources Council, he worked tirelessly on everything from lobbying for new fish stocking trucks to holding certain officials' feet to the fire. Quietly. Duke died Tuesday morning the same way. "There wasn't anybody who worked harder and longer for Maryland fishermen than Duke Nohe," said Jim Gracie, a founder of the Maryland chapter of Trout Unlimited and former chairman of the governor's Sport Fisheries Advisory Commission.
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By Childs Walker | September 17, 2003
Governments in Baltimore, Baltimore County and Carroll County should intensify efforts to monitor water quality and preserve forests and farmland in the Prettyboy Reservoir watershed, according to a report released this week by a national conservation group. The Trust for Public Land spent more than a year studying the watershed, an 80-square- mile expanse in Baltimore County, Carroll County and York County, Pa., that serves 1.8 million water customers in the Baltimore metropolitan area.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | May 13, 2003
Our cups runneth over. At 3 p.m. yesterday, Baltimore's Liberty Reservoir reached capacity, the last of the city's three water storage lakes to fully refill after the drought of 2001-2002, city public works officials said. Loch Raven Reservoir, which suffered the least during the drought, was the first to fill up again, in January. Prettyboy Reservoir was full by April 1, after draining to just 16 percent of capacity at the depths of the drought seven months ago. Liberty topped out yesterday after falling to a low of 34 percent in October.
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By Mary Gail Hare | April 8, 2003
Seeking to protect the land surrounding a large portion of the metropolitan area's water supply, a group of conservationists, government officials and neighbors of Prettyboy Reservoir is working this week to find ways to protect the reservoir's watershed. As a weeklong conference on the health of the watershed started yesterday, participants said they would explore issues such as agricultural pollution and runoff from development. Among the primary concerns of the "stewardship exchange" is the declining amount of forestland in the watershed, which extends from Baltimore County to Carroll and to York County, Pa. "The forests are the best things that can happen for water quality," Rob Northrop, watershed forester for the state Department of Natural Resources, told a group of about 50 people gathered at a restaurant near the reservoir.
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By Mary Gail Hare | April 8, 2003
Seeking to protect the land surrounding a large portion of the metropolitan area's water supply, a group of conservationists, government officials and neighbors of Prettyboy Reservoir is working this week to find ways to protect the reservoir's watershed. As a weeklong conference on the health of the watershed started yesterday, participants said they would explore such issues as agricultural pollution and runoff from development. Among the primary concerns of the "stewardship exchange" is the declining amount of forest land in the watershed, which extends from Baltimore County to Carroll and to York County, Pa. "The forests are the best things that can happen for water quality," Rob Northrop, watershed forester for the state Department of Natural Resources, told a group of about 50 people gathered at a restaurant near the reservoir.
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By CANDUS THOMSON | March 16, 2003
The yellow perch run was pretty much a bust. The Susquehanna Flats is colder than my ex-mother-in-law's heart. And the Potomac is high and muddy. Good thing St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow and spring begins Thursday. Looking for a little cheering up, I called Kevin McComas at the Loch Raven Fishing Center. "We're waking up, stretching out and knocking the ice off things," he said. "There's 4 inches of ice in the coves, but it's spongy. A couple of warm days and it should be gone. The main lake opened up last week."