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By Larry Carson, The Baltimore Sun | July 18, 2010
After 25 years working often literally in Maryland's trenches trying to help restore waterways that feed into the Chesapeake Bay, 53-year-old John L. McCoy came back to Columbia for a very special job. "I've come home," said the beefy, crew-cut and mustached new Columbia Association watershed manager. Five years short of a full state pension, McCoy, of Clarksville, resigned his Department of Natural Resources job to return to Columbia, where he had worked part-time for CA as a college student.
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By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | July 30, 2011
A pair of Chesapeake Bay Foundation employees left Annapolis Saturday morning on a 1,300-mile journey through the six states in the bay's watershed — by bicycle. John Rodenhausen and Beth McGee will attempt to ride through the 64,000-square-mile watershed, which stretches to Cooperstown, N.Y., and as far west as the Shenandoah Valley, to raise money for the Bay Foundation. They will spend their first night in southern Pennsylvania, pedal to New York and circle back through western Pennsylvania, then to Virginia and return via the Eastern Shore over the next three weeks.
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By Dana Hedgpeth and Dana Hedgpeth,SUN STAFF | October 30, 1996
Officials from Howard, Montgomery and Prince George's counties signed an agreement yesterday to protect the water supply of the Upper Patuxent watershed, which lies in the three counties.Howard County Executive Charles I. Ecker, Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry agreed to maintain the water quality of the Triadelphia and T. Howard Duckett reservoirs -- an area of 85,000 acres that overlaps into the three counties -- for the estimated 700,000 residents who get their drinking water from the watershed.
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By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun | May 15, 2011
Several hundred people got a new perspective on the Loch Raven Reservoir Sunday, watching the Gunpowder River pour over the spillway as they stood on the dam itself, just a few yards from the water. It was the Baltimore Department of Public Works' third Loch Raven Day, one day a year when the public is invited into an otherwise off-limits area for the unusual view. "It's awesome," said Dave Wilmot, a fire safety engineer from Lutherville, expressing a sentiment heard often during the unexpectedly sunny afternoon that drew families outdoors.
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By TOM HORTON | November 19, 1994
You'd think fish, of all creatures, would be smart enough to go with the flow.I was telling a group of fifth-graders about the amazing migrations of spawning herring and shad, how they used to climb the tributary rivers of the Chesapeake Bay, bucking the spring runoff for hundreds of miles, thrashing all the way from the ocean to upstate New York and the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.The kids were intrigued, and glad to learn that Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania are breaching and bypassing dozens of dams in hopes of restoring the historic runs.
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By Andrea F. Siegel and Andrea F. Siegel,Sun Staff Writer | November 18, 1994
Anne Arundel County should manage the 78-square mile Severn River watershed as one unit, rather than continue to allow piecemeal development, and repair environmental damage caused by older communities, a draft study for the Severn River Commission says.In addition, new communities in the watershed should be squeezed into clusters, leaving other areas pristine, while communities built before storm water control laws were enacted should be required to fix their drainage systems, the study says.