[Chat] Fw: More trees to be planted on our reservoir lands

[Schlegel, William B CW4 RES USAR USARC]

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From: "Baltimore Public Works" <baltimorecity at alerts.baltimorecity.gov>
To: <william.schlegel at us.army.mil>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 4:42 PM
Subject: More trees to be planted on our reservoir lands


dpw FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 11, 2012  [ 
http://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/MDBALT-570072?reqfrom=share ]

*Prettyboy Watershed Alliance Receives Grants*

*More trees to be planted in the watershed** *

Public Works Director Alfred H. Foxx today congratulated the Prettyboy 
Watershed Alliance on receiving two grants from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. 
The grants, totaling $5,666, will be used to plant trees in the Prettyboy 
Watershed this fall.

The Prettyboy Watershed Alliance is a citizen-led group of local residents 
committed to protecting and restoring our land and our streams that drain to 
the Prettyboy Reservoir. Its mission is to promote landowner stewardship, 
build public-private partnerships and advocate watershed protection and 
restoration.

“Since 2003, our tremendous partners at the Prettyboy Watershed Alliance 
have planted 5000 trees to help protect our vital drinking water as well as 
to restore the natural forest and wildlife habitat,” said Director Foxx. 
“Trees are essential to preventing runoff and they absorb pollutants which 
would otherwise enter our raw water supply.”

Prettyboy, on the Gunpowder Falls, is one of three Baltimore City-owned 
reservoirs. The others are Loch Raven, downstream from Prettyboy, and 
Liberty on the North Branch of the Patapsco River. These provide excellent 
quality drinking water to 1.8 million people in the region every day.

The Prettyboy Watershed Alliance will hold its next tree planting on 
Saturday, October 20, 2012 from 9:00am - 1:00pm. Volunteers are welcome! To 
learn more please contact: Program Project Manager Ben Larson at 
benbrorlarson at gmail.com or you can call him at 443-676-5074.

For more information on our reservoir lands, please contact the Media and 
Community Affairs Division at 410-545-6541.



 Contact: Shonte' Eldridge Kurt Kocher Telephone: 410-545-6541 Telephone: 
410-396-4511 email: Shonte.Eldridge at baltimorecity.gov 
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email: Kurt.Kocher at baltimorecity.gov <Robert.Murrow at baltimorecity.gov>

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