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Cleanup Season There are three cleanups scheduled for the upcoming months. If you know of others, please send info to lowsusriver@hotmail.com. Saturday, May 10 • 8 am - 4 pm • Saginaw, York County A dumpster, trash bags, gloves and lunch will be provided by a grant through the Watershed Alliance of York (WAY). All ages are welcome. Come all day, or just for a couple hours. Tell all of your friends! Saturday, June 7 • Lower Susquehanna River Island Cleanup • York/Lancaster Saturday & Sunday, June 21 & 22 • 9 AM - 5 PM • Codorus Creek Cleanup • City of York P.S. There will be Smallmouth fishing after the cleanup. Last week I caught a 16 inch smallie and a 12 incher that was 3 inches wide with eggs. I also had one that was bigger, but it leaped out of the water, and threw off the hook… really! Eugene Kraybill was there to see it. Thanks again for everyone’s support during my “down time” with the broken leg. Hope to see you all out on the river soon! Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper® Joins in Filing Lawsuit Against MD Department of Agriculture for Transparency to Nutrient Management Plans “These plans are available for review in Pennsylvania and there is no reason that factory farms in Maryland cannot share their pollution control plans with concerned citizens,” said Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper® Michael Helfrich. Read the full HometownAnnapolis.com article here. Also view the Waterkeeper press release (PDF) about the lawsuit. Conowingo Dam Sediment Sign-On Letter We've been working with citizens from Harford and Cecil Counties, and throughout the Bay watershed to have the Conowingo Dam sediment issues addressed. To this end, Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna drafted a letter, got other groups to sign on, and got it to the Governors in time for their Chesapeake Executive Council annual meeting. After last week's meeting, Governor Rendell of PA said it would be one of his, and the Chesapeake Executive Council's priorities. Grassroots work by MD and PA residents got this onto the Council's agenda, and you are responsible for getting this important issue back on the radar. Thanks to everyone who signed on, and its not too late to help. We still need to gain more support from the state legislators, so we'll keep adding signatures and using this letter to gain support. Here's a link to the letter that you or your group can sign: "The Story of Stuff" with Annie Leonard Please follow the link below to view the "The Story of Stuff", a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. It just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever – the electronics, toys, clothes, and other material goods that we in the United States use to express the meaning of the holidays and, at other times of the year, our very own personal value. Sediments and the Conowingo Dam In September, the Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper visited two U.S. Congressmen and staffers from ten other Congressmen and all four MD and PA Senators on Capitol Hill to discuss the Conowingo Sediment threat. Not addressing these sediments could lead to a catastrophic scouring of tens of millions of tons of sediment and nutrients and/or an annual increase of up to 250% in sediments from the Susquehanna to the Chesapeake. Both of these results could devastate the Chesapeake Bay and wipe out years worth of efforts to restore the bay. These effects have been documented by the agencies concerned with improving the bay, but nothing more has been done since 2001 due to lack of funding. On November 4th, Congressmen Gilchrest and Platts began talks with SRBC, EPA, the Chesapeake Bay Program, and the Northeast Midwest Institute to determine how we can address this single biggest threat to the Chesapeake Bay. These same agencies have encouraged SOLS to continue our leadership on this issue, and to increase our public education efforts. To this end, we've created a two-page summary to be shared with politicians and other members of the environmental community or academia, and a condensed single page fact sheet for the public. We hope to educate the public and our decision makers on this dangerous situation on the Lower Susquehanna, a situation that some have compared to the failure of government to act on the New Orleans levees before Katrina. Please download and share this information on "Sediments and the Conowingo Dam : The Biggest Single Threat to the Chesapeake Bay" with anyone interested, particularly your state elected officials. Conowingo Sediment Scientific Overview Mud in the Run: Failures at Construction Sites Runoff from Factory Farms Makes News
9.12.07 : Comments Delivered to the DEP
Artist Steve Rudy Contributes to Our Cause
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