Save our streams project / final report prepared for Coastal resources division / Tidewater administration

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TASK 14

SAVE OUR STREAMS PROJECT

FINAL REPORT

COASTAL RESOURCES DIVISION
TIDEWATER ADMINISTRATION

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RECREATIONAL/COMMERCIAL FISHERIES PROGRAM
FISHERIES DIVISION
TIDEWATER ADMINISTRATION

GWYNNS FALL RESTORATION CAMPAIGN
CONTRACT END FINAL REPORT

Included in this report is a listing of each piece of the scope of work outlined in the
contract, and an explanation of the activities performed by Maryland Save Our Streams staff,
volunteers, and consultants that fulfills each section.

1. Manage Gwynns Falls Restoration Project and Develop Strategy and Methodology
that can be Transferred to Two Other Watersheds Draining into Bay:

The first part of this piece is fulfilled by the work outlined throughout the rest of the
scope.

The strategies ad methodologies developed through Gwynns Falls Campaign have been
incorporated in numerous watersheds by the Baltimore County Citizens for Stream Restoration
Campagign, the Severn River Project, the Sawmill Creek Adoption project, and the Baltimore City
Restoration Campaign.

2. Conduct a study to determine the relationship between land use and and biotic
conditions in the Gwynns Falls watershed study to complement (the previous study entitled
"Characterization of the Gwynns Falls Watershed."

During the early months of the contract, staff continued preliminary research on the
Gwynns Falls land use and benthic study. Staff met with Richard Klein, former SOS Executive
Director, to coordinate past with future work on this project. In addition staff talked with
watershed community leadership regarding the possibility of working with volunteers to gather land
use data in the watershed for the study.

During this contract period, SOS contracted with Versar, Inc. to conduct a study
determining the relationship between land use and biotic conditions in the Gwynn Falls watershed.
This study would serve as an addendum to Versar's 1987 study entitled "Characterization of the
Gwynns Falls Watershed."

After discussion with Tidewater personnel, it was agreed that completion of the draft report
entitled "Assessment of the Relationship Between Landuse Patterns and Biotic Indices in the
Gwynns Falls, Maryland Watershed," by December 31, 1991, would meet the requirements of this
contract.

The draft report was delivered to Tidewater and SOS by December 31 for comment and
review. The report was reviewed by Abby Markowitz, SOS; Howard King and Michael Bowman,
Tidewater; Niles Primrose, MDE; and Richard Klein, Community and Environmental Defense
Associates.

AJI comments were reported to Versar by January 15, 1992. Tbe, final report will be
available by the end of February, 1992.

3. Research, design, and construct an urban retrofit device ln*at least one watershed
community and develop a citizen participation testlcontrol retroflt program with the goal
of quantifying the degree of water quality improvement associated with various methods
of reducing the effecm of urban run-off from residential areas.
In the early months of the contract period, staff conducted preliminary research and
outreach into coordinating this project. During this time, staff met with the head of the Baltimore
County Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management (DEPRM) stormwater
management bureau to discuss the county's role in the retrofit project. Staff also mtt with the
head of Brightwater Inc, to discuss this consulting firms potential participation.
lbrough discussions with Baltimore County and possible consultants It was decided to forego
Scotts Level Branch (the original sub.watershed targeted) in favor of Gv,@,mnbrook,.a tributary of
Gwynns Falls in the Owings Mills community of western Baltimore County, In this way, the
resources of the Restoration Campaign could be combined with the Trout Stream Restoration
Committee.

This committee, consisting of SOS, Trout Unlimited, Baltimore County, and Owings Mills
New Town, is charged with instituting a retrofit project on a mile of trout stream in the Crvynns
Falls. Due to the construction of Owings Mills New Town, and the potential degradation of Red
Run, it was decided by the parties listed above to work to restore a section of trout Stream in
another sub-watershed. It is anticipated that construction will be unde@yay by 1993.

During this contract period, SOS worked with the other members of the Committee tc)
develop a plan for the research, design, and construction, of an urban. retrofit device in the
Gvqnnbrook watershed.

Upon implementation of the device(s), DEPRM will work with SOS to activate a citizen
participation test/control ret'roflit program with the goal of quart&@ing the degree of water quality
improvement associated with various methods of reducing urban run-off from residential ar@as.
In December of 1991, DEPRM documentect its commitment to this project with a lettcr
of certification to Howard King of Tidewater. It was agreed botween SOS and Tidcwiter that this
lcttcr would nicet SOS's obli(_Yatinn outlined under this contract,

4. Prepare, develop, and otherwise produce one or more specific pubijeations or mediu
presentations for distribution that demonstrate method5 to reduce nun-point source run.
off into Gwynns Fulls and other streams. Publications shutil(I address contamination of
oil, household wastes, lawn wastes, sewage, sediment, stormwater, simple explanations and
graphics for stream and bay ecology, All publications must be approved by the
Department.

Throughout the summer and fall of 1991, staff researched and began writing and layout
work on an Urban Retrofit brochure which will be used in the Gwynns Falls and other watersheds.
The brochure describes the definition of an urban retrofit, the effects of urbanization upon aquatic
resources, the methods of reducing impacts of primary sources of water quality/quantity degradation,
government retrofitting projects including infiltration, and community retrofit projects.

A first draft of the brochure was reviewed by SOS staff during the last week in August.
Staff also worked to develop a timeline and strategy for mass publicity and distribution of this
piece.

After an inventory of existing literature, discussions with community leaders, and an initial
in-house review, it was decided to expand the brochure into a booklet in order to explain how
communities can work with government to install better stormwater management devices in their
communities, and what to expect if a retrofit is planned for their community. Following
discussions with Tidewater it was decided to extend the completion date for this project to January
31, 1991.

Prior to publication, the booklet went through the approval process within the Department.
Additionally, the draft publication was reviewed by Vince Berg of MDE and Jim Gracie of
Brightwater consulting firm.

The final version is a 27 page booklet titled, Losing Those Stormy Weather Blues:
Stormwater Management and Urban Retrofitting. The publication addresses stream environments
before and after urbanization and discusses community and governmental methods to reduce the
quantity and improve the quality non-point source pollution in existing communities. The
publication is not specific to Gwynns Falls, and can be used as an educational and training tool in
any urbanized watershed.

Copies of Stormy Weather Blues are enclosed with this report.

5. Directly contact a total of 75,000 residents or businesses in the Gwynns Falls
watershed and at least two other watersheds to distribute the specific publications, by
direct mail, telephone, and door-todoor contact.

Press releases announcing the publication of Stormy Weather Blues were distributed to over
60 print, television, and radio media in the Baltimore metropolitan area during January 1992.
Contacts were targeted to all watersheds in Baltimore County, Baltimore City, and Anne Arundel
County. Announcements appeared in many publications including the Anne Arundel County The
Evening Capital (circulatin of 45,000) and the Anne Arundel County Sun (circulation of 53,000).
WJHU-FM in Baltimore conducted an interview with staff, aired in late January, discussing the
effects of stormwater run-off and the availability of the booklet. WJHU has a listening audience
of 5000-9000.

Additionally, the availability of the publication in January 1992, was announced at meetings,
events, and presentations made by SOS staff and volunteers.

Due to these announcements, SOS has received calls from numerous citizens, community
groups, and reporters requesting copies of th booklet. Copies of the booklet are sent out as the
requests come into the SOS office.

6. Conduct a minimum of 5 workshops to train volunteers how to monitor the
general aquatic health of a waterway, and how to reduce pollution from the home, yard,
and business. All workshops shall have a curriculum to be approved by the Department
prior to conduction the workshop.

During the course of the contract period, SOS staff and volunteers organiezed and conducted
several workshops that educated and tarined participants on the natural stream environment,
restoring neighborhood waters, and methods utilized by citizens to monitor stream health and
reduce the effects of pollution from the home, yard, and business. Belowe is a list and explanation
of workshops conducted under this piece of the scope:

October 27, 1990, friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park
Restoration Campaing staff and community leaders from Friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin
Park (FOG/FLP) organiezed a stream clean-up workshop and activity of the Dead Run and the
Gwynns Falls in Leakin Park. Staff produced a flyer and did a radio interview for WQSR,
announcing the event. The flyer was distributed throughtout the community by members of
FOG/FLP.

On Saturday, October 27, the Friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park, Maryland Save Our
Streams, the Gwynns Falls Restortation Campaign, Millrace Tavern, and Coors Brewing Company
co-sponsored the clean-up of Dead Run and the Gwynns Falls in the Park. Volunteers met at
10:00 am at the Tavern, received education and training on the "hows and whys" of trash removal,
and were divided into teams for the clean-up. Representatives from Coors were on hand to
distribute mugs as prizes to the participant.

The clean-up was a follow-up activity to the Coors company's national Clean Water 2000
Campaign which selected the Gwynns Falls Project as a watershed program that they would sponsor
locally. Earlier in October, Coors sponsored a simulated "Duck Race" in the Gwynns Falls. At all
point of sales in the area, consumers could send in a form guaranteeing them a "duck." WGRX
was recruited to publicize and announce the race. All winners received prized donated by Coors.
Through all this, Coors publicized the Gwynns Falls Clean-Up as a way for consumers to continue
their commitment to the Gwynns Falls.

November 14, 1990 Lower Gwynns Falls Communities
During late October and early November staff worked with the Baltimore City Department
of Planning and the Friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park to organize a workshop titled, "Gwynns
Falls/Middle Branch Puclic Meetin: Green Space, Public Access, Jobs, and Business."

The agenda included discussions of existing conditions in the watershed and immediate and
future restoration plans in the lower Gwynns Falls.

Approximately 35 community leaders attended the workshop. Participants learned that
restoration goals in the watershed require community education and outreach programs like those
of the Gwynns Falls Restoration Campaign.

November 28, 1990 and November 20, 1991 Baltimore RESCO
Staff worked with personnel of Baltimore RESCO to prepare for their annual fish releases
into the Gwynns Falls. Ont the above dates, staff conducted workshops on the natural stream
environment to Westport Elementary school children at the event. The BALTIMORE SUN,
Channel 13, and Channel 2 have covered the fish releases. The Resotration Campaign continues
to work with RESCO to promote education and restoration ideals throuhout the watershed.

Staff and SOS leadership has continued to develop a relationshiop with RESCO personnel
to expand their participation in and commitment to the Restoration Campaign. In the summer and
fall of 1991, RESCO personnel joined the Board of Directors and the Corporate Advisory Board
of SOS. RESCO has offered their facility for workshops and other educational events, has
expressed the deisre to house a permanent Gwynns Falls display, to work with their staff and other
resources in doing outreach to communities throughout the watershed, and help to build and
expand the Gwynns Falls base in the business community.

March 27, 1991 Maryland Student Service Alliance
Staff facilitated two workshops at the Maryland Student Service Alliancer Conference on
March 27 at UMBC. Over 70 Maryland students participated in the classes which focused on their
commitment to the environment, particularly the students' local streams. The students received
literature on SOS programs including the Restoration Campaign and will be working with fellow
students in an effort to have each school adopt a stream.

April 2, 1991 Carrie Murray Outdoor Education Center
On April 2 staff conducted a workshop for the staff and volunteers of the Carrie Murray
Outdoor Education Center. The purpose of the workshop was to train participants on how the
Center can best use Save Our Streams and the Gwynns Falls Restoration Campaign a a resource
for their stream education program. The Carrie Murray Center will use the resources of the
Campaign to train the many students and community members in the Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park
area to become active in the Stream Restoration Campaign.

May 7, 1991 UMBC
On May 7, staff met with a class from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
(UMBC) to conduct a whorkshop and training on the kick-seine technique for water quality
assessment. The group met on Dead Run and received information about the citizen monitoring
efforts in the watershed and were encouraged to get involved with existing programs.

May 9, 1991, St. Paul's Luteran Church
On May 9, staff conducted a workshop for the St. Paul's Lutheran Church group to present
several Save Our Streams programs designed to monitor and improve the quality of water in the
Gwynns Falls as it flows through their community. The group met again in June to prepare for
a Stream Cleanup that was held in the Fall of 1991. The members of the group expressed a great
deal of interest in working closely with the City to expand the Campaign in their area and to
organize several Adoption Activities as well as a Dumpbuster Program based on the Carrie Murray
Outdoor Education Center's (CMOEC) model.

May 9-10, 1991, Citizen Monitoring Conference
On May 9-10, SOS staff and leadership from the Friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park
(FOG/FLP) conducted workshops during the regional Citizen Monitoring Conference on Solomon's
Island. FOG/FLP's Dead Run Project was a featured "success story" during the conference.
Workshop participants, from watersheds throughout the Chesapeake bay region, learned how to
educate and train volunteers, and how to organize and implement volunteer restoration and
monitoring projects. FOG/FLP's relationship with the Gwynns Falls Restoration Campaign figured
prominently in these workshops.

May 6-May 24, 1991, McDonogh School
On May 6 staff met with McDonogh High School's Rollins-Luektemeyer Scholars to
coordinate a three week workshop of the Red Run sub-watershed of the Gwynns Falls. The
students conducted a series of restoration and adoption activities to determine the conditions and
to help improve the water quality of Red Run. The activities included a Watershed Survey, Stream
Survey, Construction Site Inventory, Water Quality Assessment, Storm Drain Painting and a Stream
Cleanup. The students worked with the Baltimore County Department of Environmental
Protection and Resource Management (DEPRM) to arrange for stenciling supplies and disposal
of litter. The group also sent press releases to local newspapers to announce the study and assisted
in developing strategies for involving more watershed residents in the Restoration Campaign.

On Friday, May 17, these students were trained on stormwater management by staff
members as part of their Community Service Project. The students spent the first portion of the
day watching a slide show on stormwater management, then participated in a discussion on the
types of devices used for management. A tour was given to explore an extended-detention pond
and a dry pond in Owings Mills.

The students brought their three week community service period to a close on Friday, May
24. The group spent their las few days painting the message "Chesapeake Bay Drainage-Don't
Dump" on the storm drains in the Tollgate and Sunnybrook Farms neighborhoods which are in the
Red Run watershed. The drains' around the Owings Mills Town Center were also stenciled. The
group also spent time doing a cleanup of the portion of the Gwynns Falls that runs through their
campus. To formally record their experience the students wrote letters to their local County
Councilmen and the County Executive revealing their findings and sharing their support for
waterway improvement programs.

Due to the success of this three week intensive program, McDonogh plans to work with
the Restoration Campaign to introduce more student groups to coordinated activities on Red Run,
Horsehead Branch and Gwynnbrook over the next year.

7. Provide technical support to at least rive community groups throughout the terms
of this contract. The Department may also designate the community groups. Technical
support to include but not be limited to: definition of problem, strategy, approach,
technical rationale for reducing adverse impacts on waterways in
residential management to save streams, sediment and stormwater control, buffers for
streams, and status of health for streams.

During the course of this contract period, staff has worked with many community and
community-based groups to provide technical and organizational support. Below is a listing of the
organizations along with explanations of the kinds of support provided.

Friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park (FOG/FLP)
Staff continued working with FOG/FLP to plan and implement their 1991 activities on the
Gwynns Falls and the Dead Run. FOG/FLP worked with students for Woodlawn High School
and the Carrie Murray Center volunteers to implement water quality monitoring on the Dead Run.
Towards this end, FOG/FLP applied, with SOS assistance, to the Chesapeake Bay Trust for funds
to support the ongoing restoration and educational work of the Dead-Run Project

Additional support to FOG/FLP included preparation for a tree planting. The group
scheduled March 16 as a day to focus on maintenance of the trees that have been previously
planted and to plant several hundred more. The Bay Forester for Baltimore County was alerted
of this effort and worked with the group to order the trees.

Federation of Jewish Women's Associations
On March 14, the Gwynns Falls Restoration Campaign had a display at the Federation of
Jewish Women's Organization's annual Community Service Fair in Pikesville. Throughout the day,
staff worked with local residents and introduced them to the work of the Restoration Campaign.
Approximately 175 members were in attendance. Issues concerning water quality and stream
restoration in the Gwynns Falls were addressed.

Dickeyville Community Association
Staff made presentations to the Dickeyville Community Association to discuss the groups
commitment to the health of the Gwynns Falls. During March of 1991, staff coordinated with
Dickeyville leadership and the Bay Forester to plan for a tree planting.

Gwynns Falls Yale Interns
In August, 1991 staff offered support to a group of Yale Interns working with Baltimore
City and the communities of the Gwynns Falls. These Interns are associated with the Trust for
Public Land and are housed in the Leakin Park section of the Gwynns Falls. Areas of

coordination Included citizen water qualiqty-monitoring, ongoing volunteer projects in the watershed,

and the development of greenways in the city section of the watershed. Staff and Restoration
Campaign leadership worked with these interns in the coming months to develop and implement
these projects.

Villa Nova Community Association
A Gwynns Falls community leader from Villa Nova worked with the Restoration Campaign
to organize a presentation to the Community Association to educate the group on water quality
issues and to encourage them to get involved in stream restoration activities. On March 20, 1991
this volunteer made a presentation to the association about the natural stream environment and
the Restoration Campaign.

Hilltop Community Association
On March 5, 1991 staff met with a community leader and long time Restoration Campaign
volunteer from Hilltop Estates in Woodlawn, to discuss plans for the Community Association to
become active In the stream restoration process. Their stream of immediate interest is the main
stem of the Gwynns Falls between Liberty and Windsor Mill Roads.

On March 21, staff met with the group to discuss their role in the stream restoration
process, Subsequently, members of Hilltop Estates agreed to work with the County Department
of Environmental Protection and Resource Management (DEPRM) to conduct a Clean-Up of a
section of the Gwynns Falls.

On April 5, staff me, with a volunteer from the Hilltop Community Association to finalize
plans for the Gwynns Falls cleanup to be held on April 14 at the 2nd Precinct Police Department.
Save Our Streams supplied the group with bags and gloves.

This Cleanup was undertaken in response to a request made by the Windsor Mill Police
Precinct to have the trash along the stream removed in an effort to improve the appearance of the
new police station for their dedication ceremonies to be held April 18. The Association followed
this activity by stenciling about twenty-seven storm drains in the watershed.

Baltimore Committee for Earth Day
Staff offered support to leadership in the Baltimore Committee for Earth Day to coordinate
Earth Day 1991 centered activities in the Gwynns Falls. Earth Day Committee leadership was sent
a list of upcoming events in Baltimore County, including the Gwynns Falls, that were publicized
in Baltimore Resources.

Staff distributed and delivered the materials for the Earth Day activities on Friday, April
12. Bags, gloves, and literiture were delivered to participating community groups.

Gwynns Falls Schools
Several times during this contract period staff met with Dr. Ben Poscover, Secondary
Science Education Supervisor for Baltimore County, to coordinate the incorporation of restoration

and adoption activities in the school curriculum. Dr. Poscover plans to develop a "guide" for
educators to use to teach their students how to, do water quality and construction site monitoring.
This program will increase the amount of stream data available for the Gwynns Falls and its
tributaries.

Materials for Baltimore County Secondary Schools, including 40 Water Quality Assessment
kits, were delivered to Dr. Ben Poscover. A core of Baltimore, Science teachers will be using these
materials to teach other teachers and students about.the importance of stream quality and student
activism as part of the curricula requirements in Maryland.

Staff worked with a faculty moderator from Seton Keough High School to plan a storm
drain stenciling and tree planting in the Maiden's Choice area for Spring 1991.

A dozen drains are were stenciled and approximately six trees were planted. Staff spent
time working with the group to supply stencils, a slide show, literature, and other training materials
on the activities.

Two student leaders from Franklin Senior High School worked with the Restoration
Campaign to organize a clean-up of the Upper Gwynns Falls with their Environmental Club. The
students plan to contact property owners along the stream to ask for their support of this project
and ask permission to access the stream through their grounds. Staff been invited to speak
to their school.

Owings Mills eco-Green Action (OMc2GA)
During the contract period, staff extend various support services to OMEGA, an
environmental group in Owings Mills. OMEGA adopted the Gwynns Falls from the headwaters
to the Beltway (695).
On January 18, 1991, staff and leadership of Owings Mill Green Action (OMEGA) held
a worksession to discuss the formation of a Streams Committee. Staff assisted in the development
of this committee and in the implementation of their adoption and restoration activities.

On Thursday, January 24, staff and Restoration Campaign leaders met with 30 members of
the Owings Mills Green Action (OMEGA). Approximately two-thirds of the group agreed to sit
on the Planning Committee to coordinate stream restoration activities for 1991.
On Thursday, February 21, staff met with the twenty members of the newly-formed Owings
Mills Green Action (OMEGA) Streams Committee. The committee discussed the importance of

stream restoration and preservation and considered a variety of projects they could organize on the
Gwynns Falls. As a result, a Stream Survey of the Gwynns Falls and Red Run was planned for
March 16. The purpose of the Survey was to involve volunteers in identifying and recording
potential pollution sources in, and immediately around, the stream.

On March 16, OMeGA hosted 40 volunteers for their Stream Survey of ten miles of the
mainstem as well as Red Run and Horsehead Branch. Staff assisted in the organization and
implementation of this project.

In addition, staff worked with OMEGA to research property ownership and the land
preservation process in hopes of protecting wetlands in the Red Run area

On April 28, participants gathered at the Owings Mills Recycling Center to take part in
radio station 92 Star's Recyclathon. The day's events were held in celebration of Earth Day 1991
and activities included Storm Drain Paintings as well as a cleanup of Reisterstown Road as it runs
through Owings Mills. Save Our Streams and Gwynns Falls Campaign literature was available and
the Gwynns Falls Frog made an appearance. The event was sponsored by OMeGA.

The Streams Committee of OMeGA organized a Storm Drain Painting Project around the
Owings Mills Subway Station. Many Owings Mills and Reisterstown area residents have joined in
the effort to help their neighbors recognize the connection between storm drains and the Bay.
Over forty drains were painted during the month of May 1991.

0MEGA has also Implemented a series of Cleanup activities along the main stem of the
Gwynns Falls in response to the overwhelming amount of trash that was found during their March
16 Stream Survey. The first Cleanup activity was held on May 4. Over forty-five volunteers met
at the Owings Mills Subway Station to receive a briefing on the day's activities. The group broke
into teams and began to pull leftover tornado debris and other miscellaneous trash from the section
of the Gwynns Falls that flows between Chatsworth and Bond Avenues. The group gathered at
the end or te day to celebrate with cookies and juice that had been donated by a local health
store.

OMEGA's Streams Committee met on May 30 to plan for the remaining Cleanups and
asked Restoration Campaign staff to join them to discuss ways to have local community groups take
rcsponsibility for cleaning the section of stream that runs through their neighborhoods. Staff also
worked with the Streams Committee Chair to provide assistance with the completion of their grant
application to the Chesapeake Bay Trust. The group requested and received runds to enable them
to continue organizing stream restoration activities In the Gwynns Falls and to educate and broaden
the base of interested citizens who will work with the Restoration Campaign.

During the summer and fall of 1991, staff worked with OMeGA to devolop and implement
strategies for educating citizens on sediment and erosion control.

Sacred Heart Church
In February 1991 staff met with the pastor and a member of the star[ to discuss the
church's adoption of the headwaters of the Gwynns Falls as part of the Archdiocese's Global
Horizons Program. During the meeting a stream tour was taken to evaluate accessibility and to
pin-point specific problcm areas.

On March 5, staff made a presentation to approximately 30 members of the congregation.
As a follow-up, staff offered technical and organizational support for the church's clean-up of the
gwynns Falls on April 20.

On April 20, 1991, over 90 volunteers -gathered at Sacred Heart Church in Glyndon to clean
up the headwaters of the Gwynns Falls. Two dumpsters of trash were collected while additional
debris was set aside for recycling. The group was organized by a local boy scout in conjunction
with the Restoration Campaign and several local community associations attended. Staff continued
meeting with the Clean-Up Planning Committee to discuss a strategy to keep the April 20th
participants active in the Gwynns Falls Restoration Campaign.

Chartley Townhouse Community Association
Staff assisted a leader from the Chartley Townhouse Community Association (CTCA) with
the organization of their community Steam Cleanup that was held on May 4, 1991. The group
cleaned up the portion of the Gwynns Falls that flows below Bond Avenue behind' their
townhomes. Staff provided the Association with bags, gloves, and training materials. Leaders from
both OMEGA and Chartley met on May 4th while conducting their cleanups and members of the
CTCA have agreed to assist OMEGA in their effort to clean up the remainder of the Gwynns
Falls above the beltway.

St. Paul's Episcopal ChUrch
During Spring 1991, staff worked with a leader from Glyndon to prepare him to train his
church group on the natural stream environment and the Restoration Campaign. The leader
arranged for staff to teach a group of campers about the natural stream environment and Water
Quality Assessment later in the summer.

Scout-Troops
During February, 1991 staff worked with a Gwynns Falls Boy Scout leader to coordinate
education and restoration activities in the 5udbrook/Pikesville Area. The activities will be designed
to both educate and motivate scouts to action.

In late spring, staff worked with a leader from a Cub Scout Pack in the Reisterstown area
to organize his troop. The group carried out a c1ean-up of one of the northernmost tributaries of
the GWynnS Falls on June 22.

8. To introduce 3,000 or more volunteers to the One Million Mary]anders Campaign.
The Department will provide One Million Marylander's Campaign Literature.

In February and March of 1991 door-to-door canvassers distributed Restoration Campaign
information in the communities in Gwynns Falls. The canvassers distributed information to
approximately 300-500 citizens per week. The piece for distribution consisted of a call for
communities to participate in SOS programs including the Gwynns Falls Restoration Campaign as

well as a listing of upcoming events coordinated with Million Marylanders, Baltimore County, and
the Chesapeake Clean-Up Camapaign.

In January, February and March of 1991, staff worked to coordinate community tree
planting information between the Greenshores Program, Million Marylanders, "Tree-Mendous
Maryland," Chesapeake Clean-Up Campaign, and Baltimore County. Coordination of resources and
information assisted Gwynns Falls communities in implementing tree planting activities for Earth
Day.

During this time, staff also worked with DEPRM to distribute a letter encouraging
community leaders to apply for Chesapeake Bay Trust grants in order for communities to plant
trees in April.

On Wednesday, January 30, 1991 staff met with Chris Stuhlinger, the Bay Forester to
discuss the tree planting process. Several Gwynns Falls communities, including Friends of Gwynns
Falls/Leakin Park and the Dickeyville Association scheduled tree planting programs for April.

Staff took phone calls from watershed residents who wanted information on tree plantings.
Several wanted to get involved with groups while others wanted only a few seedlings for their back
yards.

On August 6, 1991, Sylvia Bell from the Cable TV show "Surprise Yourself" conducted a
half hour interview with Deborah Ward, Save Our Streams' Deputy Director and Nancy Ancel of
the Chesapeake Clean-Up Campaign (CCC). Discussed were all SOS projects including those
involving the Restoration Campaign, Million Marylanders and the Chesapeake Clean-Up Campaign.
During the summer, the show aired twice on Tuesdays evenings from 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm and
Wednesday jornings from 8:30 am - 9:00 am and will reach over 100,000 people in Calvert,
Charles and St. Mary's Counties.

In addition to the above activities, Million Marylander literature is distributed to volunteers
at all workshops, presentations, and events sponsored by SOS during the year.

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