Is there a proposed development that might threaten your community or environment? Evaluate it.

Check out this check list: ceds.org/Checklist.pdf A 2-page Checklist from our friends at Community & Environmental Defense Services to help evaluate any proposed activity that might threaten your community or environment. Topics covered in the checklist are: · Clean Water, · Traffic Congestion & Safety, · Schools Overcrowding & Safe Streets, · Tree & Forest […]

Volunteer with your family to plant trees this Fall!

Preventing Development Impacts – Flooding, Traffic, Aquatic Resources & School Overcrowding

Community & Environmental Defense Services sent us these helpful links/webpages for information about preventing development impacts.   A ratio of more than 20 students per teacher is generally considered undesirable.  In fact, 12 states have adopted laws requiring a ratio of 20 students or less per teacher.     Flooding & Watershed Development; and Traffic, […]

Stream Link Education plants 400 trees along Glade Creek

Stream Link Education, along with 25 volunteers planted along one side of Glade Creek, noting that cows still have access to the creek on the other side!  We have learned that the landowner on the other side is working on fencing out the cows and is interested in stream buffer restoration as well.  Great news!  Glade […]

4/23/16 Calling volunteers to give a few hours for EARTH DAY!

Celebrate EARTH DAY by supporting the “Is This Erosion?” campaign April 23rd:  get some photos of stream bank erosion, free pizza and a t-shirt  A new campaign to raise awareness about how sediment can affect water quality has launched in Frederick County. “Is This Erosion?” encourages community members of all ages to use a website […]

Countdown to 2017: risks to the Chesapeake Bay

Check out this Center for Progressive Reform report Countdown to 2017 Five Years In, Chesapeake Bay TMDL at Risk Without EPA Enforcement Executive Summary When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (Bay TMDL) out of local TMDLs for 92 individual Bay segments in 2010, reactions were polarized. Supporters […]

October 4th Clean Up: 960+ gallons from Rock Creek

And, a trailer full of bulk trash.  Thanks to a great group of Water Watcher volunteers we did all this in just 2 hours!  Join us October 25th from noon to 2 for more.  RSVP to [email protected]

Rock Community Pride on Rock Creek!

    With generous support from Wells Fargo, Friends of Frederick County has launched the “Clean Water – Healthy Kids” campaign to clean streams, plant trees and help residents understand the connection between clean streams, drinking water, health and civic pride. We invite you to be part of the Rock Creek clean up team.   […]

9/5/13 LTE: Environmental Good Stewardship

Environmental good citizenship Posted: Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:00 am While Farrell Keough makes some good points on environmental decision-making authority in his Aug. 19 letter to the editor, I would add that the general public can also contribute to making our environment cleaner and healthier. Recently I learned about a Friends of Frederick County […]

EIP report: Frederick County discharges 111,158 pounds of nitrogen/year over permitted level

Last week the Environmental Integrity Project released its report The Clean Water Act and the Chesapeake: Enforcement’s Critical Role in Restoring the Bay (December 2012)  Appendix A in that report shows the Ballenger McKinney Waste Water Treatment Plant discharging  111,158 pounds of nitrogen each year over the permitted level.  It is the worst offender in the entire […]