Headwaters Newsletter

Inside this Issue

• Dog Owners and Boat Owners BEWARE . . . of Each Other!
• Place-Based and Future Focused
• Watershed Restoration Assistance Directory
• Road Salts—Good for Public Safety, but Not for Water Quality
• Cornerstone Event Focuses on Chesapeake Bay
• To Take Down, or Not to Take Down—That Is the Question
• Turning a New Leaf

Inside this Issue

• Climate Pressures and Green Infrastructure — A Local Case Study
• What Would Bernie Do?

• Our Favorite Trees
• Dispatches from Sea Grant Academy
• Rain Garden Winterization
• Our Water — It Is All Connected and More Reasons To Protect It
• Water Quality and Sailing

Inside this Issue

• Highlighting Extension’s Work in a Baltimore City Community garden
• Walking the Talk of Equity and Inclusion
• Calvert County Supports Local Water Quality
• Watershed Stewards Academy retreat
• Money, Money, Money, Money...Money [Repeat: x 6] (think O’Jays)
• Groundwater’s Significance and Connection to Bay Water Quality
• Day Trippin’ on Delmarva

Inside this Issue

• Maintaining Your Septic System — the Key to an Effective and Lasting Investment
• The Watershed Assistance Collaborative — Maryland’s Water Quality Partnership
• WAC Partner Profiles: Chesapeake Bay Trust, Environmental Finance Center, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Maryland Sea Grant and Maryland Sea Grant Extension, Maryland Department of the Environment
• Five Questions with Bill Hubbard

Inside this Issue

• From Gray to Green
• UMD Senate — what’s it all About?
• ‘Tis the season . . . to put your best foot forward on your Trust Fund application
• Stormwater Permit Requirements
• Need Help Educating This or the Next Generation?
• Got Septic - Do You Know What Type?

Inside this Issue

• ANREP Membership has its Privileges
• Welcome Kate and Kelly
• Septic Systems — More than a Flush and Forget it Home Appliance
• Korea — Maryland Sea Grant Program Information Exchange
• Central Maryland in 2080: Predicting the Future to Plan for Today
• Our New Normal? I hope not
• Social Marketing Association of North America Inaugural Forum October 10

Inside this Issue

• What Can I Do With the Water?
• Why the Watershed Team Is a Better Fit Than Dating Apps
• Native Plants, Get Your Native Plants!
• A Change In Plans
• Touring Baltimore’s Jones Falls Watershed With the One Water Partnership

Inside this Issue

• Rain Tax Sturm und Drang: Was the Fee Repeal Worth All the Storm and Stress?
• Build It and They Will Come!
• The Perfect Storm for Lake Ontario
• Sustainable is Not Good Enough
• Slurping Our Way Toward Meeting TMDL Goals
• Only Rain Down the Drain

Inside this Issue:

• Increasing Stormwater Best Management Practice Adoption Rates
• What is the Trust Fund?
• Small Stream, Big Impact
• Is Where You Live or Work Served by a Regulated MS4?
• Outlander!
• The Journey of a Thousand Miles

Inside this Issue:

• Welcome Kelsey
• Welcome Alexis
• Small BMPs can make a BIG difference
• The Power of Design
• Small but Mighty
• How Vulnerable is the Maryland Coastal Bays Program?
• WSA Eligible for MSDE Credits

Inside this Issue:

• Bon voyage to a wonderful friend and colleague
• Greening with consistency
• Halfway there. . . midpoint assessment draws near
• Cost share for homeowner practices? Coming soon to a city near you!
• Preparing for winter
• Who's your watershed specialist?

Inside this Issue:

• Bay Clarity
• Fellowship Program Accepting Applications
• Go native!
• Recent review spottedon ConfAdvisor
• Training the Next Generation

Inside this Issue:

• Character Stream
• A Rain Garden Sign for the Four Seasons
• Outdoor Ethics for Patagonia and Your Local Park
• Does it need a boarding pass?
• Building Resilience from the Ground Up
• The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Pond Maintenance

Inside this Issue:

• Snowzilla vs. Clean Water
• The Stormwater Bachelor Returns
• SOILS – Nature’s secret weapon to achieve better water quality
• A Focus on Sea Level Rise and Coastal Inundation

Inside this Issue:

• Slowing the Flow at Oregon Ridge
• Hot on the Streets — the Outreach Program Audit Tool
• Seeking Tall, Attractive Native Grass to Help with Bay Clean-up
• Restoring the American Chestnut
• Risk Perceptions in Vulnerable Communities

Inside this Issue:

• The Susquehanna Flats: Epicenter of Research
• Landlocked: Developing a Study Abroad Course in Ethiopia
• The River Seldom Seen: Learning about the Lesser-known Choptank
• Project Based Learning with Chestnuts and Aquaculture: Professional Development for Teachers
• Adventures in Team Teaching: Educators Enliven the Green Youth Summer Program

Inside this Issue:

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• 4-H Bay Stewards Build Capital
• Howard County Students Take Weather to the Extreme
• Empowering Women Farmers in Afghanistan
• Stormwater Law and You
• Cecil County WSA – Off and Running!
• Southern Maryland Counties Support Watershed Restoration
• Changes to the Watershed Protection and Restoration Program, or "SB 863"

Inside this Issue:

• Dundalk Renaissance Corporation’s Fall Tree Give Away
• What is Social Marketing?
• Introduction to Stormwater Law and You
• The UME Land Use and Watershed Action Team
• Cecil County Stewards are Full Speed Ahead

Inside this Issue:

• Conservation Landscaping in Action
• SOS, SOS! Septic Owner Stewardship Clinics
• Stormwater Remediation comes to Maryland
• The Twins have Arrived!
• Watershed Assistance Collaborative
• What the Bay means to me…and a few million other Marylanders
• Chesapeake Quarterly

Inside this Issue:

• Finding the Food-Water Connection: Integrating Urban Agriculture and Urban Stormwater
• Designing Rain Gardens of the Future
• Marine Educators From Around The World Converge in Annapolis
• The Grass is Greener...in College Park
• From Research and Development to Implementation: Redesigning Living Roof Substrate

Inside this Issue:

• Spring has Sprung and Projects Abound!
• Saving the Bay…one Academy at a time
• Galesville’s Summerpalooza
• New weTable Technology Facilitates HABs Workshop
• Climate Corner: Examining the 2014 National Climate Assessment

Inside this Issue:

• A Tree Grows in Chestertown
• Need a Rain Garden? There’s an App for That!
• The New Website
• What’s The “Dib” with Stormwater?
• Climate Corner