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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@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.
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