Green Towson Alliance celebrated 10 years of the combined efforts of manypeople and community liaisons to create a greener and healthier environment inall the neighborhoods that consider Towson their downtown. Over 70 people attended the birthday party on Thursday, May 22 2025, in thecourtyard at Central Presbyterian Church. Festive party lights and GTA’s 4th ofJuly parade props of trees, bees and butterflies decorated the space, organizedby Allison Schulze. A native plant swap started the evening. GTA co-founders Carol Newill and BethMiller presented a brief program summarizing the two main areas of GTAactivities: Hands-On (trees, streams, […]
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GTA Statement on 2023 Triennial Review of the Water Supply and Sewerage Master Plan
Green Towson Alliance (GTA) and other advocates have challenged the sanitary sewage capacity in the Jones Falls Sewershed since 2016 and are convinced that raw sewage is fouling open waters while more development is being approved. A network of pipes run alongside and under our streams to carry raw sewage from our homes and businesses to treatment plants. The state of Maryland has laws that require the conveyance of this waste to be safely contained within the sanitary sewer system. But in Baltimore County’s Jones Falls watershed, the size and condition of these pipes is […]
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