Green Towson Alliance has been organizing stream cleanups of local streams and tributaries of the Herring Run and the Jone Falls since it was founded in 2015. This April, 127 volunteers (including 17 children) cleaned trash out of the stream beds and banks and from the alleys and storm drains that funnel trash into the streams. At some sites, invasive English Ivy was cut from the trees and garlic mustard was pulled out. In all, teams at 8 locations collected 109 bags of trash and recyclables, and 16 bags of invasive weeds. In addition, unusual […]
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2025 Towson Stream Cleanups
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See the findings from the survey put forth by the Maryland Native Plant Coalition.
Continue readingGreen Towson Alliance discovers sanitary sewer overflow below the Lake Roland Dam after heavy rains on Tuesday, January 9th
Sanitary sewage debris at a sewer “stack” and its manhole cover lying on the ground were discovered on January 10 by a volunteer from Green Towson Alliance (GTA). The overflow near the banks of the Jones Falls was reported to Blue Water Baltimore, Baltimore County Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPWT) and Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Wednesday’s discovery was in the same area where GTA volunteers found a Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) in 2019. The current overflow coincides with Baltimore County Council’s pending approval of the 2023 Triennial Review of the Water […]
Continue reading164 Volunteers Cleaned Out More than a Ton of Trash from Towson Streams this Spring
Volunteers from neighborhoods all over Towson helped to clean up 2,857 pounds of trash from tributaries of the Herring Run and Roland Run this spring as part of Project Clean Stream for the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. Every year, Green Towson Alliance organizes these cleanups in Towson, and this year, nine cleanups were held in April. These youngsters helped look for trash in the Herring Run stream in Overlook Park. GTA members Kathleen Brady (pictured) and Diane Topper led the Wiltondale Garden Club cleanup in the Wiltondale Community. Some unusual items pulled out of […]
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