Watershed Restoration

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The Maryland Watershed Restoration Assistance Directory offers one-stop shopping for anyone interested in finding funds or technical assistance to implement projects that restore Maryland's streams, rivers, bays, and watersheds. Included are programs offered by a wide range of entities, including federal, state, and local governments, nonprofit organizations, and private foundations. 

Trees provide life-giving oxygen and food, regulate temperatures, sequester carbon, and yield raw materials for building.  Trees also are a source of simple beauty and they utilize nutrients as they grow. If you look at the cost of buying and maintaining trees, they are a pretty good bargain when it comes to improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. 

Introduction to the use, planning and building of rain gardens.

Permeable hardscapes help manage stormwater (surface water from heavy rains or snow) and are an alternative to hard surfaces. Materials used as permeable hardscapes allow stormwater to seep into the ground (permeate) rather than pool in low spots or run off into storm drains or local streams.

A conservation landscape is a garden that improves water quality, promotes and preserves native species, and provides wildlife habitat. Conservation landscaping replaces hard surfaces or turf grass of a traditional lawn with native plants. There are many social and environmental benefits that result from installing a conservation landscape.

Hard surfaces such as roofs increase runoff by preventing rain water from being absorbed into the ground.

Rain barrels and cisterns are devices that are placed at the end of downspouts to collect rainwater and store it for later use.

Salisbury Watershed Stewards Academy

October 2023 WSA Newsletter