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Public Invited to Stream Restoration Webinar series
Stream restoration is a complicated and passionate debate for many and can even be quite polarizing. It is not a black and white subject and
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Anacostia Watershed Survey
We Want to Hear from You The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is working to improve the way we communicate with our residents. We are
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Pollution Prevention Week- Stormwater Management Facilities
Tools in the fight against plastic pollution: Did you know that stormwater management facilities can often keep plastics out of the Chesapeake Bay?
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Stream Critters - Yellow Lance Mussel
Introduction Can animals that look like rocks and are capable of trickery and bloodsucking have a positive effect on water quality? What if those same
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Stream Critters - Marbled Salamander
Introduction Marbled salamanders are marvelous critters. These thin-skinned, cold-blooded salamanders - and frogs and toads - survive winters without coats. That’s amazing. Salamanders can lose
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Stream Critters - Giant Stonefly
Introduction Picture this: an ancient adult stonefly lands on a stegosaurus. The stegosaurus doesn’t notice. The stonefly is looking for a mate, not a huge
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Help Reduce Water Pollution
When it rains, there is water (storm water runoff) that is not absorbed into the ground. Instead, it flows down different surfaces such as rooftops,
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Stream Critters - Acuminate Crayfish
Introduction “Look! Right there! Under that rock in the middle of the stream! Is that a lobster?” Nope. It’s a crayfish, the smaller freshwater cousin
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Stream Critters
Introduction Eels have mystified people from Aristotle who thought they developed from earthworms to young Sigmund Freud who couldn’t find what makes a male eel
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