The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is offering $25 coupons off the purchase of trees with a retail value of $50 or more at participating nurseries around the state. The coupons can be downloaded from their “Marylanders Plant Trees” website. Please go out, purchase a tree, and plant it in your yard for the health of the South River and the Chesapeake Bay.
In an effort to introduce more water-filtering oysters in the South River, South River Federation participated in the state's Marylanders Grow Oysters program in their first year, 2009 - 1020. We currently have over 80 oyster gardeners with over 400 oyster cages suspended from either their private or community piers! WE WANT MORE GROWERS THIS YEAR!!!
Oysters can filter 50+ gallons of water a day - which translates into clearer water, and hopefully more SAV, which in turn provides habitat for crabs, fish and other river creaturs.
We are now collecting names of additional growers to participate in the 2010 - 2011 season. Please click here to send Cindy Wallace an email, if you need more information and/or want to participate.
Other programs for growing oysters include the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, who has been organizing oyster garden workshops for many years and this opportunity is still available. Fee for gardeners is $75.00, $25.00 of which is tax-deductible.
On January 7, 2008, the Anne Arundel County Council passed Bill 85-07, sponsored by Councilwoman Cathy Vitale. This legislation provides an opportunity for property owners to apply for a credit to their property taxes if they implement stormwater management techniques that reduce the overall runoff of stormwater on their property. This property tax credit is available to owners of residential or commercial properties in the County. The legislation as adopted provides for:
The Bay Restoration Fund (BRF) pays all or part of the cost to upgrade existing septic systems with nitrogen-reducing pretreatment units. The units reduce the amount of harmful nutrients such as nitrogen that septic systems discharge into the Chesapeake Bay.
The Well and Septic System Assistance Program helps eligible homeowners pay all or part of the cost to repair or replace a failed septic system or private well, to install a radium water treatment system, or to install other types of treatment systems that reduce contaminants to acceptable drinking water standards.
On January 7, 2008, the Anne Arundel County Council passed Bill 85-07, sponsored by Councilwoman Cathy Vitale. This legislation provides an opportunity for property owners to apply for a credit to their property taxes if they implement stormwater management techniques that reduce the overall runoff of stormwater on their property. This property tax credit is available to owners of residential or commercial properties in the County. The legislation as adopted provides for:
