UME’s Watershed Protection and Restoration Program (WPRP) team was approached by the Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council approximately six years ago proposing a certification program now known as the Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals (CBLP) Certification Program. The program has since received a $200,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation as well was $30,000 from the Prince Charitable Trust, Keith Campbell Foundation, and UMD Extension.
“The goal of CBLP is to create a trained workforce that designs, builds, and installs sustainable small-scale landscape practices that measurably decrease the amount of nutrient and sediment pollution going to local rivers and streams,” said Jennifer Dindinger, Watershed Restoration Specialist for MarylandSea Grant Extension.
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All this is hogwash. Simple solution, just plant 20 feet of mushrooms on the river banks and they will clean it up naturally. Do the research folks. There are actually mushrooms that will eat oil, acids, nitrates,etc. They will survive and reproduce and the price of pizza will come down. It's a win-win situation.
ReplyDeleteEvery dollar of that grant money should have been put into dredging the toxic sediment at the coniwingo dam. Every time it rains just north it spills toxic sediment on the Bay floor covering and killing grasses and oysters. Instead they give grants...to sell certifications....
ReplyDeleteBAN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY...
ReplyDeleteBeating a dead horse , people are sick of this BS waste of money.
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