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<title>Road salt threatens streams
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<description><![CDATA[Road salt may help melt snow and ice and keep streets and highways clear, but it also can harm fish and critters in freshwater streams.
Though the cleanup from last weekend&#39;s monster snowstorm involved less-than-usual amounts of salt, the salt that was used could end up reaching streams and incr...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Meki&#39;s Tamure heats up Polynesian rhythms
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<description><![CDATA[Meki&#39;s Tamure kicked off rehearsal in Tahiti. As two drummers played fast-paced poly-rhythms on Tahitian drums, four dancers shook their hips, moved their knees up and up and side to side and moved their arms fluidly to the beat of the drums.
The smooth dances were a sharp but welcome contrast t...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>County changing to safer fertilizer
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<description><![CDATA[The county government is promising to use low-phosphorus fertilizer to green up its parks, golf courses and ballfields - a move aimed at reducing pollution to the Chesapeake Bay.
County workers also plan to conduct more soil tests to help determine how much fertilizer to use, something that was done...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Will Magothy benefit from mussel power again?
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<description><![CDATA[They&#39;re back. Or are they?
Magothy River boosters think that dark false mussels - tiny, native bivalves - might be reappearing in the waterway.Dark false mussels (Mytilopis leucophaeata) are tiny filtering factories, clearing impurities from the water as they eat. The result the last time they s...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>More promises for a cleaner bay
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<description><![CDATA[The federal government promised on Thursday to take a more active role in cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, vowing to crack down on states in the watershed if they miss the mark on pollution reductions.
Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said she&#39;ll block p...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Drug firm wants to pour out wastewater
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<description><![CDATA[A former Brooklyn Park pharmaceuticals company forced two years ago to clean up its Robinwood Road property wants to dump its remaining waste water into the county sewer system.
Consolidated Pharmaceuticals Group has cleaned up nearly 50,000 gallons of hazardous waste stored in its warehouse and tan...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Riviera Beach erosion control project to be redone
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<description><![CDATA[Residents at a meeting of the Riviera Beach Shore Erosion Control District overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to hire a Columbia engineering firm to fix an erosion control project they say was botched.
Patrick Hudson, president of Moment Engineering, Inc., told a group of about 75 residents that the $36...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Solar panels go up on Government House
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<description><![CDATA[The official residence for Maryland governors is starting to look a little greener, as solar panels are installed to provide hot water for Government House on State Circle.
The changes to the Georgian-style country home, the official governor's residence since 1870, are part of an effort to bolster...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>9 million baby oysters get new home in the Severn
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<description><![CDATA[The giant pile of oysters on the deck of the Patricia Campbell gradually grew smaller and smaller as crew members guided the oysters onto a conveyor belt and through a spinning apparatus that sent them flying and plunking into the Severn River.
Five million oysters found their new homes at the botto...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>DNR, activists spar on method of mute swan-killing
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<description><![CDATA[Animal rights activists are laying the groundwork to sue the state over the manner in which it kills adult mute swans, using a bolt-cutter-like device to snap the birds&#39; necks.
The Humane Society of the United States, a nonprofit group, sent a warning letter to the Maryland Department of Natural...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Report: Swimming in the Chesapeake Bay is risky
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<description><![CDATA[If you hadn&#39;t thought twice about dipping your toes in the cool waters of a local creek or the Chesapeake Bay, a new report might make you think again.
The nonprofit Chesapeake Bay Foundation has released its first report looking at the bay&#39;s threats to human health.And it&#39;s not pretty:...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Patapsco reopened after sewer spill
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<description><![CDATA[County officials lifted health warnings for the Patapsco River yesterday, a week after discovering a major sewer line had broken in two places.
However, Stoney Run, the isolated creek running along the sewer main in Linthicum is still off-limits because of high bacterial pollution connected to the s...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Growing Bay-Wise
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<description><![CDATA[Judy Thompson was walking Judy Graham and Ellen Levin through her Glen Burnie garden, explaining her gardening practices and showing off her plants.
&quot;I try to plant close enough so that when they&#39;re large enough I don&#39;t have to do much mulching,&quot; Thompson said.Graham and Levin were...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Magothy River Day expands to 2 days
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<description><![CDATA[In just its second year, Magothy River Day has grown so much that it can no longer be confined to one day.
On Saturday, members of the Magothy River Association, the sponsor of the celebration, will haul away tires and other garbage from areas around the watershed. The following day, they&#39;ll ass...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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