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SUMMARY:Water Quality Monitoring Training (Colonial Beach)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this in-person training to become a certified Community Science Water Quality Monitoring Program Volunteer! \n\n\n\nLocation:US Potomac River Fisheries222 Taylor Street Colonial Beach\, VA 22443 \n\n\n\nDuring this training\, you will learn about Potomac Riverkeeper Networks role in preventing pollution in our watershed & the role of Community Science in our Swimmable Potomac Campaign\, learn the field and lab methods for collecting and reading water quality samples\, get hands-on experience practicing water sample collection and take our Community Science Water Quality Monitor Volunteer test to become certified within our program! \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about our Water Quality Monitoring Program
URL:https://potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/event/water-quality-monitoring-training-colonial-beach/
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SUMMARY:Virginia Osprey Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Virginia Osprey Festival is one of the largest festivals of its kind celebrating the return of the osprey to Colonial Beach\, birdwatching and the area’s abundant natural resources. \n\n\n\nLearn about the resurgence of the osprey along the Potomac. And last year\, Potomac Riverkeeper Network and Potomac River Fisheries Commission launched Colonial Beach’s first ever Community Science Water Quality Monitoring Program — learn more about last year’s results. Come learn more about volunteer opportunities to engage in the science of clean water\, help collect water samples and learn lab techniques to make sure the river is safe for fishing\, swimming\, and Ospreys! \n\n\n\nJoin Emily Franc\, VP of Development and Philanthropy\, other PRKN staff\, and the Sea Dog for a great day celebrating oysters and water quality monitoring. \n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS
URL:https://potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/event/virginia-osprey-festival/
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SUMMARY:Public Hearing on AES Warrior Run Permit
DESCRIPTION:Maryland’s Department of the Environment will hold a public information hearing on the renewal of a discharge permit for AES Warrior Run coal-fired electricity generating plant on April 8 at 5 PM. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meeting Room at the Allegany County LibrarySouth Cumberland Branch\, 100 Seymour Street\,Cumberland\, MD 21502 \n\n\n\nThe application seeks renewal of a permit to discharge an average of 146\,000 gallons per day of cooling tower blowdown\, boiler blowdown\, demineralizer regeneration wastewater\, and carbon dioxide scrubber wastes and variable volumes of stormwater\, including coal pile runoff\, from a steam electric cogeneration and carbon dioxide production facility. The discharges would flow into the North Branch Potomac River. \n\n\n\nA copy of the application may be downloaded from the Department’s website at https://mdewwp.page.link/wwpportal. At that webpage\, search for State Number 24DP2937\, click “More Info\,” and then select the desired document(s) to download.
URL:https://potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/event/public-hearing-on-aes-warrior-run-permit/
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SUMMARY:International Water Tasting
DESCRIPTION:The Country Inn110 S Washington StBerkeley Springs\, WV 25411 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 34th Annual International Water Tasting event will be held at the historic Country Inn in Berkeley Springs\, WV. This is a free event\, so come\, show your support\,  \n\n\n\nHear Brent’s remarks about the latest news on PFAS (toxic “forever chemicals”) in our soil and water at the “Beneath the Surface and Around the Globe” seminar on Friday at 1:00pm. Stick around for the water tasting on Saturday beginning at 2:30pm. \n\n\n\n\nClick here for more information
URL:https://potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/event/international-water-tasting/
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SUMMARY:Swimmable Potomac Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Join DC water quality experts Jonathan Champion and Alicia Ritzenthaler from DC’s Department of Energy and the Environment (DOEE)\, and Potomac Riverkeeper\, Dean Naujoks\, for a town hall discussion of swimming opportunities in the Potomac River in DC. We will discuss why swimming was banned in DC rivers in 1971 and why it is now high time to lift that ban.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library1630 7th Street NW\, Washington\, DC 20001 \n\n\n\nREGISTER FOR FREE TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome to the town hall meeting to learn about what the science is telling us on DC water quality.  PRKN’s community science  water quality monitoring program’s trained volunteers collect and analyze water quality samples for E.coli bacteria every summer. The data we have collected shows that the Potomac is indeed swimmable most of the time! Let’s make the Potomac clean and safe and accessible to everyone for swimming\, paddling\, and other water-based fun.  It is our river – let’s enjoy it! 
URL:https://potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/event/swimmable-potomac-town-hall/
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SUMMARY:Water Wednesday: PFAS – what can we do to get rid of it?
DESCRIPTION:Phil Farina from Clear Creek Systems\, a firm specializing in water treatment\, will join Brent Walls\, Upper Potomac Riverkeeper\, in speaking about treatment and destruction technologies for PFAS\, a group of toxic “forever chemicals” that are found throughout our homes and environment. PRKN has been advocating for more public information about PFAS risks and what we can do and state agencies can do to reduce public health risks; an untapped resource could be technologies to remove and most importantly to destroy PFAS. Learn more about these possibilities. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/event/water-wednesday-pfas-what-can-we-do-to-get-rid-of-it/
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SUMMARY:JOIN US FOR THE Polar Bear Plunge to "keep Winter Cold"
DESCRIPTION:Plunge for Clean Water and to Stop Climate Change at National Harbor\n\n\n\nHave you signed up yet? If you have never participated before\, this can be the year you do! It’s wild and it’s mad fun!  \n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about this year’s Polar Bear Plunge! And even if you don’t want to get in the water\, you can still get in on the action. \n\n\n\n\nTAKE THE PLUNGE – jOIN OUR TEAM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are plenty of ways to participate: if you join us and jump in\, you will be instantly and forever identified as a true water lover! But you can also sponsor a swimmer – the funds we raise are shared with our friends at Chesapeake Climate Action Network\, who work to address one of the biggest threats to our rivers – climate change. \n\n\n\n\nSPONSOR SOMEONE ON THE pRKN tEAM\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDean Naujoks takes the Plunge\n\n\n\nEnticement needed? If you attend\, you will join lots of Board Members\, Staff\, and PRKN alumni\, doing their part for the river! We have more team members joining every day.
URL:https://potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/event/2024-polar-bear-plunge/
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SUMMARY:Water Wednesday: Maryland and Virginia Legislative Preview
DESCRIPTION:Please join our three Riverkeepers to discuss the legislation that we will be advancing during the Maryland and Virginia legislative sessions that will run from January through March. \n\n\n\nWe will be working on clean water enforcement\, reducing PFAS or “forever chemicals”\,  implementation of best management practices to protect the rivers\, minimizing coal ash contamination in our waterways\, and expanding funding for water quality monitoring. \n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/event/water-wednesday-maryland-and-virginia-legislative-preview/
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