{"id":21370,"date":"2018-04-25T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=21370"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:14:17","slug":"public-invited-to-fourth-annual-potomac-river-cleanup-at-mallows-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/04\/25\/public-invited-to-fourth-annual-potomac-river-cleanup-at-mallows-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Invited to Fourth Annual Potomac River Cleanup at Mallows Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Activities Start at 10 a.m. on April 28<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4447\/23786700518_7315958aa4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of family at Mallows Bay cleanup day\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, April 28, the public is invited to help clean up areas among the World War I-era shipwrecks moored in Mallows Bay and adjacent shorelines at Mallows Bay Park in Charles County. Local archaeologists, historians and naturalists will share information and interpret the history of Mallows Bay as part of the activities.<\/p>\n<p>The cleanup begins at 10 a.m., with a rain date of Sunday, April 29, at 10:30 a.m. Volunteers can meet at <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/Fu87V5AMfpK2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mallows Bay Park<\/a>\u00a0in Nanjemoy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mallows Bay is renowned for its \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/12\/21\/ghost-fleet-of-mallows-bay\/\">Ghost Fleet<\/a>,\u201d the remains of more than 100 World War I-era vessels built as part of America\u2019s involvement in \u2018The Great War,&#8221; which ended 100 years ago this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> Secretary Mark Belton, along with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Timothy Gallaudet, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation\u00a0President and CEO Kris Sarri, and Charles County Commissioners Peter Murphy and Ken Robinson will attend the day&#8217;s activities in a show of support for proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/01\/06\/mallows-bay-national-marine-sanctuary-designation-moves-forward\/\">Mallows Bay\u2013Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also as part of Saturday\u2019s events, the\u00a0department and foundation will highlight their plans for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/03\/13\/new-partnership-to-monitor-mallows-bay-water-quality\/\">long-term, continuous water quality monitoring<\/a>\u00a0in Mallows Bay, which will provide real-time data\u00a0to the public, resource managers and scientists via the department\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eyesonthebay.dnr.maryland.gov\/eyesonthebay\/index.cfm\">Eyes on the Bay<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/p>\n<p>Other partners in the cleanup include the Alice Ferguson Foundation, Atlantic Kayak, Charles County Government, Friends of Mallows-Potomac and Maryland Historical Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activities Start at 10 a.m. on April 28 On Saturday, April 28, the public is invited to help clean up areas among the World War I-era shipwrecks moored in Mallows Bay and adjacent shorelines at Mallows Bay Park in Charles County. Local archaeologists, historians and naturalists will share information and interpret the history of Mallows<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/04\/25\/public-invited-to-fourth-annual-potomac-river-cleanup-at-mallows-bay\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3171,33],"tags":[2924,3520,2925,2929,2928,2926],"class_list":["post-21370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-the-bay","tag-charles-county","tag-eyes-on-the-bay","tag-mallows-bay-potomac-river-national-marine-sanctuary","tag-maryland-historical-trust","tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration","tag-potomac-river"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21370"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21382,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21370\/revisions\/21382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}