{"id":28818,"date":"2019-10-01T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=28818"},"modified":"2019-10-01T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:01:09","slug":"input-sought-for-second-year-of-state-lakes-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/10\/01\/input-sought-for-second-year-of-state-lakes-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Input Sought for Second Year of State Lakes Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Meetings Held in October<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5607\/15547691291_70241efe39.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of lake at New Germany State Park\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/>The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will host four open house events to solicit public input regarding the development of a work plan for the second phase of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/state-lakes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The fund is providing $1 million annually for three years to protect and restore state-owned lakes.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the open house events in October, the department will report on projects underway in year one and accept input toward developing a budget for best use of funds in coordination with local governments, organizations, and citizens. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The funds can be used for removing sediment, treating contaminated sediment, preventing the spread of invasive species, improving the ecological and recreational value, and any other action the department deems necessary at any or all of 16 lakes throughout Maryland. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The public is invited to join staff to provide direct input<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the following<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> meeting locations, between 2 and 6 p.m.:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eastern Shore &#8212; Wednesday, Oct. 9 at Adkins Arboretum, Tuckahoe State Park, 12610 Eveland Road, Ridgely, MD 21660<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Central Maryland &#8212; Tuesday, Oct. 15 at Coblentz Hall, Dreiling &#8217;69 Seminar Room, Hood College, 650 Blazer Trail, Frederick, MD 21701<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Western Maryland&#8211; Wednesday, Oct.16 at Garrett Information Enterprise Center, Room 111, Garrett College, 685 Mosser Road, McHenry, MD 21541<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Southern Maryland &#8212; Thursday, Oct. 17 at Center for Business and Industry Room 113E, College of Southern Maryland, 8730 Mitchell Road, La Plata, MD 20646<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Updates and additional information will be posted on the department\u2019s<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/state-lakes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anyone who cannot attend an open house, but wishes to provide feedback should contact Yishen Li at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:yishen.li@maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">yishen.li@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Meetings Held in October The Maryland Department of Natural Resources will host four open house events to solicit public input regarding the development of a work plan for the second phase of the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund. The fund is providing $1 million annually for three years to protect and restore state-owned<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/10\/01\/input-sought-for-second-year-of-state-lakes-fund\/\">&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":[957,33],"tags":[4851],"class_list":["post-28818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-state-lakes-protection-and-restoration-fund"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28818","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=28818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28819,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28818\/revisions\/28819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}