{"id":41112,"date":"2024-03-19T15:15:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=41112"},"modified":"2024-03-19T15:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:15:45","slug":"port-of-chestertown-earns-maryland-clean-marina-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2024\/03\/19\/port-of-chestertown-earns-maryland-clean-marina-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Chestertown Earns Maryland Clean Marina Status"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Port of Chestertown Marina, photo courtesy of Town of Chestertown.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The Port of Chestertown Marina recently passed inspection by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and will earn the Maryland Clean Marina Award. This award brings Maryland\u2019s total number of <\/span>Clean Marinas and Clean Marina Partners<\/span><\/a> to 147 \u2013 about 30 percent of the marinas in Maryland. In Kent County, 22 percent of the estimated 31 marinas are certified as Clean Marinas.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of their environmental initiatives, Port of Chestertown staff developed spill response plans and installed a response kit, designed their building to capture stormwater and direct it to \u2018rain gardens\u2019 for treatment, and the Port provides trash bags at their boat launch to encourage boaters to retrieve debris while on the water. The rain gardens were designed and are maintained by the nonprofit ShoreRivers, which has an office at the marina.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very proud of the new marina that is a product of a lot of local and state support,\u201d marina manager Paul Coleman said. \u201cWe want to operate and maintain it at the highest standards and that means earning the Clean Marina certification.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For a boating facility to earn certification as a Clean Marina, program staff evaluate participating marinas, boatyards, or yacht clubs on areas such emergency preparedness, waste containment\/disposal, and stormwater management. To pass, the marina must score from 75% to 85% in each area of the <\/span>Award Checklist<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by implementing practices from the <\/span>Maryland Clean Marina Guidebook<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clean Marinas are re-inspected every three years to ensure they continue to meet the award\u2019s criteria. The program was developed in 1998 by a committee of marina and boatyard operators, state and local government, academics, and boating groups with the goal of reducing nonpoint source pollution from marine facilities and recreational boats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Boaters are encouraged to participate by signing the<\/span> Maryland Clean Boater Pledge<\/span><\/a> and patronizing certified Clean Marinas. To learn more about the program or to seek certification, contact <\/span>donna.morrow@maryland.gov<\/span><\/a> or visit the <\/span>Clean Marina website<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Port of Chestertown Marina recently passed inspection by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and will earn the Maryland Clean Marina Award. This award brings Maryland\u2019s total number of Clean Marinas and Clean Marina Partners to 147 \u2013 about 30 percent of the marinas in Maryland. In Kent County, 22 percent of the estimated  Read the Rest…<\/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":[957,3171,33],"tags":[2982,3238,3423,5160,4032],"class_list":["post-41112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-boating","category-the-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-chester-river","tag-chestertown","tag-clean-marinas","tag-shorerivers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112","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=41112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41115,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112\/revisions\/41115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}