{"id":8953,"date":"2015-08-07T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2017-04-14T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T20:10:57","slug":"ground-healing-held-at-hyattsville-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/08\/07\/ground-healing-held-at-hyattsville-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Project to Treat Two Million Gallons of Stormwater a Year, Prevent Run-off to the Anacostia River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xft1\/v\/t1.0-9\/11811536_980553395330068_8535513818496264952_n.jpg?oh=0323a462f5e22b28cbd35de59eb8da38&amp;oe=564A1A46\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"365\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DNR Secretary Mark Belton (standing third from left) joins representatives from the Anacostia Watershed Society, Prince George&#8217;s County and the First United Methodist Church<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Elected officials, citizens and supporters today joined\u00a0together at the First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville to dedicate a new\u00a0stormwater retrofit project that will filter runoff from more than 3 acres of pavement, the\u00a0first of more than 4,000 acres across Prince George\u2019s County that the state and county\u00a0will address in an effort to help clean and restore the Anacostia River and the\u00a0Chesapeake Bay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Mark Belton, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources; Adam Ortiz, Director for the Department of the Environment for Prince George\u2019s County; Rev. Dr. Yvonne Wallace-Penn, Pastor, First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville; and Jim Foster, President of the Anacostia Watershed Society were on hand to celebrate the project\u2019s completion and participate in a ground healing ceremony that involved planting native trees, shrubs and plants. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anacostiaws.org\/userfiles\/file\/AWS%20FUMC%20Press%20Release%20August%207%20Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials, citizens and supporters today joined\u00a0together at the First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville to dedicate a new\u00a0stormwater retrofit project that will filter runoff from more than 3 acres of pavement, the\u00a0first of more than 4,000 acres across Prince George\u2019s County that the state and county\u00a0will address in an effort to help clean and<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2015\/08\/07\/ground-healing-held-at-hyattsville-church\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8958,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions\/8958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}