{"id":1395,"date":"2015-03-10T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2015-03-10T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:30:22","slug":"media-advisory-hickory-elementary-school-hosts-mde-for-groundwater-awareness-week-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2015\/03\/10\/media-advisory-hickory-elementary-school-hosts-mde-for-groundwater-awareness-week-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"**Media Advisory** Hickory Elementary School hosts MDE for Groundwater Awareness Week celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEDIA CONTACTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maryland Department of the Environment: <\/strong><br \/>\nAdrienne Diaczok<br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:(410)%20537-3003\">(410) 537-3003<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:adrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov\">adrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harford County Public Schools:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Jillian Lader<br \/>\n410-588-5203<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harford County Health Department:<br \/>\n<\/strong>William Wiseman<br \/>\n410-612-1771<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>**Media Advisory** Hickory Elementary School hosts MDE for Groundwater Awareness Week celebration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Baltimore, MD)\u00a0March 10, 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In celebration of Maryland Groundwater Awareness Week (March 8-14), Maryland Department of the Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles will meet with fifth-graders at Hickory Elementary School in Harford County for a demonstration and discussion on the importance of groundwater in Maryland.\u00a0 Secretary Grumbles\u2019 lesson will focus on how students actions affect their community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Grumbles, Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment<br \/>\nDr. Russell Moy, Deputy Health Officer, Harford County Health Department<br \/>\nBrad Stinar, Principal, Hickory Elementary School<br \/>\nFifth-graders at Hickory Elementary School<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, March 11, 2015, from\u00a02 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE: <\/strong>Hickory Elementary School, 2100 Conowingo Road, Bel Air, MD 21014<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Every day, Americans use 79.6 billion gallons of fresh groundwater for public and private use, including for irrigation, livestock, manufacturing, mining and more. Groundwater is vulnerable to pollution by anything we spill or dispose of on or under the ground. Groundwater contaminated with bacteria, chemicals, pesticides, gasoline or oil can result in serious human health problems. Keeping our groundwater clean helps to protect and restore our waterways, including the Chesapeake Bay.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA CONTACTS: Maryland Department of the Environment: Adrienne Diaczok (410) 537-3003 adrienne.diaczok@maryland.gov Harford County Public Schools: Jillian Lader 410-588-5203 Harford County Health Department: William Wiseman 410-612-1771 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: **Media Advisory** Hickory Elementary School hosts MDE for Groundwater Awareness Week celebration (Baltimore, MD)\u00a0March 10, 2015\u00a0\u2013 In celebration of Maryland Groundwater Awareness Week (March 8-14), Maryland<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2015\/03\/10\/media-advisory-hickory-elementary-school-hosts-mde-for-groundwater-awareness-week-celebration\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clean-water-2","category-secretary-grumbles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}