WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Chesapeake Bay Trust awards $25,000
for Watershed Restoration Action Strategy program
SMRWA has been awarded a $25,000 Stewardship Grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust in order to develop a comprehensive management plan for the St. Mary’s River and its surrounding drainage basin. Application has also been made to National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.
Still we will need an additional $40,000 to complete this two-year project. We have asked the county commissioners to match these grants with $30,000—and we need your support in convincing our county commissioners . . .
Please give them a call or drop them a line and tell them that saving the St. Mary’s River is important to you and that today’s investment in a management plan will greatly increase the county’s access to future restoration and preservation grant monies. "$30,000 spent today could return millions of dollars in revenue to the county over the next ten years."
You can download a sample letter in MS Word format and personalize it and mail it to our commissioners. This will have the greatest impact on their decision-making. Sample Letter
Commissioners phone: 301-475-4200 x1300
Email the Commissioners: bocc@co.saint-marys.md.us
St. Mary's County Commissioners
PO Box 653
Leonardtown, MD 20650
For more information or to become involved in the planning process, call Bob at 301-862-3517
The WRAS Program will launch a web site in April. Please look for it:
http//:www.StMarysPlanning.org
