Clean Water From a Parking Lot: Microbioretention Practices at Our Lady of Mount Carmel

In 2020, Gunpowder Valley Conservancy installed two microbioretention practices in Our Lady of Mount Carmel's parking lot to filter 17,000 sq. feet of stormwater runoff. This is just one of many Bay-Wise actions the Essex, MD based parish has taken in partnership with the GVC. Visit gunpowdervalleyconservancy.org/clearcreeks/OMLC to learn more

That time we removed four parking spaces to improve water quality to Hopkins Creek and the Chesapeake Bay! In 2020, GVC installed two microbioretention pract...