[CPEO-BIF] Masonville Cove, Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Maryland Port Administration greening an old harbor dumping ground
Agency restoring Baltimore's Masonville Cove as urban park, bird  
preserve

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
May 28, 2011

On Baltimore's industrial southern waterfront, there's a green oasis  
of sorts, squeezed between a sand-and-gravel plant and a busy  
shipping terminal. Deer, foxes and rabbits lurk in the scrubby woods  
along the shore, songbirds flit among the trees, and ducks and geese  
ply quiet water with a distant view of the downtown skyline.

Masonville Cove, long a dumping ground for building debris and  
scrapped ships, is being reclaimed and converted into an urban nature  
park and bird sanctuary. Already, hundreds of students from nearby  
schools are learning about wetlands and wildlife at a "green"  
environmental education center there. By year's end, visitors should  
be able to stroll down to the water and fish and kayak from a new  
wooden pier.



In what many see as a promising development for Baltimore's degraded  
harbor, the Maryland Port Administration is underwriting this $22  
million makeover of one of its most contaminated spots. Part of the  
environmental restoration work in the cove is being done as legally  
required mitigation for the 130-acre impoundment created nearby to  
hold muck dredged from the harbor bottom. But the education center  
and much of the construction under way now are part of a deal the  
state struck with neighborhood leaders.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bs-gr-masonville- 
cove-20110529,0,557711.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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