Herring Run
Herring Run | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Maryland |
District | Baltimore City, Baltimore County |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Carney |
• coordinates | 39°23′52″N 76°32′55″W / 39.39778°N 76.54861°W |
Mouth | Back River (Maryland) |
• location | Rosedale |
• coordinates | 39°18′27″N 76°31′12″W / 39.30750°N 76.52000°W |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
Length | 11.1 mi (17.9 km) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Biddison Run |
• right | Chinquapin Run Armistead Run |
The Herring Run is an 11.1-mile-long (17.9 km)[1] tributary of the Back River located in Baltimore, Maryland.
Geography
The 31-square-mile (80 km2)
Herring Run Park
Herring Run Park is a 375 acres (152 ha) wooded parkland in northeast Baltimore through which Herring Run flows for 2.3 miles (3.7 km).[3] The politician William Smith lived on land now included in the park, which he purchased in 1770.[4]
Water pollution
The
Herring Run Watershed Association
The Herring Run Watershed Association (HRWA) was founded in 1978 (originally as the Friends of Northeast Parks and Streams) and is now a fully staffed 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to stewarding the watershed.
In 2008, HRWA completed construction on the Herring Run Watershed Center, a state-of-the-art green building that serves as the organization's headquarters and education center. Designed by Ziger/Snead Architects and built by Baltimore Green Construction, the Watershed Center was the first
It merged with four other groups to form Blue Water Baltimore in 2010.
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011
- ^ Herring Run Watershed Association (HRWA). Baltimore, MD. "Learn About the Watershed." Accessed 2010-05-03.
- ^ "Herring Run Park". Parks & Trails. Baltimore: Department of Recreation and Parks. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- Baltim. Sun.
The property was first settled in 1695, but Smith was its most famous resident.
- ^ Maryland Department of the Environment. Baltimore, MD (2007). "Total Maximum Daily Loads of Fecal Bacteria for the Herring Run Basin in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Maryland." Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine June 2007.
- ^ Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management (DEPRM), Towson, MD (2010). "Tidal Back River Small Watershed Action Plan." February 2010.
- ^ HRWA. "Mission." Accessed 2010-05-03.
- ^ HRWA. "Accomplishments." Accessed 2010-05-03.
- ^ Novotney, Amy (2008). "Space: Water, Water Everywhere. The Herring Run Watershed Association’s new headquarters is both budget- and water-conscious." Archived 2009-06-17 at the Wayback Machine UrbaniteBaltimore.com, August 2008.
- ^ Kobell, Rona (2006-09-22). "Planting the seeds for a cleaner neighborhood: Watershed group spurs grass-roots effort to tidy up community and Herring Run". Baltimore Sun.