2005 Reporter

Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin

January/February

  • Cleanup Plans a Focus for ICPRB in 2005
  • Chairman’s Message: Looking Out the Window Into the Future
  • Potomac Basin Partners Launch Events Website
  • Watching the River Flow
  • Volunteers Needed for 17th Annual Potomac Watershed Cleanup April 2

March/April

  • Wet Spring Cleanup Sets Records
  • Volunteers Plant Stream Buffer
  • Citizens Group’s Hopes Uprooted
  • Menhaden Populations, Regulations Spawn Controversy
  • Watching the River Flow
  • Be a Part of the Potomac Sojourn, July 8-16
  • Volunteers Carry the Day for Rock Creek River Herring
  • Potomac Calendar: Help Shape Pa.’s Water Future, May 19; 12th Annual Potomac River Swim for the Environment, June 4; 7th Annual Lower Potomac Wade-In, June 11

May/June

  • Upper Potomac River Fisheries Healthy, But Threats Persist
  • ICPRB Assists Pennsylvania with Water Resources Planning Effort
  • New Seedlings for Kindergartners
  • Swimmers Race for the River
  • Watching the River Flow
  • Let the River Run Silver Again
  • ICPRB Seeks Pa., W.Va., Water Quality Data

July/August

  • At Least They’re Delicious: Snakeheads Are Here to Stay
  • From the Executive Director’s Desk: Commitment
  • Potomac Dissolved Oxygen Levels Improve Somewhat; Better Monitoring Proposed
  • Drinking Water Group Exploring Concerns
  • The Greening of Williamsport
  • Watching the River Flow
  • Give the Gift of Trees
  • Despite Dry Summer Weather, Taps Still Flow
  • World Water Monitoring Day on the Anacostia

September/October

  • Waiting to Exhale: Weather Intensifies Pollution Problem
  • Potomac Blue-Green Algal Levels Less than 2004
  • 2005 Potomac River Sojourn: Learning the River Through Rain and Rapids
  • Watching the River Flow
  • A Trash-Free Potomac: Coalition Undertakes Daunting Task
  • Be a World Water Monitor

November/December

  • Leading Academia Gives Potomac a Passing Grade-With Some Reservations
  • “C+” Grade for the Potomac the Result of Many Expert Opinions
  • Watching the River Flow
  • George’s Creek: a Bump in the Long Road to Recovery
  • Virginia Appoints New Slate of Commissioners