Prettyboy Day 2013: A Celebration of our Reservoir and Watershed Lands
BALTIMORE, MD (March 18, 2013) – Public Works Director Alfred H. Foxx today announced that the Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) will be holding the first Prettyboy Day (a Baltimore Green Week Event) on Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Prettyboy Dam, 18100 Prettyboy Dam Rd. Parkton, MD 21163. Organized by the Baltimore City Department of Public Works and the Prettyboy Watershed Alliance, the event will celebrate and educate attendees about Prettyboy Dam and Reservoir, one of Baltimore's three raw drinking-water reservoirs. Attendees of all ages can tour inside the Dam, learn about Baltimore's drinking water system, resource issues and conservation efforts and participate in a mass tree planting. DPW will be providing a shuttle to Prettyboy Dam from Baltimore Green Week’s EcoFest event at the Madison Avenue entrance of the Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory in Druid Hill Park. Pickups are at 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. and are first come, first served. Admission is free for both the shuttle and the event.
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