WALKERSVILLE, Md. If
you are interested in the Chesa
peake Bay and want to understand
what you can do to belter protect
your water supply, then come to
the “We’re All In The Watershed”
Tour on Saturday. July 23.
The tour will be from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. and will depart from The
Frederic USDA office complex at
92 Thomas Johnson Drive in
Frederick, Md.
The USDA field offices are lo
cated in the North Amber (GTE)
office complex. The building is a
large red brick office building
with black letters on the side that
says “92 USDA.” The buses will
leave from the parking lot at 9
a.m.
The tour will give urban and
suburban residents an opportunity
to see what other landowners are
doing to protect water resources.
Participants will also leant what
they can do as homeowners to pro
tect local water sheds, which in
turn support the vitality of the
Chesapeake Bay.
It is the theme of this public
tour that recognizes how little
things we do can make a differ
ence regardless of whether we arc
farmers or suburban homeowners.
We also will recognize the posi
tive actions many farmers, home
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ready doing in the watershed.
Collective impacts of indivi
duals can be very great In Mary
land. there are more acres in lawns
than in com. Management on lawn
acres can have just as big an im
pact as what happens in com
fields. Since it is estimated that
many homeowners over-supply
fertilizers and pesticides, these ef
fects can be significant.
Soil erosion is another issue
that knows no problem-free inter
est group. Developments without
erosion control practices on aver
age can have soil erosion rates 16
times the rates on agricultural land
in row crops with best manage
ment practices.
Individual responsibility is the
key to managing environmental
conditions. Each landmanager
needs to become aware of how
their day-to-day actions combined
with similar actions by others can
have big impacts on water quality.
An example of this was the use
of fertilizer to melt ice during last
winter. Many experts believe that
most of the fertilizer used in this
way very quickly found its way
directly into streams by going
down storm drains. It was quite
normal for people at the time
when this fertilizer was used not to
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think about the health of the
Chesapeake Bay. Greater indivi
dual aware ness of our effects on
water quality will decrease the oc
currence of similar actions in the
future.
The tour includes a visit to a
farm to see best management
practices dairy farmers use to pro
tect water quality. Practices such
as nutrient management, conser
vation tillage, cover crops and in
tegrated pest management will be
discussed. We also will visit a de-
Garrity Joins Northeast
ITHACA, N.Y. The North
east Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociation recently hired Jim Cani
ty as the new director of Finance
and Personnel for the 4,800-mem
ber DHIA cooperatives.
Garrity has 6V4 years of experi
ence serving in a similar position
for Pennsylvania DHIA, as well as
20 years of experience within the
manufacturing and business in
dustries.
Garrity’s experience includes
cost accounting and containment,
financial controls, systems and
personnel administration, and
velopment to observe how devel
opers, county governments, and
conservation districts protect wa
ter quality when a housing or in
dustrial development cranes into a
community.
A talk will also be given on the
importance of lawn management
and home environmental steward
ship.
The final part of the tour will be
a program on home welt and sep
tic system management for the
communication of business fi
nances.
While with Pennsylvania
DHIA, he shared responsibility
for the state-wide re-organization
plan, and temporarily served as in
terim general manager.
“We are very pleased to have
Jim as part of our Northeast team,
and look forward to drawing on
his experience as we move toward
meeting our future goals,” said
General Manager Nelvin Empet
Garrity and his wife are to be
relocating to the Ithaca, New York
protection of groundwater re
sources. Each participant will be
given an informational packet of
ideas they can use on their own
property and in their own homes.
All are welcome on this tour,
including families, scout, or other
youth groups, and children ac
companied by an audit. If you are
interested in attending this tour,
contact the Monocacy Project of
fice at (301) 898-0133 by July 15.
The tour is free and lunch is on
your own after the tour.
area. They have two growri daugh
ters.
Northeast DHIA currently pro
vides services to members and
Agriservice clients in the nine
state area of New York, Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey,.Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Vermont and
Maine. Among those services are
traditional DHIA records, forage
analysis, milk testing. Dairy
Comp 305 herd management soft
ware, and Afikim electronic meter
and cow management systems.