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arts of Farring-Baybrook Park
are overgrown and attract illegal
dumping, and a tract of land
just outside the entrance gate to Turner
Station Park also seems to attract more
than its fair share of trash.
One of these areas recently got the
GREEN
PORT
Service, Baltimore City Parks and
Recreation, Baybrook Coalition, Living
Classrooms Foundation and the National
Aquarium, Baltimore. Area residents
and students removed debris and
invasive plants and planted native trees.
Volunteer groups included employees
from Host Hotels, Inc. and students from
Benjamin Franklin High School. The
Parks and People Foundation provided
financial support.
Together, the volunteers removed
4,740 pounds of trash that included mat-
tresses, furniture and tires. The tires
were taken to the Benjamin Franklin High
School to be recycled for use in an urban
garden. Volunteers also removed three
tons of organic debris and cleared inva-
sive plant species from 2,000 overgrown
square feet, which was then mulched.
At Turner Station Park, the community
would like to see an area that contains a
nontidal tributary to Bear Creek cleaned
up. The area could also be re-landscaped
to incorporate a proposed pedestrian
cleanup it needed, while the other could
soon be receiving a similar helping hand.
Participants in a three-day cleanup
of Farring-Baybrook Park, which is
located within the Masonville Cove
watershed, included the Maryland Port
Administration, Maryland Environmental
PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF DANIEL SPACK
CLEANUP EFFORTS
in Port’s Proximity
