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The AAWRA is an alliance of communities, dredging officials, Chesapeake
Bay associations and trusts, and boaters on navigable waters in
Anne Arundel County supporting deeper tidal water channels, sediment
reclamation, tidal habitats, and natural fisheries.
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Statement of Purpose |
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The purpose of the AAWRA shall be to promote the restoration of
Anne Arundel County waterways by dredging and related actions
as needed to:
- maintain historic and adequate channel access,
- reduce and/or eliminate the amount of sediments,
- protect and enable natural shoreline habitats.
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Organization Bylaws |
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See AAWRA Bylaws
(Word Doc) for the Bylaws used to govern the
organization.
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Contact |
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Electronic Mailing List |
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The AAWRA maintains an electronic mailing list
to keep everyone informed about the activities and
discussions conducted by the members of the Alliance.
In order to keep the volume of messages manageable, only the
mailing list moderators can post messages to the list. Furthermore,
all mailing list addresses will be kept confidential and will only
be used for the purpose of providing information directly to our
members.
To add your email address to the mailing list, simply send
an email message to:
listserver@aawra.org
and include the word SUBSCRIBE on the Subject line.
To remove your email address from the mailing list at any time,
send an email message to the address listed above and include
the word UNSUBSCRIBE on the Subject line.
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Next Meeting |
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The next meetings of the AAWRA will be held:
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TBD, 2010 |
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7:00 PM |
Place:
Directions
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Anne Arundel County Police
Southern District Headquarters
35 Stepney Lane
Edgewater, MD
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Becoming A Member |
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If you'd like to become a member of the AAWRA, simply
fill out the AAWRA Membership Form
(PDF) electronically and submit it via email or print it out and
send it to the given address.
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Recent Meeting Notes |
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| September 29, 2009 |
Bob Whitcomb presented and discussed the letter sent to
Delegate Robert Costa referencing the conflict between state
and county on responsibility for waterway markers and buoys,
a letter from House of Delegates Michael Busch correspondence
regarding the reduced funding of the Waterway Improvement Fund
and a copy of the dredging list of county submitted Waterway
Improvement Program Grant Funding Project Priority List for
FY11. Special guests presenting included Chris Phipps, County
Chief Engineer, and Masoud Ghatineh, Chief of Environmental
Engineering for all County Dredging of Anne Arundel County
Department of Public Works Bureau of Engineering and Keith
Tate, and Kendra Scheminant, a Dredging Program Manager from
Bayland, from Bayland Consultants & Designers the county's
consultant contractor.
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| April 28, 2009 |
President, Bob Whitcomb of AAWRA started the meeting by sharing a less enthusiastic
letter from House Speaker Michael Busch in response to an attempt by AAWRA to
preserve the use of the DNR Waterway Improvement Fund (WIF) due to the economic
down turn. Also reported were presentations by AAWRA officers made to both House of
Delegates and the Senate during the recent Legislative Session.
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| January 27, 2009 |
Annual Meeting was held to summarize efforts in 2008, elect new Board members
and discuss plans for 2009. In attendance was special guest Jennifer Mook
of Bayland Consultants.
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