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Harmony Hall Restoration
Request: $150,000
National Park Service, National Capital Parks - East
1900 Anacostia Drive, SE, Washington, DC 20020 Funding would be made available under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) Account for rehabilitation of Harmony Hall, a National Park Service site located in Prince George's County. The house, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built about 1760 and is situated on 65 acres adjacent to Broad Creek. Specifically, funding would be utilized for interior repairs and stabilization of the second floor and attic of the manor house. This is a good use of taxpayer funding because it will stabilize and preserve a significant historic site and further enable efforts to make this public resource available to the local community and visitors to the area. Chesapeake Beach WWTP Enhanced Nutrient Removal Upgrade and Expansion
Request: $700,000
Town of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland
8200 Bayside Road, Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732 Federal funding would be utilized for upgrades to the town's wastewater treatment plant which will enable it to expand the plant from its current capacity of 1.18 to 1.5 million gallons per day to address population growth within the town and county's Priority Funding Areas while concurrently installing state-funded, Enhanced Nutrient Removal (ENR) technology. This is a good use of taxpayer funds because it will improve service to the local community while moving forward with efforts to reduce nitrogen discharge into the Chesapeake Bay by approximately 18,000 pounds per year and phosphorus discharge by 7,700 pounds per year. Town of Indian Head New Public Drinking Water Well
Request: $474,375
Town of Indian Head, Maryland
4195 Indian Head Highway, Indian Head, MD 20640 Funding will be made available to the Town of Indian Head (population 3,500) for the construction of a new 250,000 gallons-per-day public drinking water well, treatment system, storage tank, emergency generator and other associated equipment. The project will reduce the Town's dependence on water from the Patapsco aquifer, which is stressed from over-pumping by the town and other communities using the aquifer. This is a good use of taxpayer dollars because it will improve service for local residents, while preventing aquifer over-pumping, which can result in reduced wells yield and potentially infiltrate the water supply with contaminants from nearby bodies of salt water, nitrates and fertilizers from adjacent farm land. Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Request: $3,000,000
National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Program
410 Severn Avenue, Suite 109, Annapolis, MD 21403 The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network is a partnership of public and private parks, refuges, museums, historic sites, and water trails throughout the Bay watershed. Funding for the Network supports matching grants to participating Gateway sites (currently over 150) for development of high-quality interpretation, access, or conservation and restoration projects and a series of initiatives to support the entire Network. This is a good use of taxpayer funds because it improves accessibility, conservation, and interpretation of critical natural and historic resources while raising awareness of the public's abilities to individually contribute to the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
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