The Maryland Recycling Network, based in Columbia, Maryland, will host a free, one-hour webinar, Thursday, July 16, 2015, beginning at 11:30 a.m. EDT about Baltimore’s Inner Harbor Water Wheel. The webinar will look at how the debris collection mechanism works and whether a similar system might be applicable to watershed cleanup programs elsewhere.
John Kellett, president of Baltimore-based Clearwater Mills, the inventor and builder of Baltimore’s water wheel, will discuss the engineering behind the water wheel and the challenges that are involved in intercepting floating debris at the mouths of rivers.
Adam Lindquist, project manager for the Healthy Harbor Initiative of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, which owns and maintains the water wheel, will discuss how it fits into Baltimore’s larger picture of watershed planning and water quality management.
The importance of capturing floating plastic at river mouths has emerged as a point of general agreement in the marine litter management community. The Baltimore water wheel, with its ability to capture 50,000 pounds of trash every day, is perhaps the best known example of such a capture system in action, according to the Maryland Recycling Network.
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