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elleng

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 01:37 PM Jun 2015

Fowler’s Sneaker Index measures clearest river water since 1950s.

Annual wade-in promotes continued cleanup of Patuxent.

For the 28th time, former Maryland senator and longtime Patuxent River advocate Bernie Fowler and his self-proclaimed “followers” gathered on the shores of the river to symbolically assess its health and affirm their dedication to cleaning it up Sunday at the annual Patuxent River Wade-In.

This year, using Fowler’s informal “Sneaker Index,” the water measured the clearest it’s been since the 1950s.

“We’re here because of Bernie Fowler,” Kelton Clark, director of the Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory at Morgan State University, told the audience. “We’re here because of the Patuxent River, and we’re here because of the underlying question that we have to ask ourselves every day: As we fight for this river, are we ever going to give up?”

Attendees responded with a resounding “No!” directed at Fowler.

State and local dignitaries joined area environmentalists, people who live in the Chesapeake Bay area and the 91-year-old Fowler’s extended family at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum on June 14. After a program that included a musical ode to the river and heartfelt incitements for individuals to consciously protect the river from further pollution, Fowler led the group into the river, wading in until he could no longer see his white Converse sneakers.

http://www.somdnews.com/article/20150617/news/150619413&template=southernMaryland

This is NO coincidence. Real Climate Hawk, The data-loving Maryland gov could have the greenest credentials of any '16 contender.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/martin-omalley-longshot-presidential-candidate-and-real-climate-hawk

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Fowler’s Sneaker Index measures clearest river water since 1950s. (Original Post) elleng Jun 2015 OP
Climate Hawk. I like that a lot! calimary Jun 2015 #1
K & R. n/t FSogol Jun 2015 #2
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