Member Support

Member support at Waterkeepers Chesapeake means expanding the impact of each member organization to reduce pollution by promoting peer learning, communications and collaborations, sharing successful strategies, and providing technical and legal expertise and training. We support our members by organizing collective legal and advocacy campaigns around clean water in the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays region, coordinating information and resources, and amplifying the voices of individual organizations as well as telling the story of their collective impact on improving water quality for all of our communities. We also track and connect our members with regional and national clean water efforts. When a disaster strikes such as an oil spill or a hurricane, Waterkeepers Chesapeake provides rapid response support to the impacted Waterkeeper by helping to coordinate a response and providing communications and technical support.

“Thank you to the Waterkeepers Chesapeake team for the services and support you’ve given us over the last year and beyond. I’m feeling really good about how WKC has grown to be a resource for individual Waterkeeper groups.”

Choptank Riverkeeper Matt Pluta

Waterkeeper Water Quality Monitoring Shows Increases in Pollution Due to Climate Change

Waterkeeper Water Quality Monitoring Shows Increases in Pollution Due to Climate Change

Every year our Waterkeepers work hard to gather information about the conditions of our local rivers, streams, and coastal waters ...
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Vote for Clean Water

Vote for Clean Water

Civic Engagement Toolkit! It’s challenging to know where to start to get your organization involved in critical civic engagement efforts ...
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ShoreRivers Lawsuit Leads to Settlement with Failing Chicken Rendering Plant

ShoreRivers Lawsuit Leads to Settlement with Failing Chicken Rendering Plant

By Matt Pluta, Choptank Riverkeeper and Director of Riverkeeper Programs at ShoreRivers After more than a year of litigation, ShoreRivers has reached ...
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Our Land – Video on Eagle Harbor, MD by REI

Our Land – Video on Eagle Harbor, MD by REI

REI’s “Our Land” is a short documentary film that introduces the Black environmentalists and residents who are fighting to protect Eagle ...
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