Bush River Archives - Nottingham MD

Federal Railroad Administration awards $30 million to replace 110-year-old MARC train tracks on Gunpowder River Bridge

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Chris Montcalmo

ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Wes Moore applauded this week’s announcement of nearly $7 billion in awards from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration for Maryland projects that will make Amtrak and MARC rail service safer, faster, more reliable and more convenient for passengers. The projects, in Baltimore City and Baltimore, Harford, and Cecil counties, were selected through the Biden Administration’s […]

Gunpowder Riverkeeper reaches proposed settlement with EPA on PCBs in the Gunpowder River, Bush River

Posted on July 21, 2023 by Chris Montcalmo

NOTTINGHAM, MD—In accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator’s March 18, 2022, memorandum regarding “Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements to resolve Environmental Claims Against the Agency,” a proposed settlement has been reached that would resolve Gunpowder Riverkeeper v. Regan, et al., No. 1:20–cv–02063 (D.D.C.). On July 29, 2020, Gunpowder Riverkeeper filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the […]

Police in Harford County dive into freezing waters to rescue woman whose vehicle plunged into Bush River [VIDEO]

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Chris Montcalmo

JOPPA, MD—Friday was hardly “just another day at the office” for a few brave police officers in Harford County. On December 10, in 40-degree temperatures, deputies with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office Southern Precinct dove into the chilly waters of the Bush River to save a 25-year-old woman whose vehicle had plunged into the river. There has been no word […]

MSP helicopter crew locates stranded jet ski rider in Harford County

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Chris Montcalmo

A marshy area on the east side of the Bush River became the unintended campsite of a stranded jet ski rider beginning the afternoon of June 5, 2016 – that is, until the victim was finally located by a Maryland State Police helicopter aircrew and rescued by allied agencies on the morning of Monday, June 6th. A concerned spouse alerted […]