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Grading the Inner Harbor's Health - 6/9/15

aqua.org/blog

An initiative of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, the Healthy Harbor Report Card tracks the progress being made toward a swimmable, fishable future for our Inner Harbor.

While Baltimore’s streams, rivers and harbor received dismal scores between 52 percent and 61 percent, some of these grades indicate improvements over the previous year.

Gwynns Falls’ overall score, for example, improved from an F to a D- since 2013.

As chief executive officer, John Racanelli leads a team of 600 full and part-time employees and 1,000 volunteers in pursuing the National Aquarium’s mission to inspire conservation of the world’s aquatic treasures. More than 1.5 million people annually visit the Aquarium’s venue in Baltimore, Maryland, while millions more are touched by the Aquarium’s education programs, outreach activities, social media campaigns and conservation initiatives.