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How's The Water?

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Fewer cars on the road, less electricity generated, many factories on hiatus: the coronavirus lockdown’s side effect of cleaner air-- at least temporarily--has been something to celebrate amid the 50th anniversary commemoration of Earth Day this week. We ask Adam Lindquist, director of the Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor initiative: what’s the connection to the quality of the water in Baltimore’s harbor? To join the secret society The Order of the Wheel, visit this link.

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'