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Patapsco Valley TU continues work in Morgan Run NEA with special projects and trout stocking. The trout stocking lead by Keith Albright is a well coordinated operation run twice a year and occasionally in the Fall if water levels are high enough. Please contact Keith to get on his list of helpers. Without enough hands on the stocking boxes, we cannot successfully float stock the stream.   Contact >>

In May of this year we began much needed maintenance of the fishermen's paths with brush cutting over a half mile stretch of stream starting at Klee Mill and going down stream. Don Sparr, Keith Albright, Jim Kennedy, and Ted Godfrey worked with chain saw and various trimmers to open up this path. We now have much better access to a number of good, but widely spread out pools where fish congregate if they drift down stream from the principal stocking area around Klee Mill.

This Spring Keith Albright contacted DNR Patapsco State Park office and instigated work to resurface the old roadway extension of Jim Bowers Road down to the stream. Our chapter has donated partial payment for gravel and transport. Pictures below show the operation and finished work. This is a lowland area subject to washout and mud deposition and will need periodic resurfacing. It is important to maintain this roadway because it is access for the DNR stocking truck for much faster and safer float stocking of the upper catch and release area of Morgan Run.


   Resurfacing Jim Bowers Extension Roadway

  tu The piles of two inch gravel - Approximately 80 tons of gravel were delivered in four truck loads to the foot of Jim Bowers Road. The extension to be resurfaced begins behind the gate in the background.

  tu Dave Fishbach, DNR with front loader at the gravel piles - First, the mud had to be removed to expose the stone base; then a heavy layer of two inch gravel was put down.



  tu Stalwart PVTU member Ed Bimiller with float boxes - Ed has been stocking Morgan for at least 15 years now and here he is again getting everything ready for arrival of the stocking truck.   tu About two months after resurfacing -    The surface is now stable and ready for next delivery of rainbows or browns in the stocking truck.

 

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