Baltimore Checkbook: Canton water wheel is 80% toward funding goal after $200,000 gift from state port administration

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Canton water wheel is 80% toward funding goal after $200,000 gift from state port administration

The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore Inc. is now at 80 percent of its fundraising goal toward building a new trash-collecting water wheel in Canton after a $200,000 donation from the Maryland Port Administration. The organization’s Healthy Harbor Initiative has set a goal of raising $550,000 to construct the wheel at the outfall of Harris Creek near Boston Street Pier Park. In addition to the Port Administration’s donation, the Island Foundation recently donated $30,000 toward the wheel. MOM's…