Welcome to the Jones Falls Watershed Association
JFWA Mission: Jones Falls Watershed Association works to protect and restore the health and beauty of the Jones Falls Watershed through restoration, monitoring, advocacy, and citizen awareness.
Learn more about our activities from our E-Newsletters.
The Jones Falls Watershed Association is a volunteer-driven grassroots organization started in 1997 to protect and restore the Jones Falls and its tributaries. The organization is credited with bringing attention back to the river and building awareness of the stream and stream valley as natural resource assets for the community.
The Jones Falls watershed encompasses 58 square miles including rural segments of Baltimore County at its upper reaches. The stream meanders through increasing levels of development until it emerges from a tunnel at Baltimore City's Inner Harbor. If you are interested in learning more about about issues that face the Jones Falls, please click here.
Volunteers for JFWA participate in trash cleanups, water quality monitoring, buffer plantings and outreach. Additionally, volunteers assist with outreach and work with large landowners in the watershed to improve land management practices to improve water quality. We encourage you to get involved and volunteer at an upcoming event — find an event on our calendar!
Do you want to help reduce dirt pollution entering streams in the watershed? Would you like to start reporting construction sites that needlessly track dirt onto streets and into stormdrains? Click here to learn about our partnership with the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper and sign up for a Get The Dirt Out Chesapeake volunteer training session!
Help reduce erosion and pollution caused by stormwater run-off: Learn more about rain barrels and order one from the JFWA online. Click here! *** Rain barrels orders are currently on a waiting list - Expect more barrels next month ***
