PATAPSCO LAND ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Chairman: Howard DeMuth
Representing the State:
H. Lee Hoffman, Nancy A. Parr, I. Alvin Pasarew, Charles

M. Bandiere, Mrs. Jesse F. Hakes, August A. Denhard.
Representing the Counties:

Anne Arundel County: Walter C. Munroe, John W. Sherwood;
Baltimore County: George A. Oursler, Charles W. Keller,
Jr., Carroll County: Walter V. Bennett, Capt. H. C. Jeffer-
son; Howard County: Car] W. Meyer, A. Brooke Gallion.
Representing Baltimore City:
John A. Cochran, Robert Garrett.

The Patapsco Land Advisory Committee was appointed in June
1951, by the Governor. It consists of sixteen members, six represent-
ing the State, two representing Baltimore City and two representing
each of the four counties in which the park is situated. The Com-
mittee serves as an advisory group to the Department of Forests and
Parks in the acquisition of land for the Patapsco River Valley Park.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, MINES AND
WATER RESOURCES

The Commission:

Chairman: Arthur B. Stewart, 1957

Joseph C. Lore, Jr., 1954; Harry R. Hall, 1955; C. Victor
Cushwa, 1956; Mervin A. Pentz, 1958.
Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., Director

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18
Telephone: Belmont 5-0771

The Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources was estab-
lished in 1941, superseding the State Geological and Economic Survey
Advisory Commission, the Water Front Commission and the Water
Resources Commission. The Department is under the direction of a
Commission of five members appointed by the Governor for terms of
five years. The term of one member expires each year. The Commis-
sion selects its own chairman and appoints the Director of the Depart-
ment. Those functions of the Department dealing with geology and
water resources are under the immediate supervision of the Director;
the supervision of the mining industry is charged to the Bureau of
Mines.

The Department has supervision of topographic, geologic, hydro-
graphic, and magnetic surveys. It prepares topographic, geologic and
such other maps as may be necessary to meet a specific need. Reports
on the extent and character of the State's mineral and water resources
are prepared by the Department. In cooperation with the United
States Government, surveys of the water resources of the State are
made. The agency investigates and recommends plans and policies for
the protection of the State's waterfront and waterways against
erosion. The Department has the further power to control and to
conserve, in so far as is practicable, the surface and underground
waters of Maryland; and to that end has jurisdiction over the con-
struction and repairs of reservoirs, dams, and other water-way obstruc-
tions. In order to carry out this function, the Department licenses all
water well drillers in the State and issues a permit for each well to be