A workshop aimed at helping clean up Baltimore's troubled harbor has been postponed a week by our snowpocalypse.

The half-day session, originally planned for Saturday (Feb. 13), has been rescheduled for Feb. 20, according to Dr. Ray Bahr of the Baltimore Harbor Watershed Association.   The association has been working with the city and other nonprofit groups to round up community support for tackling the trash and storm-water pollution that washes into the harbor at Canton.   Twenty neighborhoods from Canton inland to Clifton Park drain into the harbor there, at a point where once there was a surface stream known as Harris Creek.   It's long since been filled in and paved over.

(The photo above is from a watershed tour offered community leaders on a rainy Saturday last fall.)

The workshop, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Casimir's Hall in Canton, is intended to get residents working on a plan for cleaning up what's draining into the harbor from those communities' streets by greening and upgrading their neighborhoods. Helping with the workshop are the Center for Watershed Protection, Morgan State University and Parks & People Foundation.

St. Casimir's is at 2716 O'Donnell St., on the corner of O'Donnell and Kenwood Avenuve. For more on the effort, go here. To RSVP to the workshop, go here.

Meanwhile, a lecture scheduled Saturday afternoon at the Canton Library about the history of Harris Creek has been canceled by the storm.  Dr. Bahr, a retired cardiologist, amateur historian and Canton native, will recount the tale of shipbuilding, oyster canning and more at a later date to be determined.

(Photos by Steve Ruark/Special to The Baltimore Sun)