Councilman Chris Trumbauer Took an Unusual Path to Politics

Local riverkeeper wanted to use public office as a way to advocate for the environment.

By Mitchelle Stephenson

Chris Trumbauer didn’t come to his political position through some carefully crafted lifelong desire to spend his adult years as a politician.

In fact, the West/Rhode Riverkeeper's favorite thing to do is to be outdoors.

When he was a child growing up near the Chester River, he remembers spending more time on the water than not....

...Trumbauer has spent time in all corners of the state studying water quality. After graduating from the University of Maryland with a degree in chemistry, he worked briefly in the private sector and then spent a decade with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sampling water quality around the state.

“I operated out of Annapolis, but I got to travel all over," he said. "I tested water at Deep Creek Lake, coastal bays. Wherever there was water in Maryland, that was where we went.”

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