Harris Creek (Maryland) is a tidal creek on the eastern shore of Maryland.
[1] It flows from north to south into the Chesapeake Bay, in Talbot County, Maryland, near Tilghman Island.
[2] The Nature Conservancy, and the Oyster Recovery Partnership,[3] Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planted oyster spat on 350 underwater acres.
[5][6] Water quality is measured with a vertical profiler and water quality sondes moored at the bottom.
[7] In 2013, 112,500 tons of fossilized oyster shell were transported from Florida, and 42,536 tons of the shell went into Harris Creek (the rest went to the Little Choptank River.