Fresh Water, Foul Sewage

How good a job is Baltimore doing supplying residents with clean, affordable water and making changes that will finally ends its practice of releasing trash and millions of gallons of human waste into local waterways and Chesapeake Bay?

Lawmakers approve one-year moratorium on homes going to tax sale for water bills

Advocates said the measure was stripped down after lobbying by Mayor Pugh.

Conway, Pugh blocking bill to end tax sales over water bills, supporters say

Mary Washington says election year politics – and City Hall opposition – are stalling her bill to halt tax sales over unpaid water bills.

Jones Falls gets another 5 million gallon dousing of sewage

Baltimore’s failing sewer system also sent human waste into Western Run, following heavy rainfall.

2 million gallons of sewage released into the Jones Falls

Meanwhile, city approves $172,000 to a victim of multiple basement sewage backups.

Chow challenged on Baltimore County sewage flowing into city system

Activists call on DPW chief to take action on a neighboring system they said is overwhelmed.

Water main break shuts Mitchell Courthouse early

DPW turned off water to several downtown blocks because the break, centered at 6. St. Paul Street, “was getting too big.”

Worst Bay polluters in seven states? Baltimore’s own sewage plants

New report documents the grease globs, blown deadlines, illegal nutrient releases and other sources of Chesapeake Bay pollution caused by treatment plants in Baltimore and beyond.

Industrial runoff fouls Chesapeake Bay, threatens health, report says

Lax state oversight permits pollution by auto salvage yards, metal recyclers and others, environmental groups find.

Sewage flows into the Gwynns Falls for nearly a week

Latest overflow caused by a collapsed sewer pipe was just blocks from a major spill that took two months to fix.

Multiple sewer leaks in a 1920s pipe finally fixed, DPW says

Gwynns Falls was recipient of 580,000 gallons of sewage water.

Jones Falls oil spill traced to BGE substation

Company “will make any needed repairs and remediation under the Maryland Department of the Environment’s oversight.”

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Spilled oil flows into the Jones Falls and Inner Harbor

Petroleum-based lubricant traced to a stormwater outfall on Falls Road.

City releases 41,000 more gallons of sewage into the Jones Falls

DPW says the cause has not been determined. Could it be another “fatberg”?

Right under our noses: An environmental engineer reflects on the secret pipe at Clipper Mill

The irony of a rogue sewer line running beneath her company’s headquarters was not lost on a senior employee.

A whistleblower says he reported odors near the secret sewage pipe for years

Who knew a pipe had been cut to let wastewater flow into the Jones Falls – and when did they know it?

City finds a secret pipe discharging sewage into the Jones Fall

An environmental whodunit unfolds as the city follows the pollution trail to a one-time cotton mill near the ritzy Clipper Mill development.

Trout upstream in the Jones Falls and – sigh – sewage downstream

Baltimore’s latest release of fecal waste, 141,000 gallons, caused by a city contractor

Broken pipe spills 44,000 gallons of sewage into the Gwynns Falls

Underground leak flowed into storm sewer system and did not reach the street, DPW says.

Summer rain and the sewage that runs through it

Overflows of wastewater are spiking this summer. Most of the stuff is headed to the Jones Falls and, from there, the Inner Harbor.

City says it will reimburse victims of basement sewage back-ups

In a nod to public criticism, DPW promises to compensate residents for sewer overflows as part of federal consent decree.

Baltimore released over 7 million gallons of sewage into Jones Falls

After heavy rain on Friday and Saturday, human waste overflowed underground and on a Baltimore street.