The Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) is accepting comments on the Baltimore Harbor Watershed Assessment and the Lower North Branch Patapsco Watershed Assessment.
Thanksgiving Day is a City holiday; the Baltimore City Department of Public Works’ (DPW) offices and yards will be closed on Thursday, November 22. DPW offices and facilities are open on Friday, November 23, and trash and recycling collections will occur as scheduled on that day.
As previously reported, rain and snow on November 15, contributed to two sanitary sewer overflows of stormwater mixed with sewer water into the Jones Falls. As an update, the final total for the overflow at 428 E. Preston Street for this rain event was 7.1 million gallons. These releases occurred underground in structured overflows and did not spill into city streets.
Rains in the Baltimore area early this week contributed to a sanitary sewer overflow into the Jones Falls of 554,000 gallons of stormwater mixed with sewer water.
Rains in the Baltimore area earlier this week contributed to sanitary sewer overflows of 8.3 million gallons of stormwater mixed with sewer water into the Jones Falls from locations on Preston Street and on Falls Road; and into the Harbor from Eager Street and Chase Street.
Baltimore City Department of Public Works Director Rudolph S. Chow, P.E., reminds everyone that Monday, November 12, 2018, is observed as the Veterans Day holiday.
The heavy rains in the Baltimore area on Friday, Nov. 2, contributed to a sanitary sewer overflow of 917,000 gallons of stormwater mixed with sewer water into the Jones Falls near Preston Street.
United States Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) introduced Oct. 10, 2018, a bill (the Low-Income Water Customer Assistance Programs Act of 2018, S. 3564) to establish 32 nationwide pilot programs to provide low-income residents with financial assistance to pay their water and sewer bills.