In honor of America Recycles Day, DPW is hosting a recycling trifecta: a plastic bag takeback, free document shredding, and a recycle bin sale. Residents who bring in five or more plastic grocery bags will receive a free reusable grocery bag (limit one reusable bag per resident).
Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) Director Rudolph S. Chow, P.E., reminds residents that Veterans Day will be observed as a City holiday on Friday, November 10, 2017, and that DPW offices will be closed on that day.
The Baltimore City Department of Public Works was named a finalist in the Greater Baltimore Committee’s 14th Annual Bridging the Gap Achievement Awards. The awards were presented November 1 during a ceremony honoring businesses and minority and women-owned firms for business achievement and efforts to strengthen minority business development.
The Baltimore City Department of Public Works estimates that 17,710 gallons of wastewater overflowed into the Gwynns Falls in recent days as a result of structural damage to a segment of 8” sewer pipe in the 2500 block of Edmondson Avenue.
