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.
A stubborn discharge from a series of breaks in an 89-year-old sewer pipe under the 2500 block of W. Lexington Street has been stopped, about a month and a half after the breaks were diagnosed.
The Baltimore City Department of Public Works estimates that over 41,000 gallons of wastewater overflowed into the Jones Falls between Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, and this morning, Monday, October 23, 2017.
Today, DPW was honored to receive the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) Gold Award for Exceptional Utility Performance. This award comes just as DPW Director Rudy S. Chow, P.E., is appointed to the Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB), an arm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
