Herring Run Stream Restoration  (Western Branch)
Loch Raven Blvd & Perring Pkwy
Baltimore City, Maryland 21239

The City of Baltimore Department of Public Works is accepting public review and comments on this project’s application for a stormwater qualitative control waiver. If granted, the project will still need to provide water qualitative controls, per the requirements of the State’s Design Manual. 

Applicant: Baltimore City Department of Public Works, 200 Holiday Street #600, Baltimore, MD 21202
ESD #: 7435
Watershed(s): Back River

Project Description: The project is located at two separate locations within the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks property of Mount Pleasant Golf Course and five private properties with a total Limit of Disturbance of 9.8 acres. The work will be limited to the stream valley with some temporary staging and access areas outside the stream channel. The Western Branch limits are located between just west of Loch Raven Blvd and runs south to Perring Parkway. The Unnamed Branch is located completed on the golf course property by hole 6.

The project provides natural channel stabilization which will include channel grading, placement of stone, tree removal and reforestation/planting. The project will also provide storm drain repair and protection of underground utilities and infrastructure.

The Applicant is requesting a stormwater qualitative control waiver in accordance with Article 7, §23-2 of the City Code based on runoff conditions remaining unchanged from predevelopment conditions.  There is no change in impervious surface and the work will provide stabilization of a natural stream channel.  The project is not required to provide stormwater management.

To obtain information about this application, please contact Mr. Nathaniel Krause, Baltimore City Department of Public Works, Office of Compliance and Laboratories, 3001 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, MD 21215, (410-396-0732) or by e-mail to DPW.Plansreview@baltimorecity.gov. To obtain specific information concerning the above referenced project, contact Environmental Engineering Project Delivery Section, Jalil Abdul (410-396-3440).

Send information or comments about this waiver request to Mr. Nathaniel Krause, Baltimore City Department of Public Works, Office of Compliance and Laboratories, 3001 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, MD  21215, (410-396-0732) or by e-mail to DPW.Plansreview@baltimorecity.gov by 4:30 PM, April 17, 2020. Comments received after 4:30 PM April 17, 2020, will not be considered.

Any further notices about actions on this waiver request will be posted on the Department’s website.