Officials are posting signs warning people to avoid contact with the river based on bacteria levels recorded near Baltimore’s failing sewage treatment plant.
We join a community activist who says state and city officials are not telling the truth about what the plant is releasing into this Baltimore County waterway.
The Maryland Department of the Environment directs the Maryland Environmental Service to take charge of the polluting plant, saying it poses a risk to public health and the environment.
Citing “a precipitous decline” in the functioning of Baltimore’s Back River Waste Water Treatment Plant, Maryland orders it to come into compliance within 48 hours.