In an extraordinary move, the Hogan administration today directed the nonprofit Maryland Environmental Service (MES) to take charge of operations at Baltimore’s Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The state took action after the city failed to comply with an order issued Thursday to cease all illegal sewage discharges and bring the facility into full compliance within 48 hours.
Today’s directive says the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) “has determined that the decline in the proper maintenance and operation of the plant risks catastrophic failures at the plant that may result in environmental harm as well as adverse public health and comfort effects.”
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