The stinky liquid that The Brew found emptying out of Baltimore’s Back River Waste Water Treatment Plant on Saturday was a mixture of suspended solids, dead plankton, shelled amoeba, dead insect larvae and moderate to heavy levels of bacteria.
In response to a complaint by the Back River Restoration Committee, water samples were taken at the same outfall pier on Sunday by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE).
Lab tests found that the brown-and-orange gunk was “consistent [with] partially but not completely treated” sewage, but “is not equivalent to raw sewage or feces.”
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