What’s in a Name? Too Much Sewage, Says Baltimore’s Back River Community

Douglas Celmer is a proud Back River community leader who lives on the same Baltimore County waterway his farming family has for the last hundred years.

But he and his neighbors have become too embarrassed to tell people they live there because of the ridicule they get by virtue of sharing a name with the sewage-clogged Baltimore City-run Back River Waste Water Treatment Plant.

“I’ll be honest, I usually tell people I live in Rocky Point,” said Celmer, board chair of the Back River Neck Peninsula Community Association, Inc.

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