Water and sewage going where it shouldn’t will cost Baltimore taxpayers nearly $300,000 as the city settles two commercial claims before they go to trial.
The break of an underground pipe at Mulberry and Howard streets, which flooded CSX’s Howard Street Tunnel on December 27, 2020, will be resolved with a $185,000 payout to the Florida-based company, to be formally approved by the Board of Estimates next week.
CSX alleges that the Department of Public Works was aware that water was leaking from the main, having been “put on notice” by the railroad, but failed to take corrective action, according to documents from the city law department.
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