Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper

05/31/2018

Over 10 million gallons of raw, untreated liquid f***s overflowed into Baltimore's waterways over the weekend. Aside from harmful bacteria and pathogens, sewage carries huge amounts of nutrients, toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other pollutants directly into our streams and Harbor. This makes our work to ensure that the City's sewage consent decree is implemented properly all the more important as we face an increasing number of extreme weather events in the near future. In the coming weeks, see the impacts of all this sewage on our waterways at www.HarborAlert.org.

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As parts of Baltimore and Howard counties flooded Sunday, the heavy rains were also washing 10 million gallons of sewage-contaminated stormwater into the Jones Falls. It was one of the largest discharges of waste city officials have reported in recent years.

05/28/2018

There is flooding already in Ellicott City, Catonsville and our own Jones Falls with more rain expected tonight. Stay safe!

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The deluge of rain that caused flash flooding in Ellicott City and across the Baltimore region Sunday prompted the evacuation of at least three businesses in the city’s Woodberry neighborhood, according to the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management.

05/27/2018

Way to go Ocean City!

05/25/2018

Thanks to our advocacy, Baltimore City now has an expedited program to help reimburse residents for sewage backups into their homes. Learn more at: https://publicworks.baltimorecity.gov/sewer-consent-decree/building-backups

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Baltimore will now pay up to $2,500 toward cleanup costs associated with some basement sewage backups. The city launched the reimbursement program last month under a federally supervised program to modernize its aged, leaky sewer system.

05/23/2018

Did you know that today is World Turtle Day? Neither did we until our Waterkeeper team bumped into this little guy earlier today at the Downtown Sailing Center while collecting water samples from the Patapsco! Believe it or not, the Harbor is teeming with life. Check out all our monitoring data at www.HarborAlert.org to learn more.

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05/22/2018

When it rains, you know where to find our Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper team...sampling our streams and hunting down sewage, of course! You can see the data from today's outing in the Gwynns Falls at www.HarborAlert.org as soon as we get results back from our lab. In the mean time, come out to Joe Squared on Thursday for a special Happy Hour to support our work! https://www.facebook.com/events/639935239672187/

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05/18/2018

Over 1.2 million gallons of raw sewage have overflowed into the Jones Falls due to the deluge of rain we've been getting. That's two olympic-sized swimming pools full of liquid f***s.

Keep an eye out for more sewage overflows, and report them to 311 and to our pollution reporting hotline: https://www.bluewaterbaltimore.org/take-action/report-pollution/

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works estimates that over 1.2 million gallons of waste water overflowed into the Jones Falls on Thursday, May 17, between midnight and 1 p.m. This overflow, which occurred at a structured overflow in the 400 block of East Preston Street, was caused by water in...

05/16/2018

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05/09/2018

Another successful day of water quality monitoring on the boat! We detected very high dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll, and pH readings all of which point to an algae bloom. The water looked quite reddish brown, and we suspect it's a mahogany tide. Algae blooms are caused by sewage and stormwater pollution and can lead to fish kills.

05/03/2018

DID SOMEBODY SAY PIZZA? For the entire month of May, snag a "Blue Water Baltimore" special pizza at Joe Squared and a portion of the proceeds will go towards sewage sleuthing and busting baddies.