DPW Reports Structured Wastewater Outfall Totals Resulting from Wednesday Night Rains
Friday Aug 19th, 2016
The Baltimore City Department of Public Works estimates that 1.35 million gallons of rainwater, mixed with sewer water, was released from a total of four structured outfalls on Wednesday night through Thursday morning, August 17-18, 2016. These releases entered the Jones Falls. The Department noted this in a press release on August 18.
Structured outfalls were designed into the system more than 100 years ago to provide such releases when the sewers became inundated with rainwater.
The Baltimore City Health Department and the Maryland Department of the Environment were notified of the releases.
The public is reminded to avoid contact with urban waterways due to the risk of pollution. For more information about health concerns as a result of sewer overflows please go to http://health.baltimorecity.gov/sanitary-sewer-overflows-sso.