Sanitary Overflow on Parkdale Avenue Abated and Repaired
Thursday Oct 25th, 2018
Crews with the Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) yesterday, Oct. 24, fixed a 2 gallon-per-minute leak on a broken sewer pipe at 3500 Parkdale Avenue. Nearly 20,000 gallons of sewage seeped into the Jones Falls during the week that the sewage was escaping from the sewer pipe.
The broken pipe was discovered a year ago when DPW inspectors found the pipe installed inside a much larger storm drain. The initial leak had been stopped with a pump that bypassed sewage from the broken pipe into a nearby sewer line. The pump stopped working on Oct. 17, but has since been replaced, tested and confirmed to be fully functional.