That Brown Water? Probably Not Mud....

[Spot77]

http://www.foxbaltimore.com/newsroom...vid_9473.shtml

ANOTHER 525,000 gallons of sewage spilled into the Patapsco.

And I never heard about the 100 million gallons that spilled after Irene a few weeks ago.

Should we be holding municipal or county governments liable for these types of things? What about the contractor that recently installed the new pipes that failed?

More sewage has spilled into the Patapsco River, which saw 100 million gallons of raw sewage spill after Hurricane Irene.

The most recent spill occurred early Saturday when a joint failed in pipes that had been installed after Irene.

Some 525,000 gallons of sewage spilled from a 54-inch concrete pipe into the lower Patapsco.

Baltimore County spent $500,000 to replace aging pipes earlier this month after a main conduit ruptured after the hurricane.

County officials have posted signs along the river saying the water is unsafe to swim or wade in, or even touch.
Patapsco River Sewage Spill
Monday, September 19 2011, 10:05 PM EDT

[garlien]

**** yeah, these spills are a bunch of crap...

They need to be held liable for this stuff...

[Steve F]

This is outrageous, first the 1,000,000 gallons crap and now this. Somebody needs to be liable and I don't think that the river can handle to many more of these spills.

[5th Tuition]

I've said it before, I'll say it again; I don't like Obama having all these Czar's, but we have a Chesapeake Bay Czar, and I'd like to be Czar for a day.

I would contact the press and have them outside the Gov.'s residence and also the Mayor's residence and I would walk them both out in handcuffs for a photo opportunity.

Those photo's would make newspaper and tv spots all over the country.

Action must be taken. Oops, is no longer a valid response to these sewage spills.

5th (Marty)

[garlien]

Where do we sign up ?

Maybe we take them in chains and make them take a swim in the Patapsco....

[Spot77]

Originally Posted by 5th Tuition

I've said it before, I'll say it again; I don't like Obama having all these Czar's, but we have a Chesapeake Bay Czar, and I'd like to be Czar for a day.

I would contact the press and have them outside the Gov.'s residence and also the Mayor's residence and I would walk them both out in handcuffs for a photo opportunity.

Those photo's would make newspaper and tv spots all over the country.

Action must be taken. Oops, is no longer a valid response to these sewage spills.

5th (Marty)

We DO? Must not be very effective...I had no clue such a position existed.

You're right....I'm f'ing sick of the "oops" excuse.

Obviously our sewage handling infrastructure is inadequate both in its ability to handle demand, and in its maintenance and inspections.

Why do we keep allowing more and more development that adds more burden to the already failing system?

[Spot77]

http://www.foxbaltimore.com/newsroom...vid_9488.shtml

Storms Leave Chesapeake Full of Debris
Tuesday, September 20 2011, 05:41 PM EDT


Back-to-back storms have dumped mud, debris and pollutants into the Chesapeake from across the bay's six-state watershed, turning it into a brown plume that can be seen from space. Scientists are now fanning out across the bay's 200-mile length to learn how Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee are affecting the nation's largest estuary.

A Maryland Department of Natural Resources crew aboard a research vessel finished two days of water quality sampling in the middle bay on Tuesday.

The good news, they say, is the storms stirred bay waters and they didn't find any dead zones where oxygen is too low to support aquatic life. The bad news is the water is still muddy, although not as cloudy as last week. That's bad for bay grasses and oysters.Storms

[Spot77]

So our "Chesapeake Bay Czar" is named Jeff Corbin


http://www.hometownannapolis.com/new...-bay-czar.html

[garlien]

I worked for an engineering company a few years ago...One of the things I found out was that our entire public infrastructure in Baltimore and the surrounding areas is falling apart...Most of it was built before we were all born and the conditions will only get worse...There are entire sections of sewer on the east side of Baltimore that are crumbling...Both sanitary and storm water...

Sooner or later I believe we are going to get a catastrophic failure somewhere in the system....One that will take a very long time to mitigate, much less resolve...The sad part is, as we can see, there is hardly enough "public funds" to keep up with the breaks that are happening, much less to begin the process of replacing the infrastructure that is failing....

Sad, but true facts, maybe somehow we will all get lucky and I will be very wrong, recent events however, don't seem to help at all....

[Spot77]

We're too busy replacing those oxidized guardrails with shiny new ones.