tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57054281260844227902024-03-13T16:53:06.222-07:00The (inconvenient) Truth About No Discharge ZonesKurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-65411172204998430482024-01-02T17:29:00.000-08:002024-01-02T17:33:10.748-08:00Broken Pipe Spills 5,000 Gallons - Annapolis Maryland (Chesapeake Bay)<p>5,000 Gallons Spills into Chesapeake Bay Area.<br /></p><p>From The Baltimore Sun:</p><p><br /></p><h1 class="viewsTitleText"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/broken-pipe-causes-5-000-gallons-of-sewage-to-spill-in-annapolis-neighborhood-officials-say/ar-AA1mnqlB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ba577d4db9784726b7dc85d02259ca86&ei=26 ">Broken pipe causes 5,000 gallons of sewage to spill in Annapolis neighborhood, officials say</a></h1><p></p><p> <br /></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">A sewer system blockage spilled 5,000 gallons of sewage in southeast Annapolis on Sunday, city officials said.</p> <p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}">At
approximately noon on Sunday, the city's Department of Public Works was
alerted to a spill in the sewage outfall in the 200 block of Victor
Parkway near the Fairwinds Condominium community.</p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-87544450355780369792022-12-24T14:20:00.003-08:002022-12-24T14:22:07.546-08:00Maryland halts shelfish harvesting in Chesapeake Bay<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Going back just a few posts, you'll find we originally mentioned <a href="https://ndztruth.blogspot.com/2022/09/baltimore-still-cant-get-their-hit.html">this very same issue</a> in September, 2022. The problem predates even then, but it may be getting worse. Where is Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and the state of Maryland? Who is going to be held responsible? Heck, are they ever going to fix it?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> From the quality reporting at WTOP:</span></p><h1 class="page__single--title schema-title"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wtop.com/anne-arundel-county/2022/12/maryland-temporarily-halts-shellfish-harvesting-in-part-of-chesapeake-bay/">Maryland temporarily halts shellfish harvesting in part of Chesapeake Bay</a></span></h1><p></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-29951355429285524442022-10-05T19:43:00.004-07:002022-10-05T19:43:48.729-07:007.2 Million Gallons from Brevard County, FL<p>Hurricane or not, that's a huge amount of rawz untreated waste into the environment. And this is just one county in one state Hurricane Ian impacted. </p><p>https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/environment/lagoon/2022/09/30/brevard-county-spills-7-2-million-gallons-highly-treated-sewage-into-indian-river-lagoon/8137922001/</p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-89489431766626819812022-10-05T19:38:00.007-07:002022-10-05T19:39:31.972-07:00Fresh water bodies get a lot of poop, too - Ann Arbor, MI1.4 MILLION GALLONS. That's some serious $hit!<div><br /></div><div>https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/10/ann-arbor-system-failure-sends-14m-gallons-of-sewage-into-huron-river.html</div>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-22098509287629721622022-09-22T18:35:00.000-07:002022-09-22T18:35:07.868-07:00Baltimore still can't get their $hit together.<p>More ongoing municipal waste water treatment issues with discharge into Baltimore County's Back Creek (I think that is considered Baltimore County, but it is Baltimore City's waste and responsibility, regardless).</p><p><a href="https://wtop.com/maryland/2022/09/lawmakers-tour-troubled-wastewater-treatment-plant-and-ponder-more-state-help/"> From WTOP New and Maryland Matters</a></p><p>A nicely written human interest story from Maryland Matters about this issue:</p><p><a href="https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/06/08/sample-this-disgruntled-residents-monitor-back-river-for-pollution/">Pollution crisis at the water plant</a></p><p>“There needs to be signage warning the public that the area is known to have unsafe levels of bacteria and to avoid contact with the water, particularly during the 48 hours after a rain.”"</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-41437417077152281182022-09-18T11:00:00.003-07:002022-09-18T11:01:52.919-07:00A massive new sewer tunnel in Alexandria hopes to clean up the Potomac<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> From <a href="https://wtop.com/">WTOP</a>:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><h1 class="page__single--title schema-title"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://wtop.com/alexandria/2022/09/a-massive-new-sewer-tunnel-in-alexandria-hopes-to-clean-up-the-potomac/">A massive new sewer tunnel in Alexandria hopes to clean up the Potomac</a></span></span></h1><h1 class="page__single--title schema-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is, of course, a very good thing the city of Alexandria is doing. It is also a well-written article. But, what caught my eye the most are the facts and figures included:</span></span></h1><h1 class="page__single--title schema-title"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“about 140
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Alexandria...That sewage is loaded with bacteria, nitrogen and phosphorus, which
impacts the water quality of the Potomac River in the Chesapeake Bay.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></h1><h1 class="page__single--title schema-title"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"The overall cost of the project is a whopping $615 million."</span></span></i></h1><h1 class="page__single--title schema-title"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"[The tunnel] will bring that mixture to the wastewater treatment plant where it will be treated and then discharged into the Potomac."</span></span></i></h1><h1 class="page__single--title schema-title"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">140 million gallons per year! Think about how much that is times all the other cities (like DC!) on or around the Potomac and how much all the marine toilets in the area could possibly put out. There is no comparison. So why are the "environmental" groups so hung up on outlawing marine treatment systems? Aren't the goals actually the same; to treat and release sewage to protect the environment? How is one "treat and release" better than another? The anti-boaters will say that marine systems do not treat waste as well as municipal plants. This is a lie as the facts prove when figures are compared. The unit I use requires the same chemical tablet that is sold by the truckload to municipal plants (I went shopping for it but don't want to order by the pallet). The answer is both control (they LOVE telling other people what to do) and expense. They are so hung up on control they want your poop! Think about it; this is just one city that is taking action at a cost of $615,000,000. What about Baltimore? What about Annapolis? What about Cambridge? What are they discharging and how? What will it cost to fix those aging, overwhelmed systems?<br /></span></span></h1><p></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-18763932572962558892022-07-28T19:10:00.001-07:002022-10-05T19:44:37.180-07:00Maryland's Back Creek is now a Black Creek (or is that "Brown Creek").<p>More trouble in the paradise of poop, er, Maryland. Yet another government source of human waste flowing into the Chesapeake Bay.</p><p><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-back-river-community-meeting-20220727-gbhbkifd4bec5p2qm7iqt37sli-story.html">Baltimore Sun Article</a> </p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-61947851341369722812022-02-17T04:59:00.000-08:002022-02-17T04:59:21.920-08:00<p><a href="https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/agriculture/environmental-group-sues-city-of-marathon-fla-for-dumping-sewage-into-the-florida-keys/">Marathon, FL USA </a><br /></p><p>Yet another failure of "No Discharge Zone" legislation. In the Florida Keys it is illegal for a boat to treat their waste and discharge via a USCG approved Marine Sanitation System (Type I or Type II). So what is one forced to do; pump it out at a marina where it goes to a government facility and then they can discharge it raw into the surrounding waters. I guess poop from government doesn't stink?</p><p><a href="https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/agriculture/environmental-group-sues-city-of-marathon-fla-for-dumping-sewage-into-the-florida-keys/">https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/agriculture/environmental-group-sues-city-of-marathon-fla-for-dumping-sewage-into-the-florida-keys/</a><br /></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-33720291188384729902021-07-31T10:15:00.000-07:002021-07-31T10:15:09.329-07:00<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-12/la-me-power-plant-sewage-ocean"> 17 Million Gallons of Sewage into Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-12/la-me-power-plant-sewage-ocean">As reported by the LA Times.</a></span></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-67173049808268437432021-05-25T05:42:00.002-07:002021-05-25T05:46:36.316-07:00<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Just a few examples of recent municipal sewage spills (where's the outrage?):</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://www.wbaltv.com/article/recreational-water-advisory-stoney-creek-anne-arundel-county/36520958"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stoney Creek (Chesapeake Bay, MD).</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2021/05/major-sewage-spill-in-florida-alabama-public-advised-to-stay-out-of-water-in-perdido-bay.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Perdido Bay (Florida, Alabama).</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2021/05/14/several-million-gallons-sewage-spilled-bayou-marcus-sewage-treatment-plant/5093804001/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pensacola, FL ("millions of gallons").</span></a></p><p><br /></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-19879424234850267582021-02-07T09:16:00.004-08:002021-02-07T09:20:57.998-08:00Confused in Vero Beach<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> While the article is dated Nov. 4, 2019 the content is a recurring theme amongst those that want to blame boaters for municipal waste treatment issues and spills.</span></p><h1 class="gnt_ar_hl" elementtiming="ar-headline" style="color: #303030; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 6px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"<a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Xs_xlo58HLMJ:https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2019/11/04/environmental-group-wants-stop-boats-discharging-waste-into-lagoon/2499896001/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" target="_blank">Environmental group wants to stop boats dumping waste in Vero Beach, Indian River Lagoon</a>" - TCTimes</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Again, it is already illegal for boats/ships/vessels to discharge raw, untreated waste in the waters around Vero Beach, FL. What good will it do to outlaw the use of currently legal waste treatment systems? I suggest <a href="https://www.cwcirc.org/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-size: 16px;">The </span><span style="color: #303030;"><span style="background-color: white; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254); text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-underline-offset: 2px;">Clean Water Coalition of Indian River County </span></span></a> may want to spend their time and resources on working with the city of Vero Beach to contain land-based sewage spills:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="gnt_ar_hl" elementtiming="ar-headline" style="color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 6px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lIeuCAGZ35kJ:https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2018/01/08/irc-sewer-line-break-creates-3-foot-geyser-indian-river-lagoon-ocean-not-risk/1012882001/+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" target="_blank">Vero Beach sewer line breaks twice in 2 months, blamed on cold weather (3,000 gallons).</a></h1></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="gnt_ar_hl" elementtiming="ar-headline" style="color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans", "Helvetica Neue", "Arial Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 6px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iQ9cAwp1LIcJ:https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2017/12/08/indian-river-lagoons-bethel-creek-clean-3-weeks-after-3-million-gallon-sewage-spill/930573001/+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" target="_blank">3 weeks after 3 million-gallon sewage spill, residents 'seeing stuff floating on top of the water' in Bethel Creek (3.1 MILLION gallons - that would take a LOT of boats!).</a></h1></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190413/sewer-crisis-in-state-of-florida/1" target="_blank"><b>This is a very good article explaining the sewer and waste water issues in Florida. </b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Think about it: Treat it on a boat or put it into a failing municipal system via pump-out? What's next; we treat waste on boats and then hand it over at a pump out so it is nice and sterile going into a failing municipal system?</span></div>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-64869432921866140852020-10-03T10:47:00.004-07:002021-02-07T09:22:00.054-08:00<p>Here we go again with the attacks on recreational (and commercial) boating described as "No Discharge". What do these organizations not understand about TREATED waste (just like, if not cleaner than a pump-out)? Who is funding these sponsors? What is their actual goal (as it sure isn't clean water)? Ask your representatives to comment soon as you can:</p><p><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/23/2020-20957/clean-water-act-maryland-city-of-annapolis-and-anne-arundel-county-vessel-sewage-no-discharge-zone?fbclid=IwAR1Y0DNPTHbYdtg24DE72F3dHq0XAMiruiC9chhwyxiHXr93DuFDl5GmX08" target="_blank">LINK</a></p><p>Content you can ask your representatives to use is at the right side of <a href="http://www.ndztruth.com">http://www.ndztruth.com</a></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-3916630254933938392020-08-29T06:21:00.000-07:002020-08-29T06:21:33.268-07:00Officials: 3,700 gallons of sewage spills in North Carolina.<p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"> <a href="https://apnews.com/48a4cd6fb52db316daa362f31000685c">https://apnews.com/48a4cd6fb52db316daa362f31000685c</a></span></p><p class="Component-root-0-2-46 Component-p-0-2-38" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: FreightText, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0.75rem 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; width: 720px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">MARION, N.C. (AP) — Excessive rain from Tropical Storm Isaias caused nearly 3,700 gallons (14,006 liters) of sewage to spill into a river in North Carolina, officials said.</span></p><p class="Component-root-0-2-46 Component-p-0-2-38" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: FreightText, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0.75rem 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; width: 720px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">The discharge happened at the Clinchfield sewer pump station in Marion when rainfall entered into the collection system Monday, the city said in a news release. The untreated waste water then spilled into an “unnamed tributary of Lake James” in the Catawba River Basin, the release said.</span></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-47993239587077503792020-08-29T06:14:00.004-07:002020-08-29T06:14:56.195-07:0050,000 gallons of sewage spill into Oakland-Alameda waters after power failure<p><span style="color: white;"> <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/50-000-gallons-of-sewage-spill-into-15486932.php">https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/50-000-gallons-of-sewage-spill-into-15486932.php</a></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.45px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); color: white; font-family: "Tiempos Text Regular", "system serif"; font-size: 18px;">East Bay water managers released about 50,000 gallons of sewage into the estuary between Oakland and Alameda on Saturday morning after a power failure caused equipment to fail at a wastewater treatment plant.</span></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-48313369089569470892020-08-29T06:11:00.002-07:002020-08-29T06:15:59.782-07:001,800-Gallon Sewage Spill Forces Closure of Stretch of Torrey Pines State Beach<p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> <a href="https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/1800-gallon-sewage-spill-forces-closure-of-stretch-of-torrey-pines-state-beach/2384852/">https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/1800-gallon-sewage-spill-forces-closure-of-stretch-of-torrey-pines-state-beach/2384852/</a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></p><p><span color="" face="" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 17px;">The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health (DEH) warned beachgoers to avoid swimming in the waters off a small stretch of Torrey Pines State Beach due to a spill that sent 1,800 gallons of sewage into a storm drain nearby.</span></p>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-53916640690121132022019-03-25T16:31:00.001-07:002019-03-25T16:31:35.345-07:00Baltimore does it again.<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/environment/bs-md-ci-sewage-overflow-20190323-story.html">Another 22 Million Gallons</a>.</p>
Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-71498840611888084002018-09-17T19:18:00.001-07:002018-09-17T19:27:33.567-07:00Anne Arundel County dumps thousands of gallons of raw sewage. Their solution is to go after boats<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:1.50em;"><b><a href="https://www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com/baybulletin/2018/7/5/warning-sewage-spill-closes-carr-creek-on-severn-river">Warning: Sewage Spill Closes Carr Creek on Severn River</a></b></span><br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">The solution is to ban legal waste treatment systems on boats? One can't make this stuff up. Mayor "fruitcake"?</p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/environment/ac-cn-no-discharge-zones-20180912-story.html</span><br></p>
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Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-4666332566943987802018-08-01T11:14:00.000-07:002018-08-01T11:16:40.125-07:00Annapolis, MD harbors (creeks) look like a debris field!This link is to a publication (owned by The Baltimore Sun) that just a few months ago was pushing for "No Discharge Zones". Hey, perhaps it isn't the boaters???<br />
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Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-66162662267963843532018-08-01T11:10:00.001-07:002018-08-01T11:10:29.014-07:00Millions of gallons of raw waste into the Chesapeake (again)<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/environment/bs-md-flooding-sewage-pollution-20180727-story.html">When will this stop?</a><br />
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If we can only ban boaters from boating? The next post almost brings that to life.Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-20329436513003777982018-05-31T12:51:00.001-07:002018-05-31T12:54:09.066-07:00Another 10 MILLION gallons thanks to Baltimore City<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "droid serif" , serif;"><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/environment/bs-md-stormwater-sewage-20180530-story.html"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Weekend rain washes 10 million gallons of sewage-contaminated water into Baltimore's Jones Falls</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">As parts of the Baltimore region flooded Sunday, the heavy rains were also washing 10 million gallons of sewage-contaminated stormwater into Baltimore’s Jones Falls — one of the largest waste discharges city officials have reported in recent years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">Heavy rains routinely overload Baltimore’s aged sewer system, sending human waste out of manholes and outflows that pour directly into the Jones Falls.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">The overflows are the result of cracks and breaks in the aged sewer system, and of its century-old design. The city is under a consent decree with federal and state environmental regulators to end the overflows, which violate the federal Clean Water Act, by 2022.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">Most of the sewage, 7.5 million gallons, came out of an underground pipe near the intersection of Greenmount Avenue and East Preston Street, where the Jones Falls runs underground toward the <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/travel/tourism-leisure/inner-harbor-PLTRA000101-topic.html" id="PLTRA000101" title="Inner Harbor">Inner Harbor</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">Another 1.5 million gallons came out of a similar outflow slightly more upstream, where the falls flows along Falls Road near the Baltimore Streetcar Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">The city Department of Public Works is required to notify the public of such sewage overflows under the consent decree.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">Public works officials said smaller overflows occurred elsewhere around the city:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">They reported 12-million-gallons sewage overflows after storms <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-jones-falls-sewage-20160226-story.html" target="_blank">in February 2016</a> and <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/blog/bs-md-sewage-20140822-story.html" target="_blank">August 2014</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">The sewage pollution is the main contaminant preventing Baltimore from reaching goals of a swimmable and fishable harbor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">Environmental advocates announced Tuesday that <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/environment/bs-md-baltimore-water-quality-report-20180522-story.html" target="_blank">levels of fecal bacteria fell dramatically in Baltimore waterways last year</a>, possibly in part because of city work to repair broken and cracked sewer pipes, officials said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: #eeeeee;">Sewage pollution is not limited to the Jones Falls or other city waterways — Anne Arundel County officials on Tuesday closed a portion of the Patapsco River to swimmers through June 28. They said more than 1 million gallons of sewage washed into the river from Baltimore and Howard counties upstream.</span></div>
Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-8339482454600401262018-05-30T19:29:00.000-07:002018-05-30T19:29:00.821-07:00Section of Patapsco River Closed to Swimming and Other Direct Water Contact Due to Sewage Overflows<span style="background-color: white; color: #303030; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px;">May 29, 2018</span><br />
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May 29, 2018 – The Anne Arundel County Department of Health has closed a section of the Patapsco River to swimming and other direct water contact due to sewage overflows of more than 1 million gallons from Baltimore and Howard counties. The closed waterway area is from the Howard County line to the Baltimore City line along River Road, the Patapsco Valley State Park, and Belle Grove Road. </div>
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In Baltimore County, overflows occurred at the Patapsco Sewage Pumping Station, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://maps.google.com/?q%3D4612%2BAnnapolis%2BRoad%26entry%3Dgmail%26source%3Dg&source=gmail&ust=1527707094398000&usg=AFQjCNHfwZGowTQjjVQGM7qr3EVnO8waJg" data-wpel-link="external" href="https://maps.google.com/?q=4612+Annapolis+Road&entry=gmail&source=g" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="4612 Annapolis Road">4612 Annapolis Road</a> in Halethorpe, and the Frederick Road Pumping Station, at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://maps.google.com/?q%3D1809%2BFrederick%2BRoad%26entry%3Dgmail%26source%3Dg&source=gmail&ust=1527707094399000&usg=AFQjCNHu-2V3vYXRwCgbJK4efSxMM3BNhQ" data-wpel-link="external" href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1809+Frederick+Road&entry=gmail&source=g" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="1809 Frederick Road">1809 Frederick Road</a> in Catonsville on Sunday, May 27. For details, <a data-wpel-link="external" href="https://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/News/BaltimoreCountyNow/keyword/sewage%20overflow" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="Public Works Crews Responded to Two Sanitary Sewage Overflows Caused by Flooding">click here.</a></div>
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In Howard County, an overflow occurred at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://maps.google.com/?q%3D4547%2BBonnie%2BBranch%2BRoad%26entry%3Dgmail%26source%3Dg&source=gmail&ust=1527707094399000&usg=AFQjCNFft830iPOTPE52XCLl5xrLAb1kOg" data-wpel-link="external" href="https://maps.google.com/?q=4547+Bonnie+Branch+Road&entry=gmail&source=g" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="4547 Bonnie Branch Road">4547 Bonnie Branch Road</a> in Ellicott City as a result of a broken main on Monday, May 28 and was stopped around 8:30 p.m. that evening. Stream sampling is being planned for the Howard County area for today, May 29 and beyond as deemed necessary. For questions and general information regarding the circumstances surrounding the overflow, please contact the Howard County Bureau of Utilities at <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="tel:+1-410-313-4900" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" title="410-313-4900">410-313-4900</a>. </div>
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Waterway closing signs have been posted. The Department advises people coming in contact with the affected water to wash well with soap and warm water immediately. Clothing should also be washed. It is also prudent to keep family pets away from the impacted area. </div>
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The closing in Anne Arundel County will be for 30 days until June 28, 2018. For more information on the status of the closing, visit <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.aahealth.org&source=gmail&ust=1527707094399000&usg=AFQjCNFbOuMdOy-XCBavxzYW-Fxqj5Zw6w" data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://www.aahealth.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="AAHealth.org">www.aahealth.org</a> or call the Water Quality Line, <a data-wpel-link="internal" href="tel:+1-410-222-7999" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" title="410-222-7999">410-222-7999</a>.</div>
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Subscribers to the Department’s Recreational Water Quality Email Alerts <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.aahealth.org/alerts&source=gmail&ust=1527707094399000&usg=AFQjCNG1nd9NurEtlemq32fKW_w4nvSybw" data-wpel-link="internal" href="https://www.aahealth.org/alerts" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="AAHealth.org">www.aahealth.org/alerts</a> receive an email notifying them about waterway closings. Alerts can also be received via text messages by following the Department of Health on Twitter at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.twitter.com/aahealth_water&source=gmail&ust=1527707094399000&usg=AFQjCNE9_1QPthQYAaUvRD1_b-8OJ49k_g" data-wpel-link="external" href="http://www.twitter.com/aahealth_water" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #0e4d7a; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="twitter.com/aahealth_water">www.twitter.com/aahealth_water</a>.</div>
Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-58959146459698079522018-05-29T17:39:00.002-07:002018-05-29T17:39:37.448-07:00Another 650,000 gallons of RAW SEWAGE into Chesapeake Bay (no boaters involved).<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is truly a tragedy (especially the loss of life), but "poop" happens to flow into waterways all the time and it isn't the boaters doing it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/05/28/maryland-residents-storm-damage/</span><br />
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Patapsco Sewage Pumping Station, located at 4612 Annapolis Road in Halethorpe,
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<br />Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-52482172576341136942018-05-15T05:01:00.000-07:002018-05-15T05:01:22.019-07:00Annapolis & AA County to apply for NDZ<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 54px;"><a href="http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/government/ac-cn-discharge-zone-0513-story.html">No more No. 2: Annapolis, Anne Arundel push for no-discharge zone in rivers and creeks</a></span><br />
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">it’s for the greater good."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">I want to make people feel it is worthwhile"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Good luck with that 13% property tax increase, Mr. Mayor.</span>Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-30441899906433917292018-04-17T17:33:00.001-07:002018-04-17T17:33:12.772-07:00Only 4.1 MILLION GALLONS this time. Blame the boaters?Via The Baltimore Sun:<br />
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<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/environment/bs-md-ci-sewage-overflow-rain-20180417-story.html">Baltimore’s Department of Public Works says about 4.1 million gallons of a sewage and rainwater mix was released into the Jones Falls on Monday, as heavy rain inundated the sewer system.</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/environment/bs-md-ci-sewage-overflow-rain-20180417-story.html">The largest release was more than 3.7 million gallons in the area of the 400 block of E. Preston St.</a></div>
Kurt and Kristen Kolbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02003724161725137433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705428126084422790.post-64874621656932568842017-12-19T16:42:00.000-08:002017-12-19T16:42:26.768-08:00Was this survey written by a 5th grader or by someone with an agenda?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>In what Maryland County do you usually use the boat during the boating season?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b>In what Maryland river do you usually use the boat during the boating season?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There's no room or option to reply that I use my boat in quite a number of creeks, rivers, and counties. And what exactly is "boating season"? My boat is ready to go right now and I do stop by and perform some chores in winter. Are there any pump outs available in MD in the winter? There aren't any rest rooms available where I keep my boat so I'm just supposed to "hold it"?</span><br />
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