Baltimore to pay $3.9 million to help clean up pollution from dump site
Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com, August 18, 2017
By: Luke Broadwater
Baltimore officials agreed this week to pay $3.9 million to help clean up hazardous pollution from a dump site in East Baltimore.
The Board of Estimates, which is controlled by Mayor Catherine Pugh, voted Wednesday to enter into a consent decree with the federal government and state of Maryland to deal with pollution at the 68th Street Dump site.
The consent decree states that the city could be required to spend more money in future years.
The Environmental Protection Agency notified Baltimore officials in 1999 and 2014 that the city had “potential liability” to clean up the site, which consists of seven landfills that cover 239 acres crossing the city-Baltimore County line from East Baltimore into Rosedale. Much of the site is in Baltimore County, but 18 acres are within city limits.
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