볼티모어 공공사업부(DPW, Department of Public Works)에 의해 지난 1월 7일 목요일 오후 하수의 범람을 포함하는 유지 근로자가 전환되었다. DPW는 하수 범람의 위생 문제에 대한 프로그램을 지속적으로 진행중이며, 이는 Eagle Drive의 1900 블록 근처에 위치한 Gwynns Falls 지류로 실행 중이다.

 

유틸리티 정비과의 감독자인 Ronald McNair은 규제팀을 구성해 배수조를 발굴하기 위한 폐수 줄기를 추적했다. 지면 구덩이에서의 범람은 다음 하류의 맨홀에서 다시 하수의 중앙으로 표출된다.

 

 

 

Quick action by Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) maintenance workers diverted and contained a sewage overflow in a heavily wooded portion of Leakin Park the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 7. DPW responded to an ongoing sanitary sewer overflow (SSO), which was running into the Dead Run, a tributary of the Gwynns Falls, near the 1900 block of Eagle Drive.

 

A Utility Maintenance Division supervisor, Ronald McNair, directed his crew to dig a sump pit where the wastewater stream was collected. The overflow from this pit was then channeled above ground to the next downstream manhole and back into the sewer main.

 

These actions resulted in the spill being limited to less than 9,000 gallons entering the Dead Run. On Friday, DPW found two line collapses and permanent repairs are scheduled for early next week.

 

The stream has been posted with warning signs, and the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Baltimore City Health Department have been notified.

For more information about health concerns as a result of sewer overflows please go to: http://health.baltimorecity.gov/sanitary-sewer-overflows-sso.
 
Citizens are encouraged to avoid contact with urban streams due to possible pollution.

 

Baltimore City is in the construction phase of the $1 billion Consent Decree rehabilitation of our sewer infrastructure.

 

[출처 = Water World / 2016년 1월 8일]