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Maryland and Baltimore City officials are holding “deliberative conversations” about whether state staffers can remain at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant beyond the expiration of an agreement forged earlier this year, after the state took over the facility due to pollution.

Maryland and Baltimore City officials are holding “deliberative conversations” about whether state staffers can remain at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant beyond the expiration of an agreement forged earlier this year, after the state took over the facility due to pollution.

Lawrence Edward Farinetti Sr., a retired steelworker who was a Back River advocate, died at a local hospital Aug. 23 from complications of lung cancer. He was 77.

FREE to read: Karen Wolf’s family has owned a house on Baltimore’s Back River since the 1920s. Lately, though, Wolf has been questioning whether it’s safe to let her grandchildren

Baltimore County has approved a contract to spray a larvicide onto the Back River to suppress the midge population near a wastewater treatment plant operated by Baltimore City.

A material that looks like feces was found near a discharge pipe at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, but the state says it's not raw sewage.

In the two months since Maryland filed suit against Baltimore City over sewage treatment failures at its two wastewater plants, problems have worsened at the Back River site — prompting state environmental officials to issue an order demanding the facility be brought into compliance within 48 hours.

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