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Home CLA NewsBlue Water Baltimore and Chesapeake Legal Alliance Issue Statement on Explosion and Fire at Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant
Blue Water Baltimore and Chesapeake Legal Alliance Issue Statement on Explosion and Fire at Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant
Firefighters are on the scene of an explosion and fire in a sludge handling building at the Back River Wasterwater Treatment Plant. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

Blue Water Baltimore and Chesapeake Legal Alliance Issue Statement on Explosion and Fire at Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant

Mar 15, 2023 | CLA News, CLA Publications, Press Release, Top News |

On March 15, 2023, an explosion and fire broke out at the state of Maryland’s largest Wastewater treatment plant located in Baltimore County. CLA hopes early reports that no one was injured in today’s explosion at Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant prove true, and that the plant is able to resume all of its operations as soon as safely possible. Chesapeake Legal Alliance and our client, Blue Water Baltimore, have been raising alarms for nearly two years about conditions at the Back River and Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plants, which pose a threat not only to the environment and to nearby residents, but to the workers at the plants as well. We have been working for many months with the State of Maryland to enforce state and federal laws at the Back River and Patapsco Waste Water Treatment plants. Read our statement below:

 

Client: Blue Water Baltimore / Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper
Services: Litigation
Issues: Bay Cleanup + Government Transparency Environmental Justice Public Health Municipal and Industrial Waste Water
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