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Water restrictions in place for all WSSC customers after break in Chevy Chase
After a break in a 54-inch water transmission main in Chevy Chase Monday night, WSSC officials this morning placed a mandatory restriction on water use that affects all customers — residential and businesses — in Prince George's and Montgomery...Tags: Chevy Chase
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Clean water requires everyone's help
I am writing in response to Sen. E.J. Pipkin's letter to the editor in which he called me the state's land planning czar ("O'Malley is waging war on rural Maryland," Feb. 26). The senator may think such name-calling and his "war on rural Maryland"...
Tags: Judges, Justice System, Laws, Labor Legislation, Agriculture
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More illnesses reported at Hopkins at Keswick
At least 12 people with symptoms of illness were reported at Johns Hopkins at Keswick in North Baltimore on Monday, almost a week after nearly two dozen people fell ill from a contaminated water source at the hospital and university system's...
Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Water, Symptoms, Dizziness, Hospitals and Clinics
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Health officials tracing source of chemicals that sickened Hopkins workers
Health officials continue to investigate how contaminated hot water sickened nearly two dozen people at the Johns Hopkins at Keswick complex Monday, but the case is similar to previous ones involving faulty water-heating systems that let chemicals mix...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Blood Disorders, High Blood Pressure, Employees, Water
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Catherine R. Kane, government administrator
Catherine R. Kane, a Harford County government administrator who earlier had worked for the Baltimore County Department of Social Services, died Feb. 12 from colon cancer at her Bel Air home. She was 65.
"She really was an important part of Social...Tags: Harford County, William Donald Schaefer, New London (New London, Connecticut), Connecticut College, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Baltimore reshaping approach to aging water lines
Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the past year by a series of extremely public problems: widespread billing errors that required millions in refunds, massive water main breaks that closed downtown streets, and a collapsed stormwater culvert...
Tags: Environmental Cleanup, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Class Conflict, Consumers, Environmental Pollution
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Susquehanna's health largely improved, though microbial threat increases, report concludes
Microbial pollutants are increasing as a problem in the watershed of the Susquehanna River, but other measures of river health have shown improvement over the past two years, according to latest "State of the Susquehanna" report released this week. The...Tags: Rivers, Harford County, Water, Bodies of Water, Cecil County
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Lawmakers seek steeper fines for sewage spills
Lawmakers and representatives of Maryland's county and municipal governments sparred Tuesday over a pair of bills in Annapolis that would raise the fines for sewage spills which annually dump millions of gallons of untreated waste into local waters and...
Tags: Harford County, Local Government, Wildlife, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Environmental Pollution
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Harford to sell nearly $117 million in bonds on Feb. 19
Harford County officials are preparing to sell $116.9 in bonds on Feb. 19. The bond issues cover $40 million that is being borrowed for various capital improvement projects and $76.9 million to refinance two previous bond issues from 2005 and 2007,...Tags: Credit Ratings, Harford County, Automotive Equipment, Minor League Baseball, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland)
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Dissecting Bel Air, sustainability plan looks to town's future
What will the Town of Bel Air be like in five years? Or in 10 years? A comprehensive plan adopted by the Board of Town Commissioners at the Jan. 22 town meeting tries to answer these questions by looking at where the town is today, how it is perceived...
Tags: Energy Resources, Harford County, Local Government, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Marketing
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Thomas M. Wirth named vice president at Geo-Technology Associates
Professional engineer Thomas M. Wirth has been promoted to vice president of Geo-Technology Associates Inc., a mid-Atlantic geotechnical engineering and environmental consulting firm. With 12 years of professional experience, Wirth specializes in...Tags: Consultancy Service, Harford County, Science, Hunt Valley, Engineering
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Aberdeen wise to keep ahead of the curve on sewage treatment issues [Editorial]
It's a matter no one gives a, well let's say hoot, about until there's a problem. When there is a problem with it, everyone affected will be angry enough to call city hall and give the poor soul who answers a blast of, let's just call it hot air. The...Tags: Plant Openings, Waste
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