A deluge of rainstorms Thursday night into Friday morning washed 14,000 gallons of sewage into the Jones Falls, city officials said Friday.
The stormwater inundated the sewer system and sent wastewater overflowing from a pipe near North Charles and West Lanvale streets. The pipe was designed to dump into the waterway to relieve pressure in the century-old system.
More than 2.5 inches of rain fell at the Inner Harbor from 3 p.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
The pipe is one of two that remains open over the Jones Falls, though the city is required to close them by 2021 under a court-ordered agreement reached with federal and state environmental regulators last month.
The agreement requires the city to notify the public when such sewage overflows occur.
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