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The Army is moving forward with converting an old building on the Aberdeen Proving Ground into a water source to provide 3 million gallons of water daily, Aberdeen city manager Doug Miller said.

Maryland officials say they are investigating groundwater contamination in the Severn area that has put eight homes on bottled water, apparently as a result of toxic waste dumping decades ago at a nearby factory.

Spring has arrived just in time to help celebrate Prettyboy Reservoir Day this Saturday, April 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

With Havre de Grace's election just around the corner, on May 7, voters will get the chance to cast their vote for one of two mayoral candidates and three of five candidates running for city council.

A bankruptcy filing by Synagro Technologies Inc. on Wednesday means growth and new jobs for the Baltimore area as the waste recycler consolidates, making its sole headquarters in White Marsh.

Preliminary designs for Maple Lawn South show an apartment complex in the area of the water tower, a collection of townhouses through the middle of the property and single family homes abutting the homes on Murphy Road.

Beginning Monday morning, April 22, the Maryland State Highway Administration said it will temporarily close Loflin Road at Route 7 (Old Philadelphia Road) near Aberdeen to relocate a Harford County water line under Route 7, a project that will take several months.

Baltimore County Public Works announced Thursday that work will begin on or around Monday, April 15 to replace 2,700 feet of water lines on York Road in Towson between the Beltway and Washington Avenue.

Aberdeen residents could see some increases in their bills for 2014, although property taxes will probably stay the same, city manager Doug Miller told the city council during a Monday work session.

In Councilman David Marks' recent newsletter, he presented "facts" regarding Baltimore County's proposal to levy a storm water fee on properties throughout the county. However, he failed to provide any context.

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 counties.

Septics law is about clean water, not about hurting rural counties

More employees with symptoms of illness were reported at Johns Hopkins at Keswick in North Baltimore on Monday afternoon, almost a week after nearly two dozen people fell ill from a contaminated water source at the hospital and university system's administrative complex.

Health officials haven't determined how hot water became contaminated at the Johns Hopkins at Keswick complex Monday, sickening nearly two dozen people. But one acknowledged that the case may be similar to past cases involving faulty water-heating systems that let chemicals mix into potable water.

Catherine R. Kane, a Harford County administrator who earlier worked for Baltimore County Department of Social Services, died Feb. 12 of colon cancer at her Bel Air home. She was 65.

Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the last year by a series of extremely public problems. But behind the scenes, they have also been making progress on the city's aged and long-deteriorating water system.

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,

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 the Chesapeake Bay.

Harford County officials are preparing to sell $116.9 in bonds on Feb. 19.

What will the Town of Bel Air be like five years from now? Ten years from now? A comprehensive plan adopted by the Board of Town Commissioners at the Jan. 22 town meeting attempts to answer these questions by looking at where the town is today, how it is perceived by residents and at where it wants to go in the future.

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.

The foresighted purchase helps keep Aberdeen number one when it comes to dealing with number two.

Quick thinking by custodian saves boy.

Aberdeen will soon be just the second jurisdiction on the East Coast to install special pipe-bursting equipment to line its sanitary sewers, Public Works Director Matt Lapinsky said Monday.

County executive right to veto septic bill but preserving Howard County farmland should not require such political machinations

Alexander Kinyua, an electrical engineering student at Morgan State University, was charged with the first-degree murder of his roommate 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Kinyua allegedly hadn't just killed the man, but also had eaten his heart and portions of his brain.

BGE officials continued to investigate what caused high-voltage lines to go down outside the city of Annapolis, putting on a light show Thursday night before plunging more than 55,000 customers into darkness.

About 70,000 homes and businesses in Annapolis and other nearby parts of Anne Arundel County lost power Thursday night after a disruption to two main lines servicing the area, according to a BGE spokesman.

Harford County Government plans to build a 25,388-square-foot water and sewer office building on the 32.5-acre Abingdon Water Treatment Plant property, and the site plan was reviewed by the county's Development Advisory Committee last Wednesday morning.

Report by the Environmental Integrity Project finds significant gaps persist in Maryland and the other bay watershed states in enforcement of municipal and industrial water pollution, including lax permitting and infrequent inspections. The group warns the states' shortcomings in oversight of such discharges undermine the progress being made in restoring the Chesapeake.

A city public works employee pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing more than $30,000 from the city agency through "excessive overtime and compensatory hours," according to the city.

Baltimore work crews have located and removed the old pipe that ruptured Monday and sent water cascading through several downtown streets. By 9 a.m. Tuesday, a new 30-inch main had been installed, and repairs were completed Tuesday night.

Fractures join list of several this month in Baltimore City.

A 16-inch-wide, city-owned water main broke beneath Philadelphia Road in Essex on Monday morning, leaving the Franklin Square hospital, CCBC-Essex, 60 homes and about 15 businesses without water or regular water pressure through the afternoon.

Water infrastructure becomes a priority

After another city water main break caused fast-moving water to rush down Charles Street, officials defended plans to spend millions to upgrade the Baltimore's aging public water system.

University of Maryland study finds "superbug" methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in US wastewater treatment plants, suggesting plant workers at risk for infections.

Restoration of Roland Water Tower began with an environmental cleanup of the tower at West University Parkway and Roland Avenue on Oct. 31

Residents in the Western Maryland mountains are used to snow — they had nearly 300 inches in 2010 — but Sandy was different. Folks who have lived here all their lives say they've never seen a storm like this.

Dr. H. Berton McCauley, the former chief of the Dental Division of the Baltimore City Health Department who led the controversial battle that resulted in the city's water supply being fluoridated nearly 60 years ago, died Oct. 23.

Ballot questions for the upcoming presidential election, specifically the ones dealing with same-sex marriage and county charter amendments, brought out some opinions at Havre de Grace's council meeting Monday.

The consequences of Baltimore's implementation of the federal water safety requirement will ripple throughout the city's neighborhoods.

A final decision on whether to give The Community Fire Company of Perryville a total of $105,000 for its career services program has been delayed at least one more month.

Md. should not permit fracking without greater scientific scrutiny

The rain this past weekend finally lifted Harford County, along with the rest of central Maryland, out of a drought watch but the area remains pretty dry, as some observers have noticed.

Thanks to a county funded program, western county fire fighters are finally getting a reliable water source in the form of over one hundred 30,000 gallon underground fire suppression water tanks.

Candidate Bongino says a responsible federal budget must precede further spending