Sanitation Overflow at Broening Highway Flooding Into Colgate Creek

UPDATE (6:23 p.m.) A leak Thursday afternoon from a damaged pipe in the area of the 2220 block of Broening Highway has caused an overflow of at least 20,000 gallons of sewage, which is spilling into Colgate Creek.

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works announced the overflow in a press release at 4:46 p.m. Crews remained on the scene, working to correct the problem as of early Thursday evening, said Robert Murrow, communications manager for the Bureau of Public Waste, Department of Public Works.

Murrow said either a valve problem or a blockage inside a pipe not far from a city pumping station is likely the cause of the problem.

“Crews are trying to reroute flow from the broken pipe, back to the pumping station, so they can see what the problem is and repair the pipe,” Murrow said.

The Maryland Department of the Environment and the Baltimore City 
Health Department have been notified about the incident.

For more information regarding
 health concerns because of sanitary overflows, contact the Health
Department at 410-396-4422.

“The Department of Public Works is undertaking a $1 billion 
rehabilitation of the City’s sanitary system that will protect our 
urban streams and the Chesapeake Bay while preventing future sewer overflows,” according to the a City Department of Public Works press statement.

Patch will update the story as more information becomes available.

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