With a pair of Maryland state agencies coming to the rescue, the sewer moratorium in part of Baltimore’s suburbs has been lifted after just a few months.
Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman on June 3 announced an immediate end to the ban on new sewer connections in the northwestern portion of the county, which had threatened to stifle development there for years to come.
Wastewater from that area travels through a sewer line maintained by neighboring Baltimore County before being treated at the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant in south Baltimore city…