Amid worsening odor from the Back River plant, reports that sewage sludge has been backing up again

Community members are concerned biosolids are being stored on the ground and washing into the river; documents show the plant stopped processing the material onsite months ago

Longtime complaints about foul odors emanating from the Back River sewage treatment plant have intensified in recent months, with area residents declaring they’re the worst they’ve experienced in years.

“It goes from [rotten] eggs to poop to methane,” a woman protested at a raucous community meeting in Dundalk last September with a representative from the Baltimore Department of Public Works (DPW), which runs the plant…

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