I see right down the road from us there has been a large sewage spill from a local pumping station. No communication from the county so I just wrote to the county executive and said we are less than a mile away from this area but we are all on wells and our own septic this side of the road.

I’m awaiting his reply, but I can’t see how 245,000 gallons of sewage isn’t going to make its way into the groundwater supply. If they won’t provide testing, I’ll get my own done. And if they have funked up our fresh water, I’m going to make sure this county is a bit poorer in the near future.

Luckily WBAL had a piece on their website from the Maryland Department of the Environment with facts of the event. I’m contacting the Public Works department also but I’m guessing they are all in ass covering mode by now.

It’s funny, they say signs around the stormwater pond have been posted. I’ve driven by it a half dozen times since and haven’t seen one, I guess they are down by the water. I’ll have to go find one later.

The county exec seems to have no problem doing a lot of publicity shots of events and people in the county. How about communicating to people in the area affected by an environmental issue affecting county residents?

I don’t see a health alert issued by the county as I’ve seen in some previous spills. I also wrote to the public works department, and I’ll post if they or the executive replies. As far as I’m concerned, the county has dropped the ball on this one.

I saw a health alert for a spill in Columbia earlier this year in May. Why none for this one? I’ve contacted the health department for the county about having my well tested. I’ll also get an independent one done to verify.

Below is the pond that is now off limits they say.