A troublesome private sewer line in Woodberry has once again leaked tens of thousands of gallons of human waste into the Jones Falls, after a temporary fix installed by the city a year ago stopped working for the last week.
The leak, announced in October 2017 by the Department of Public Works to have been happening inside a secret pipe within a much larger city storm drain, had been stopped for the better part of the last 12 months, after city crews installed a pump to bypass the sewage into a city sewer line nearby. But the pump stopped working on Oct. 17.
And over the last seven days, it leaked out two gallons of sewage per minute, or roughly 20,000 gallons in all, before crews fixed the pump.
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