04 million contract for the rehabilitation of
sewer lines in the Ridgeleigh Community, also known as The Oaks, situated near Loch Raven Boulevard and Joppa Road.
Prior to October 2011, all
sewers - where the drains for two or more properties combine - laid before 1937 were the responsibility of the water companies by virtue of the Public Health Act 1936.
When combined
sewer systems were introduced in 1855, they were hailed as a vast improvement over urban cesspool ditches that ran along city streets and spilled over when it rained.
85 MG annually, which is no longer conveyed through MWRDGC interceptor
sewers or treated at its wastewater treatment plant.
But the court said that defense was unavailable, noting that the Sanitary Commission designed the
sewer to leak, neglected to repair cracks in the
sewer, and expected its small industrial customers.
bypass pumping into storm
sewers at some sites to prevent backups into homes;
Existing
sewers would be abandoned in place and capped or filled with a cement grout.
