City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0218R

• File #: 10-0218R
• Version: 0
• Name: In Support of DPW’s Water Management Authority
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 7/12/2010
• In control: City Council
• Title: In Support of DPW’s Water Management Authority FOR the purpose of supporting the continued management of the region’s water system by the Department of Public Works; and urging DPW to further strengthen its existing communications mechanisms and ties with neighboring jurisdictions in order to ensure the smooth creation and implementation of infrastructure improvement plans.
• Sponsors: President Young, Warren Branch, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, William H. Cole, IV, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Resolution, Water

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/15/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
7/12/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
7/12/2010	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Young

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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In Support of DPW’s Water Management Authority

FOR the purpose of supporting the continued management of the region’s water system by the Department of Public Works; and urging DPW to further strengthen its existing communications mechanisms and ties with neighboring jurisdictions in order to ensure the smooth creation and implementation of infrastructure improvement plans.
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Recitals

Baltimore City has owned and operated its own water system since 1854. For nearly 90 years the City’s Department of Public Works has also been responsible for the supply of drinking water to the greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area beyond the City’s borders. Today, DPW’s Bureau of Water & Wastewater’s 1,700 employees ensure that high quality drinking water is supplied to 1.8 million people throughout the region.

Many of the 3,400 miles of water mains operated by DPW are nearly 100 years old. Pipes that old have generally far exceeded their designed life expectancy and they have therefore begun to fail in increasing numbers. The resulting disruptions to water supplies in the City and beyond have made it apparent to all parties that the region’s water infrastructure requires a systematic upgrade.

Acknowledging this fact, DPW has developed - and begun to implement - short, medium, and long term plans to modernize the region’s...