With last week’s explosion of a Veolia North America-managed steam pipe line near Camden Yards still ringing in the ears of some residents and baseball fans, city officials want you to know that they averted a possibly worse infrastructure failure three miles distant.
Ground zero of what Public Works Director Rudy Chow is describing as a “potentially disastrous water main break” is now covered by asphalt on Desoto Road as it passes under Interstate-95 southbound.
Last month, the agency realized that something was wrong with a 16-foot segment of the Southwest Transmission Main that runs beneath the street and carries fresh water for southwest Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and portions of Anne Arundel and Howard counties.
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