On a gray, drizzly morning in March 2016, two inspectors from the Maryland Department of the Environment showed up unannounced at Baltimore Scrap Corp., a sprawling metal recycling facility located just south of the Harbor Tunnel Throughway.
In a report written later, the inspectors described their visit as a routine check of the junkyard’s stormwater pollution controls. It was anything but routine, though.
Following up on a tip from an environmental group, they ultimately wrote up the company for 11 violations after seeing sediment, oil and possibly other contaminants washing off the cluttered, debris-strewn site into city storm drains that eventually reach the Patapsco River just south of Fort McHenry.
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