Lawrence Edward Farinetti Sr., a retired steelworker who was a Back River advocate, died at a local hospital Aug. 23 from complications of lung cancer. He was 77.
FREE to read: Karen Wolf’s family has owned a house on Baltimore’s Back River since the 1920s. Lately, though, Wolf has been questioning whether it’s safe to let her grandchildren
Baltimore County has approved a contract to spray a larvicide onto the Back River to suppress the midge population near a wastewater treatment plant operated by Baltimore City.
In the two months since Maryland filed suit against Baltimore City over sewage treatment failures at its two wastewater plants, problems have worsened at the Back River site prompting state environmental officials to issue an order demanding the facility be brought into compliance within 48 hours.