"We collectively bring people from different parts of our agency together here at the command center so we can be proactive in responding to water main breaks throughout the city," said Cherod Hicks, an engineer at Baltimore City DPW. What causes water main breaks? Cold weather can harm wat...
August 10, 2022 / 1:44 PM EDT/ CBS Baltimore BALTIMORE -- The Baltimore City Department of Public Works has announced a logo design contest for a new campaign aimed at beautifying the city. The "Cleaner, Greener, Beautiful-Baltimore" campaign is a community engagement program the agen...
BALTIMORE -- A solid waste worker died on the job while collecting trash in West Baltimore Friday morning, according to the Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW).On Saturday, DPW announced that Timothy Cartwell, a waste collector assigned to the Reedbird Sanitation Yard, was ...
"We collectively bring people from different parts of our agency together here at the command center so we can be proactive in responding to water main breaks throughout the city," said Cherod Hicks, an engineer at Baltimore City DPW. How do you prevent water pipe breaks? When the temperatu...
Better Baltimore operations plan,” said Rob Taylor, Director of Grants and Community Development at The Recycling Partnership. “Through this unique collaboration of stakeholders engaged by the Recycling Partnership and the success of our collective efforts, we are helping Baltimore City...
Baltimore News Weather Sports Video On WJZ Watch CBS News Baltimore DPW's water and sewer rate hike approved by city's spending boardBaltimore DPW's water and sewer rate hike approved by city's spending boardJan 23, 2025 embed code copied ...
"It's every single place all across the city," Schleifer said. "On the weeks that recycling is not picked up, wind blows the recycling all over. It ends up in our waterways, it ends up in people's yards." Residents in Baltimore's Canton neighborhood told WJZ that r...
Before the rally, union president Dorothy Bryant said the union met with DPW's director to discuss a toxic environment as described by some employees and theBaltimore City's Inspector General's reportthat found "poor conditions" at several facilities. ...
BALTIMORE -- The family of Ronald Silver II, theBaltimore Department of Public Workssanitation worker who overheated and died on the job on August 2, is demanding answers from the city.On Monday, his family spoke outside of Baltimore City Hall, saying they still don't know wh...
The city has vowed to fix the problems. "None of us knows exactly what happened except for those who were there," said Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, the former president of the Baltimore City branch of the NAACP. "And that's one of the things that has to be done: We have to find out wh...