Baltimore City Department of Public Works

The Department of Public Works is almost up to speed on its challenges with delayed trucks, staffing vacancies, and route changes.

We ask Richard Luna, interim head of Baltimore’s Department of Public Works, about his agency's work to address outdated water and sewage pipes, the federal consent decree and more.

“The earliest date we can resume weekly recycling for the entire city, would be at the end of February,” said Richard Luna, the interim director of the Department of Public Works.

With that settlement, the city will also enter into a consent decree that includes a timeline for repairs and upgrades at both the Patapsco and Back River wastewater treatment facilities.

The parasite was detected in the lowest levels that tests can register.

This massive bill has accrued because, while the housing authority has been paying some of its water bill to the city it has not been paying them in full, staff from both the housing authority and the Department of Public Works told the inspector general’s office.

The Baltimore City Fire Department ruled that the explosion was “accidental.”

In order to have weekly recycling by the first quarter of 2024, officials from the Department of Public Works say they will need 20 new crews and 30 new garbage trucks.

Under the state program requirements, the Baltimore City Department of Public Works is required to allocate payments as bill credits to customer accounts while also waiving late fees and interest penalties.

In the last decade, four workers have died at city worksites.