Patapsco River

Baltimore County utility crews dealt with yet another sewage spill at the Patapsco Sewage Pumping Station in Baltimore Highlands. About 525,000 gallons of sewage spilled from a 54-inch concrete pipe Saturday into the lower Patapsco River. The county spent $500,000 to replace aging pipes earlier this month after a main conduit ruptured in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene and poured about 100 million gallons of raw sewage into the river over the course of a week. Crews discovered a joint failure in the new piping last week and the overflow occurred during the ensuing repair for a few hours early Saturday morning.

Even mild flooding in Ellicott City gives anyone who lived through Hurricane Agnes the shivers. I went looking for Hurricane Agnes stories in the Sun's archvies and found this. The editor's note is from 2007, mabye from 35th anniversary coverage of the storm. I can only guess at the mixed feelings of the reporter who heard Omar Jones utter that opening quote. (Editor's note: On June 21-22, 1972, Tropical Storm Agnes destroyed much of historic Ellicott City and areas of Elkridge.

A body was pulled from the Patapsco River near Harbor Hospital Wednesday afternoon, fire officials confirmed. Fire officials could not immediately provide details but said that a call was received around noon from the hospital reporting a body in the water. A fire rescue boat, an engine company and an EMS unit investigated and found a body near the hospital. It was unclear if the body was related to reports Sunday that someone had jumped from the Hanover Street bridge. Justin.fenton@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Quick response by high school friends and a nearby kayaker likely saved the life of a 16-year-old Carrollton teen who was pulled from the swollen Patapsco River during the heavy rains of Sept. 7 at the village of Patapsco near Finksburg. Three teens - David Rugemer, Tyler Hartman and Abraham Ramos - had been floating on the river, but at the confluence of the Patapsco and Aspen Run, the current became intense. All three swimmers were pulled toward the south bridge across the river.

A pipeline carrying raw sewage from a western Baltimore County pumping station to a treatment plant in the city has spilled more than 70 million gallons into the Patapsco River since it ruptured over the weekend. The county said the breach, reported late Sunday, would be repaired by Friday at a cost of about $250,000. A neighbor of the Patapsco Pumping Station on Old Annapolis Road in Baltimore Highlands reported the spill soon after it occurred, officials said. Baltimore County hired Spiniello Companies, Inc., a concrete contractor, to replace the 54-inch concrete pipe and another smaller pipe was found to be damaged.

Baltimore County firefighters battled a one-alarm fire Monday morning in a vacant building at the shuttered Fort Howard Hospital in Edgemere. The fire did extensive damage to the first floor lobby of the six-story brick building at the former military hospital along the Patapsco River. No other buildings at the site on North Point Road were damaged and no firefighters were injured. mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com

An article in the July 17, 1936, edition of The Catonsville Herald and Baltimore Countian discouraged businesses from displaying their wares on the sidewalk. Arthur Shipley of Monumental Avenue, Lansdowne, died last Saturday, July 11, at St. Agnes' Hospital, due to injuries sustained when he was overcome by the heat and fell from a twenty-foot ladder striking, his head against a sign on the pavement at Peter's Garage, Frederick Avenue, Catonsville, where he was painting.

A woman's body was found Saturday morning in the Patapsco River in Baltimore County, police said, but the death is not being investigated as a crime. Baltimore County Police Cpl. John Wachter said police were called at 9:46 in the morning by someone who found the body near River Road in the Avalon section at the southern end of Patapsco Valley State Park. He said the medical examiner will have to determine the cause of death, but he said neither the homicide nor criminal investigations divisions were involved in the case.

Baltimore City fire crews pulled a man's body from the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River in south Baltimore Friday evening, a spokesman confirmed. A fire department rescue boat was dispatched around 6 p.m. after several 911 calls reported a body floating in the about 100 yards west the Hanover Street Bridge, near the Baltimore Rowing Club, said fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright. Crews pulled the body of an unconscious, unresponsive man from the water and he was pronounced dead, Cartwright said.

Set squarely between the nation's capital and Baltimore, Howard County is a well-blended mix of the bucolic, the urban and the suburban. Spread out over 160,640 acres are sights as diverse as a quaint historic district in Ellicott City, high-tech research parks, a mall with more than 200 stores, rivers and forests in two state parks, a lakefront city center, horse farms and fields dotted with sheep and cattle, an antiques and art center at...