Baltimore Turns To $50 Million Labor Outsourcing Plan For Troubled Wastewater Plant

“Amid ‘long-term severe staffing shortages’ at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, Baltimore City officials approved more private contracting help … to run the plant’s day-to-day operations,” The Baltimore Sun reported. “The city’s spending board approved a new five-year, $50 million contract requested by the Baltimore Department of Public Works for a company to handle ‘biosolids management’ at the facility.”