The city’s Patapsco treatment plant can’t accept any more county sewage, resulting in a development cut-off affecting northwestern Anne Arundel.

Setting conditions to be met for closure, the Scott-appointed panel paves the way for Seawall Development to acquire the city-owned property.

Residents cite mistrust of BPD and the technology’s use elsewhere to assist ICE. But a majority of the Board of Estimates, including Mayor Scott, vote to approve the $1.46 million contract.

With the Falls Road gate left open, private haulers have been dumping clandestinely at night and Baltimore city trucks have been dumping there, too. How this could go on for months remains “a mystery.”