Garbage and hazardous household waste don’t belong beside the Jones Falls “in a FEMA flood zone,” the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper says.

Baltimore City water customers are also encouraged to use DPW’s Self-Service Water Bill Portal to track real-time usage and manage bills more effectively.

Voluntary water restrictions issued in May across parts of the Baltimore area have since been lifted, the Baltimore City Department of Public Works announced Monday.

Under the agency’s most recent rate hikes adopted in January 2025, Baltimore City water bills will increase by 9%, sewer bills by 9% and stormwater bills by 3% effective July 1.

A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit challenging Baltimore's tax sale system to move forward, ruling Monday that homeowners may have been denied fair compensation when their properties were taken ...