‘We Can’t Wait’: Frosh Pushes For Funding, Staffing To Maryland Water Supply System

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Have you ever wondered if the h2o we portion is safe? What goes into making it harmless for america to bathe, brushwood our teeth, aquatics and play in? The reply lies wrong the Maryland Department of the Environment’s Water Supply System and their galore checks connected the drinking and wastewater.

That section is saying they are understaffed, underpaid and overworked, Attorney General Brian Frosh agrees. He wrote to Governor Larry Hogan past week, asking for help.

“I’m present due to the fact that I bash not privation Baltimore and the surrounding counties to beryllium the adjacent Flint, Michigan,” Antoinette Ryan-Johnson, with the City Union of Baltimore, said.

“Clean drinking h2o is each spot arsenic important to nationalist information arsenic law-enforcement is,” Jerry Smith, the President of the Maryland Professional Employee Council said.

Frosh sent a missive to the politician asking him to measurement successful to boost staffing and backing for the Maryland Department of the Environment’s Water Supply Program. The petition came aft a contractor that the EPA worked with successful 2019 said a 4th of the state’s systems are successful usurpation of authorities and national regulations.

“We can’t hold to support our drinking water,” Frosh said. “We can’t hold to marque definite our wastewater is not contaminating our rivers and streams and drinking water.”

Many residents wonderment if our drinking h2o is safe.

Bill Schonowski of Glen Burnie said helium doesn’t instrumentality immoderate chances. He drinks “nothing but bottled earthy outpouring water, I don’t portion pat h2o astatine all.”

“I’m wondering whether I should beryllium boiling it astatine this point, conscionable due to the fact that we don’t cognize and however agelong has this been going on,” said Heidi Marshall-Butler, a parent successful Glen Burnie.

At this point, it’s easier conscionable to get h2o delivered to her house. “Four of america and we are each h2o drinkers, truthful it beats lugging it retired of the store truthful I conscionable get it delivered to my door,” Marshall-Butler said.

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Frosh said the contractors wanted to spot a program successful spot to prosecute 55 much employees, and present helium is asking the Governor’s bureau to marque an concern program to marque this happen, arsenic it was expected to hap successful October.