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Harbor WaterKeeper Alice Volpitta on Baltimore's water quality woes

Alice Volpitta is a water quality control and monitoring expert who has been Blue Water Baltimore's Harbor Waterkeeper since 2019. (photo credit Blue Water Baltimore)
Alice Volpitta is a water quality control and monitoring expert who has been Blue Water Baltimore's Harbor Waterkeeper since 2019. (photo credit Blue Water Baltimore)

Tom's next guest is Alice Volpitta, a water quality and monitoring scientist who has served since 2019 as Harbor Water Keeper for Blue Water Baltimore, the local not-for-profit clean water watchdog group.

She has an update on the status of the State’s oversight of Baltimore City's troubled wastewater treatment plants.

Alice Volpitta joins us on Zoom.

A view of the Baltimore's Back River wastewater treatment facility. (photo credit JaneThomas_UMdCES)
A view of the Baltimore's Back River wastewater treatment facility. (photo credit JaneThomas_UMdCES)

Audio will be posted here later this afternoon.

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