Silt slips by county

Last week's rain sent more sediment running off the bare earth of the Annapolis Town Center construction site in Parole - right out of a pipe county officials denied was the source of previous problems.

Photographs obtained by conservation watchdogs show muddy water coming out of the pipe that is supposed to filter debris.

County officials have said the pipe wasn't responsible for previously recorded blasts of turbidity, or soiled water, recorded by sensors placed in the adjoining stream.

But stream watchers have long been saying that the site is a source of sediment in Church Creek, that county inspectors must...