Church Creek has been sullied, once again, by runoff from the Annapolis Towne Centre construction site in Parole.
This time contractors moving water from one sediment control pond to another failed to do so properly, effectively bypassing the cutting-edge systems meant to curtail such spoilage downstream.
The result: yet another load of choking silt injected into the headwaters of the creek that feeds into the South River.
The county was called to the site Tuesday and found that the contractor was not using a filter bag to catch sediment, and hadn't turned on the pump that adds a polymer to the water to help extract...
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