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Parole project again muddies creek

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 01/12/07


Church Creek has been sullied, once again, by runoff from the Annapolis Towne Centre construction site in Parole.

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Photo by Drew Koslow — For The Capital This picture taken Tuesday shows the outflow from the Annapolis Towne Centre construction site in Parole where it feeds Church Creek.
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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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