coli contamination placing hundreds under a boil water alert. This is just weeks after DPW’s leadership was under scrutiny regarding communication in a hearing surrounding how the city informed residents concerning the E.

The city never responded to the inquiry with no one made available for comment. What happens to those who haven’t paid? And how does the city not go after people who have thousands of dollars of outstanding water bills? We asked the city questions that include the amount of delinquent water bills there are. Records showed Baltimore Freedom Academy owed more than $40,000.įallstaff Elementary and Middle owe more than $73,000. WMAR-2 News found numerous similar outstanding bills throughout the city like Lyric Opera House with more than 30,000 owed. “I pay 100, $200 every month on my water bill and I’m not washing clothes, and I don’t have cars anything, but it looks like the water bill not going down,” said Dabney. Meanwhile for residents like Alice Dabney, their bill isn't going down. It did not have processes in place to collect delinquent accounts and DPW could not show how much they billed customers during the fiscal period. In a board of estimates meeting in February, in an assessment of the DPW’s water billing risks, auditors found in 20 the City did not take proactive measures to increase water revenue collections. RELATED: Gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore owed over $20,000 in Baltimore water bills “The Moores paid the bill as soon as they became aware of it out of an abundance of caution while they review the accuracy of the charges.'

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