Baltimore to outsource staffing at troubled Back River wastewater plant in $50M deal

Nearly two years after state environmental regulators intervened in operations of Baltimore’s troubled Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant, city officials plan to outsource core parts of the facility’s operation to a private contractor. The $50 million agreement with the Colorado-based Operations Management International, Inc., was authorized by Department of Public Works officials on an emergency basis in September but wasn’t scheduled to go before the city’s spending board until Wednesday.