Downstream from Baltimore, life, tragedy and trash just keep washing up

Luke McFadden, the TikTok-famous waterman from Pasadena, easily lists some of the things he’s seen floating out of Baltimore while out on his workboat, the Southern Girl. “Styrofoam, dude… I mean, anything you can possibly think of. Just miscellaneous junk. Plastics like you wouldn’t believe.” Now debris from the Key Bridge collapse is washing up where the Patapsco River — that wide water highway to the city’s normally busy port — meets Chesapeake Bay. Even if McFadden hasn’t seen it yet, others have. (Photo Credit: Rick Hutzell)