Working toward fishing and swimming in the Inner Harbor

The 57th Mayor of Baltimore - Stephanie Rawlings Blake – has announced a plan to clean up Baltimore's Inner Harbor area so that it is swim-able and fish-able by 2020. Other cities, most notably Boston, have already completed just such a goal.

The mayor along with business leaders and neighborhood activists plan to purchase more nets to catch trash discarded in the Inner Harbor area; they plan to build infrastructure that will prevent storm water runoff from entering the bay loaded with harmful nutrients; and also to make major investments in sewage pipes to prevent further spills into the Patapsco River and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay.