"Craig Bettenhausen is terrified every time it rains.
After a storm, the junior warden knows what might await him at North Baltimore’s Church of the Guardian Angel: a putrid stench and gray-brown bubbling waste coating the basement floors.
The church had three sewage backups since August, wreaking damage across the lower levels of a historic building that congregants turn to for peace. The mess halted operations in the building’s thrift shop, the profits from which help fund the church’s food pantry.
“It’s not acceptable for the city’s system to just dump sewage into the basements of homes and business and churches every time there’s a hard rain,” Bettenhausen said."
Talia Richman reports for the Baltimore Sun November 13, 2019.
Source: Baltimore Sun, 11/14/2019
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