The City of Aberdeen lies about half an hour north of Baltimore. Founded in 1892, the wastewater system is a patchwork of upgrades subject to vicious bouts of inflow and infiltration (I&I).Encouraging buy-in from the city’s administration and citizens about the need for action, the Department of Public Works has embarked on an aggressive plan to rehabilitate the system. In a little more than three years, the system has turned the corner.With a four-person maintenance crew and the help of outside consultants, the sewer system has been mapped with GIS coordinates, hydraulic modeling has been completed, and every manhole in
