“It’s not that the job has become harder. It is that it has become impossible,” the lawyer representing the watchdog agency tells Judge Pamela White.

The Scott administration’s efforts to limit OIG investigations into waste, fraud and abuse, he says, are legally untenable and detrimental to good government.

The pipe break or leak, down the hill from Tudor Arms Avenue near the Wyman Park Apartments, is sending the substance into a tributary of the Jones Falls.

Belair-Edison residents sent emails, made 311 complaints and watched as violations and fines piled up, but still the garbage remained. Finally, they gave up on city government and took matters into their own hands.