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Environmental Stewardship at the Port of Baltimore BY NANCY MENEFEE JACKSON
Fairfield Marine Terminal Environment Gets Boost with New Storm-Water Treatment System
To meet the environmental requirements of treating any newly installed impervious surfaces, the Maryland Port Administration (MPA) installed a new, state-of-the-art storm-water treatment system earlier this fall as part of the redevelopment of the Fairfield Marine Terminal.
Known as the Jellyfish®, the compact system uses underground filtering technology to treat storm water for nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and sediment, trash and metals before the storm water is discharged into the Patapsco River.
A section of the marine terminal was newly