When Chesapeake Bay oysters and other shellfish become contaminated with sewage or other pollution, Maryland environmental officials normally alert the public before any are harvested or eaten.... But that didn’t happen after a recent sewage spill in Southern Maryland — and at least two dozen people became ill.Wp Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight A surging tide that set records around the bay overwhelmed the sewage system along a narrow island in St.... Mary’s County, causin

The MDE, the town and the developer, Vienna-based Rocks Engineering, have repeatedly denied the accusation. This Maryland town needed growth to survive.... Nearly 20 years later, some say development could kill it. Last spring, however, the agency greenlighted the developer’s plans to hook up 120 new homes to the town’s antiquated wastewater treatment plant.... Mary’s County.In August, Blue Water Baltimore, a nonprofit behind the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper, reported that it found high amount