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I-TEAM REPORTER DEBORAH WEINER
HAS TONIGHT'S REPORT.
REPORTER: THIS MONTH, NOTICES GO
OUT TO BALTIMORE CITY RESIDENTS
WHOSE HOMES COULD GO TO TAX SALE
FOR A DELINQUENT WATER BILL.
IT IS A VERY REAL PROBLEM AND
PRO-BONO ATTORNEYS WORKING WITH
THE MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS SAY
THEIR CLIENTS ARE AT THE
BREAKING POINT.
FOR BALTIMORE HOMEOWNER JAMES
MCALLISTER, THE FIVE MONTHS HE
LIVED WITHOUT RUNNING WATER
BECAME TURBULENT AND DESPERATE
TIMES.
>> IT KIND OF DEPRIVES YOU OF
SOME LEVEL OF ORDER AND
STRUCTURE IN YOUR LIFE.
REPORTER: TWO YEARS AGO, WITH
HIS WATER NOT FLOWING, HE
BROUGHT IN BOTTLED WATER TO HELP
HIM CLEAN, COOK, AND BATHE, SO
HE COULD GO TO WORK AT A BAKERY.
>> THIS IS THE MOST RECENT BILL.
REPORTER: STARING DOWN HIS
LATEST BILL, WHICH IS STAGGERING
AT MORE THAN $6,000 BECAUSE OF
SUBSTANTIALLY, -- SUBSTATIAL
LEAK, HE WORRIES HE MAY
HE HASN'T PAID A WATER BILL
SINCE LAST MARCH.
LAST YEAR, THE BALTIMORE
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS SHUT
OFF WATER SERVICE TO ABOUT 1400
ACCOUNTS, 8000 THE YEAR BEFORE.
WHILE CITY OFFICIALS SAY MANY OF
THE PROPERTIES WERE VACANT, IF
YOUR BILL FALLS BEHIND $250 FOR
TWO CONSECUTIVE BILLING PERIODS,
YOU CAN BE ELIGIBLE FOR SHUT OFF
TOO.
>> THEY BECOME DELINQUENT.
THEY FACE WATER SHUT OFF.
THEY ALSO FACE THE RISK OF
LOSING THEIR HOUSE IN A TAX
SALE, WHICH CAN HAVE BEEN OVER A
DELINQUENT WATER BILL.
REPORTER: A RECENT REPORT FROM
THE ABELL FOUNDATION FOUND IN
BALTIMORE, THE POOREST CUSTOMERS
PAY THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF
THEIR INCOMES FOR WATER AND
SEWER SERVICE.
ADDING, THIS IS A NATIONAL
CRISIS, AND BALTIMORE IS NOT
ALONE.
HERE, INFRASTRUCTURE, CRUMBLING
BEFORE OUR EYES, AND AN ESTIMATE
OF AT LEAST $2 BILLION TO
MODERNIZE IT, IS THE REASON
BEHIND A COMBINED 31% RATE HIKE
OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD.
>> THINGS DID GET AWAY FROM US.
WE PUT LOW-COST, INEXPENSIVE
WATER SERVICE AHEAD OF THE NEEDS
OF PEOPLE AND INVESTED THE
INFRASTRUCTURE.
HERE WE ARE.
REPORTER: BUT DPW IS ALSO PAYING
THE BILLS.
IN 2015, THE CITY PROVIDED
NEARLY $1 MILLION TO ABOUT 5100
CUSTOMERS WHO NEEDED HELP.
>> WATER IS LIKE ANY OTHER
UTILITY.
IT'S NOT LIKE A CABLE BILL OR
PHONE BILL.
EVEN ELECTRICITY, TO A CERTAIN
EXTENT.
WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT WATER.
REPORTER: DELEGATE MARY
WASHINGTON IS THE LEAD SPONSOR
OF A TRIO OF BILLS IN ANNAPOLIS
THAT SEEK TO CURB SHUT-OFFS AND
TAX SALES, WHILE ADJUSTING WATER
BILLS DOWN TO THE LEVEL
LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS CAN PAY.
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
TELLS US THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING
TO HELP JAMES MCALLISTER SINCE
2014 AND HE WOULD QUALIFY FOR A
SUBSIDIZED PROGRAM TO HELP FIX
HIS WATER LEAK.
AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS, BECAUSE HE
SAYS HE DOESN'T PRAY FOR RAIN HE
, HE PRAYS FOR WATER.
DPW ALSO ACCEPTED JAMES
MCCALISTER INTO THEIR HARDSHIP
EXEMPTION PROGRAM AND THEY S
THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH
HIM SINCE LATE LAST WEEK.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SIMILAR
PROGRAMS THE CITY OFFERS THAT
CAN AID SENIORS AND LOW-INCOME
FAMILIES.
YOU CAN FIND IT ON THE WBAL-TV
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