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10 THE BALTIMORE SUN NEWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015 NEWS THE BALTIMORE SUN 11 Some critical of council for talking with gangs Weeklong Baltimore curfew takes effect "Vhii'rp Ap fnrtn crnncr- controlled city if you give them any power." George W. Knox, director of the Chicago-based National Gang Crime Research Institute tit. 1 1,1,1 IT Sill -I lM mi 0 HHMI LUKE BROADWATERBALTIMORE SUN Self-described gang members stand with members of the City Council to condemn rioting at City Hall to call for an end to the violence. Late travelers will need photo ID, employer letter By Yvonne Wenger and Colin Campbell The Baltimore Sun Amid continued protests over the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore readied Tuesday for the start of a citywide curfew. The curfew which will be in effect for at least seven days, from 10 p.m.

to 5 am. applies to everyone in the city, though exceptions are in place for emergency personnel, students traveling for classes and people commuting to or from work for essential functions. Individuals may be stopped by authorities and asked to provide documentation to avoid arrest, according to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration. Violating the curfew is a misdemeanor. The mayor's office said that "nonessential business operations" should be suspended during the hours the curfew is in effect.

Restaurants, entertainment venues and bars should be closed between those hours, and patrons should plan enough time to travel before the curfew takes effect. Employees traveling to or from work during the curfew should have a valid photo ID and a document from their employer stating their need to work during curfew hours, along with the dates and employee hours, according to the administration. At the end of the week, Rawlings-Blake will determine whether the curfew should be extended. The city already has a curfew that requires children younger than 14 to be indoors by 9 p.m. on school nights.

Those older than 14 may stay out until 10 p.m. on school nights and 11 p.m. on weekends and over the summer. Mayoral spokesman Kevin Harris said the citywide curfew announced Monday was set to take effect Tuesday night so police had time to ramp up enforcement efforts. Harris also said people needed reasonable notice before a curfew is enforced.

Riots on Monday followed a week of mostly peaceful protests over the death of the 25-year-old Gray in police custody. The protests boiled into violence Saturday, and it worsened Monday after Gray's funeral. Baltimore Sun reporter Luke Broadwater contributed to this article. cmcampbellbaltsun.com twitter.comcmcampbell6 KIM Al RSTONBALTI MORE SUN A worker boards up the Weis grocery store Tuesday at the Security Square Mall in Wood-lawn, which had been listed on social media as a site for a possible "purge" of lawlessness. City, Balto.

Co. police respond to threats of another 'purge' York, said he wasn't surprised that church leaders stood with gang members to ask for peace. Even in high-crime neighborhoods, gang members are known to watch out for the areas, he said. "People in these neighborhoods don't like chaos and destruction," said Kennedy, who has been advising Baltimore on policing strategies. "It's being driven by a small number of people." Gilliard said the gang members who reached out to help could be "a catalyst" for change in the neighborhood, helping leaders communicate better with the youth.

"I believe they are valuable," he said. Perkins said the city can use all the help it can get because of the "leadership vacuum" he sees on the streets as police and protesters continue to face off without few signs of visible enforcement. "At this point things are spiraling out of control," Perldns said. "The police still do not have control of the streets. This is a dangerous situation because in a vacuum, leadership will emerge.

The question is what type of leadership." ddonovanbaltsun.com mpuentebaltsun.com luke.broadwaterbaltsun.com residents are tired of mistreatment from police, such as "officers rolling up with their guns drawn" when they encounter groups of men on the streets. Standing next to a young man who said he was a member of the rival Bloods gang, Shelly said, "You got a Crip here, you got a Blood here, we not here for nobody to get hurt. We're here to protect our community. Me and him, we're supposed to be at arms, ldlling each other. Instead we in a church hugging each other." Gang experts generally discounted the police advisory that the Crips, Bloods and BGF gangs had come together to target police.

"You're not going to get three different gangs to come together that fast," Knox said. "It's not realistic and it's not logical and it's not consistent" Peter former Baltimore police officer who is an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said Batts was making a "red herring" argument about widespread gang problems in the city. Moskos said Batts, who previously headed the Oakland, Calif, Police Department, was "taking that from Oakland where gang violence was a real problem. His wholegang focus is out of touch. It's ridiculous." DavidM.

Kennedy, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New By Pamela Wood, Scott Dance and Michael Dresser The Baltimore Sun Responding to social media rumors about another planned "purge" Tuesday afternoon, police guarded shopping centers and malls around Baltimore city and county, but the threats were unfounded. Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson said that his agency deemed none of the threats credible, but deployed officers BALTIMORE CITY City of Baltimore Department of Public Works Annual Water Quality Report DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS RUDOLPH S. CHOW, P. E. DIRECTOR STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE MAYOR BALTIMORE CITY WATER QUALITY REPORT FOR 2014 GANGS, From page 1 leaders say such gang outreach is essential in a crisis, criminologists have been shocked to see the leaders supporting groups often associated with a drug trade that helps to make Baltimore one of the nation's most violent cities.

While those criminologists also doubted the claim of police officials that gangs were targeting officers, they said the alert was no excuse for religious and elected officials to lend the legitimacy of their institutions to criminal groups. "You're a de facto gang-controlled city if you give them any power," said George W. Knox, director of die Chicago-based National Gang Crime Research Institute. "They are not part of the solution. They are part of the problem." City officials should be meeting publicly with teachers, mothers, crime victims, ministers and other community leaders not gang members, Knox said.

"You embolden them when you recognize them. It gives them power and status. You are creating a bigger monster." Officials of the local police union had no comment on the issue; Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake did not respond to a request for comment. Tuesday's news conference came about 12 hours after Young joined more than 75 religious leaders at New Shiloh Baptist Church to deliver a similar message about gang members, while imploring Baltimore residents to stop rioting over Gray's death. The Rev.

William C. Calhoun, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, and other church leaders said gang members can be instrumental in reaching the youths seen looting and rioting. Calhoun and other ministers ran into gang members by chance on Monday night when the religious leaders marched from New Shiloh to North Avenue, where chaos still engulfed the street. Both sides quickly realized that they were braving the violence to accomplish the same thing: restoring peace. And so the ministers still dressed in their suits from Gray's funeral at New Shiloh and the tattooed and T-shirt-clad gang members walked back to the church to talk.

Calhoun said the meeting was very productive. "We asked questions of each other. How can we quell the violence? We didn't come to do any blame game. We came to share and listen and to pray." The Rev. Gregory Perkins, pastor of Historic St.

Paul Community Baptist Church, said he supported the effort because gang members "have their ears to the ground on the street and can be used to bring about solutions." He disagreed that such meetings give gangs legitimacy. "Simply because the City Council meets with gang members in no way indicates that they're legitimizing gang activity," he said. This wouldn't be the first time that city officials had turned to criminals to help halt violence. Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist at the University of Baltimore, said that during Baltimore's 1968 riots, drug kingpin Melvin "Little Melvin" Williams was credited with dispersing rioters. The Baltimore Sun reported in 2000 that Williams had stood up at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Mosher Street not far from the current rioting and with a microphone declared, "It's all over.

Go home." The streets emptied shortly after. "He wasn't a gang leader, but he was influential in Baltimore's underworld," Ross said. "Any solutions to quelling the violence and to restoring a sense of normalcy and to building a better city will require the participation of blocs of power players. And gangs are one of them." Councilman Nick Mosby, who represents the West Baltimore neighborhood where Gray was arrested, said the 13 council members stood with Young on Tuesday to show solidarity about the need to stop the rioting. He added that it was good to conduct outreach with the gang members.

Former Mayor Sheila Dixon said gang members are a "segment of our community" that has "a voice that no one is listening to." "I believe they could be of help," said Dixon, who once represented Gray's neighborhoods as a councilwoman. "They can influence some of those young people" who are looting. At the council news conference and the New Shiloh gathering, some participants alleged that the Police Department falsely accused gangs on Monday of conspiring to target police officers. "That was a false alarm cooked up to divide this city even further," said William "Billy" Murphy, the attorney for Gray's family. He and Gray's relatives joined the meeting at New Shiloh to call for peace.

Ministers and gang members in attendance including Young all nodded in agreement when Murphy said police lied about the "credible threat" about gangs targeting police. Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said Tuesday that the threat was credible. "We have verified it," Batts said. "We did not issue it to divide the community." However, ministers and council members disagreed.

"We discovered tonight that gang members are not the problem," said the Rev. Errol Gilliard pastor of Greater Harvest Baptist Church. "Most of the looting was done by sick children." Charles Shelly, who called himself a Crips gang member, said at Monday night's New Shiloh meeting that the police advisory made no sense. "It's false, absolutely false. If that was the case, why wouldn't we do it today? We were on their side today." He said gang members do not condone looting and rioting and actually tried to help quell outbursts on North Avenue.

But he said the rioting shows that black Lead and copper testing was last required by regulatory standards in 2012. During that year, the testing involved 52 "tier 1" or high risks homes. To determine compliance, the 52 test results were arranged from the lowest value to the highest. The 90th percentile value is identified by: 52 0.9 46.8. Therefore, the 47th value, arranged from lowest to highest, must be below the "action level" for lead and copper.

Our system met this compliance standard. Testing will be required again in 2015. SUBSTANCE ACTION LEVEL 90TH PERCENTILE SAMPLE RESULTS GREATER THAN ACTION LEVEL LEAD 15 ppb 5.38 ppb 0 COPPER 1,300 ppb 256 ppb 0 If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from materials and components associated with service lines and home plumbing. The City of Baltimore is responsible for providing high quality drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components.

When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or cooking. If you are concerned about lead in your drinking water, you may wish to have your water tested. Information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available from the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791 or at http:www.epa.govsafewaterlead. just to be sure. "Purge" is a reference to a movie in which crime is made legal.

Given the frustration still simmering across West Baltimore, one young man walking through the parking lot of Security Square Mall in Woodlawn said the threat was still serious. "It could happen at any time" said Alex Winfield, a 22 -year-old Woodlawn resident who came with a group of friends to see if there were any crowds around the mall. With West Baltimore just a few miles away, crowds could easily drive to the mall, a popular gathering space, he said. He said he spent some time on North Avenue during Monday's riots and understood the anger. "A lot of things that went on yesterday were really uncalled for," Winfield said.

But, he added, "it's not just one thing that led up to yesterday's events." Security Square Mall officials said they decided to close Tuesday morning after consulting with police, though police stressed that they did not order any shopping centers or businesses to close. The nearby Social Security Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent thousands of employees home by early afternoon. At the mall, there was a visible presence of county and state police. All entrances to the mall were blocked, and a helicopter circled overhead as the appointed "purge" hour of 3:30 p.m, as advertised on social media, came and went Owings Mills Mall was also tagged on social media for a supposed "purge," but all was quiet Tuesday afternoon. The mall was closed, as were shops at the Metro Centre at Owings Mills development nearby.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Ka-menetz said that he hoped the violent demonstrations would abate in the city and not spread to the county. "We support everybody's right to peaceful protest, but whatever is happening now has nothing to do with Freddie Gray. We will not tolerate criminal activity in Baltimore County," Kamenetz said. He urged county residents to go about their normal activities. County schools did cancel after-school activities and games Tuesday, but Kamenetz said that decision was not based on safety concerns.

Rather, he said, many parents indicated that they would keep their children home anyway. The Woodlawn and Owings Mills library branches in the county closed early, as did campuses of Towson University and the Community College of Baltimore County to allow students and patrons to get home before Baltimore City's 10 p.m. curfew. Postings on Twitter indicated that another disturbance was possible at the Northwood Plaza shopping center near Morgan State University. By early evening, the Save-A-Lot grocery store and other shops were closed.

But the plaza's sidewalks were quiet save for some children on bicycles and scooters. An air of tension hung over the Alameda Marketplace on The Alameda near Northern Parkway on Tuesday afternoon. The strip shopping center had been the target of vandalism Monday, and about two dozen police officers from Baltimore and Howard County were standing guard about 5 p.m. The Shoppers grocery store and two carry-outs remained open under guard, but most other stores were closed. At the Rainbow Shop clothing store, assistant manager D'Juan Rose was waiting for workers to board up the shop's shattered door, but she wasn't planning to hang around after dark if they didn't come soon.

Rose was hopeful the shop could reopen as early as today. "I think it will be clear tonight," she said. Jordan Wilson, 23, of the Beechdale neighborhood, said the circumstances of Freddie Gray's death "really bothered" people, but she was hoping for reconciliation. "We are all people and we are all human and we all deserve respect," Wilson said. Back at Security Square Mall, Peter Joseph stood in the parking lot waiting for truck drivers to haul away the carnival rides that he normally would have been setting up for a two-week run.

After talking with police and mall management Tuesday morning, he decided to cancel the carnival. "It's a big disappointment for everybody," said Joseph, president of Annapolis-based Jolly Shows. "What's sad is the people causing these problems could care less about Freddie Gray." Baltimore Sun reporter Liz Bowie contributed to this article. pwoodbaltsun.com sdancebaltsun.com Term Abbreviation Definition What it Means PPM Parts per million 1 ppm is the same as one drop in 10 gallons of water. PPB Parts per billion 1 ppb is the same as one drop in 10,000 gallons of water.

HLD Highest Level Detected Same as defined. MCL Maximum Contaminant Level The highest level of a contaminant allowed by health regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency. MCLG Maximum Contaminant Level Goal Health related goals. The MCL is set as close to this "goal" as possible but with consideration to achievability and cost. NTU Nephelometric Turbidity Units Units of measurement used to report the level of turbidity or "cloudiness" in the water.

AL Action Level If the "Action Level" for a particular contaminant is exceeded, a response that may include additional treatment steps andor public education may have to be initiated by the water system. TT Treatment Technique A "Treatment Technique" is a required process that is intended to reduce the amount of a specific contaminant in drinking water. pCiL picoCuries per Liter A measure of the level of radioactivity in the water. TURBIDITY Relates to a condition where suspended Turbidity measurements are a way to describe the level of "cloudiness" of the water, particles are present in the water. TOTALFECAL COLIFORMS Indicator Bacteria Type of bacteriological tests routinely used to determine if contamination has occurred in a drinking water system.

MRDL Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Disinfectant level beyond which some people may experience irritating effects. Based on running annual average of monthly averages of distribution system samples computed quarterly. SUBSTANCE MCLG MCL ASHBURTON PLANT MONTEBELLO PLANTS MAJOR SOURCES HLD RANGE HLD RANGE BARIUM 2 ppm 2 ppm 0.02ppm 0.02 ppm 0.03 ppm 0.03 ppm Discharge of drilling wastes metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits. NITRATE 10ppm 10 ppm 2.30 ppm 1.63-2.30ppm 2.53 ppm 1.68-2.53 ppm Run-off from fertilizer use; leaching from septic (AS NITROGEN) tanks; erosion of natural deposits. SUBSTANCE MCLG MCL ASHBURTON PLANT MONTEBELLO PLANTS MAJOR SOURCES HLD I RANGE I AVERAGE HLD I RANGE I AVERAGE FLUORIDE 4 ppm 4 ppm 0.76 ppm 0.61 0.76 ppm 0.68 ppm 1.29 ppm 0.14 ppm 0.70 ppm Water additive that promotes strong teeth.

SUBSTANCE MRDLG MRDL RUNNING ANNUAL AVG. OF MONTHLY SAMPLES COMPUTED QUARTERLY MAJOR SOURCE CHLORINE 4 ppm 4 ppm 0.49 ppm (Based on 4,787 distribution system samples collected in 2014) Water treatment additive to disinfect supply. SUBSTANCE MCLG MCL ASHBURTON PLANT MONTEBELLO PLANTS MAJOR SOURCES BETA PHOTON EMITTERS 0 mremyr 50 pCiL 1.5pCiL 4 pCiL Erosion of natural deposits. ALPHA EMITTERS 0 pCiL 15 pCiL 1 pCiL 2 pCiL Erosion of natural deposits. The MCL for Beta Photon Emitters is 4 millirems per year (a measure of radiation absorbed by the body).

The EPA considers 50 pCil to be a level of concern for this contaminant. SUBSTANCE MCLG MCL ASHBURTON PLANT MONTEBELLO PLANTS MAJOR SOURCES TOTAL COLIFORMS 0 The presence of Highest monthly percentage of Highest monthly percentage of Naturally present in the environment, coliform bacteria in positive samples: positive samples: more than 5 of 4.66 4.66 monthly samples will Not a violation. Not a violation, exceed the MCL. All repeat samples were negative. All repeat samples were negative.

FECAL COLIFORMS 0 A routine sample and Highest monthly percentage of Highest monthly percentage of Human and animal fecal waste, and E. COLI a repeat sample are positive samples: positive samples: total coliform positive, 0 0 and one is also fecal coliform or E. Coli positive. SUBSTANCE MCLG MCL ASHBURTON PLANT MONTEBELLO PLANTS MAJOR SOURCES HLD RANGE "AVERAGE HLD RANGE "AVERAGE (LRAA) (LRAA) (LRAA) (LRAA) (LRAA) (LRAA) TOTAL NA 80 ppb 82 ppb 17-82 ppb 40 ppb 69 ppb 16-69 ppb 45 ppb By-product of drinking water THM'S chlorination. HAA(5) NA 60 ppb 78 ppb 5-78 ppb 40 ppb 73 ppb 0.5-73 ppb 31 ppb By-product of drinking water chlorination.

Liberty: 0.0 OocystLiter Cryptosporidium (crip-toe-spor-ID-ee-um) is a protozoan, a single-celled parasite that can invade and reside in the intestines of animals and people. This organism is found in some surface water (lakes, reservoirs, rivers, etc.) And also groundwater under the influence of surface water. Infection of healthy individuals by this organism can cause a gastrointestinal illness referred to as cryptosporidiosis (crip-toe-spor-id-ee-o-sis), which may produce symptoms Loch Raven: 0.0 OocystLitel Susquehanna River: 0.0 including diarrhea, headache, abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting and low-grade fever. The symptoms usually last one to two weeks. SUBSTANCE MCLG MCL ASHBURTON PLANT MONTEBELLO PLANTS MAJOR SOURCES TURBIDITY1 None Treatment HLD I LOWEST HLD I LOWEST Soil run-off.

Technique (TT) Filtration 0.08 NTU 100 0.32 NTU 97 1 Turbidity cannot exceed 1 NTU and must be less than or equal to 0.3 NTU in at least 95 of measurements taken each month. Lowest is the lowest percentage of monthly filtered water turbidity samples less than 0.3 NTU. For immunocompromised people, however, the infection can continue and last for several months. Because there are no effective medical treatments, prolonged infection can be fatal for severely immunocompromised individuals. Human transmission routes include ingestion of contaminated food or drinking water or through direct contact with fecal matter.

The City monitors its raw water sources for the presence of Cryptosporidium using the services of environmental laboratories employing the latest available and approved analytical methods. SECONDARY CONTAMINANTS Sodium levels in the water supply are often of concern to consumers who contact our facilities. Sodium naturally occurs in raw waters but the concentration can be increased due to the influence of run-off from road surfaces treated with rock salt during snow and ice removal efforts. During the year 2014, the average sodium concentrations measured in the finished water from the Ashburton and Montebello Water Treatment Plants were 19.6 ppm and 21.8 ppm respectively. People with HIVAIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly and infants can be particularly at risk from infections.

These people should seek advice about drinking water from their healthcare providers. EPACDC guideline on appropiate means to lessen the risk of infection by Cryptosporidium and other microbial contaminants are available from the at If you have specific health concerns, consult your doctor. SUBSTANCE MCL ASHBURTON PLANT MONTEBELLO PLANTS MAJOR SOURCES ARSENIC 0.010 ppm 0.003 ppm 0.003 ppm Erosion of natural deposits..