Baltimore City and County lawmakers took the first step Thursday toward implementing an agreement they signed five years ago to improve 275 square miles of watershed that does not meet federal water quality standards.

A 13-member joint committee met for the first time in Baltimore?s Middle Branch Park to begin identifying solutions to restore 775 miles of streams in the shared Jones Falls, Herring Run, Gwynns Falls and Patapsco watersheds.

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