No, this is not a joke.
The Waterfront Partnership, led by Laurie Schwartz for nearly two decades, and Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott have announced that the water in the Inner Harbor—a long-standing industrial port city on the East Coast known for its history of industry, manufacturing, shipping, transportation, toxic pollutants, and chronic sewage spillovers—has suddenly become “swimmable and fishable.”‘
On June 23, Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott will make the ceremonial jump into the Baltimore Harbor from a floating dock at Bond Street Wharf in Fells Point to celebrate the Waterfront Partnership’s milestone of allegedly creating a harbor clean enough to swim in.
“I know the data, I know the water is safe, and that’s why I’ll be jumping in the harbor,” Scott said on the nonprofit’s website.
Publishers Notes: Can anyone say Jim Ireton?
That information right there tells me the Chesapeake Bay should have an “A” rating from the chesapeake bay foundation.
are they going to power wash him afterwards and carry him off to a clinic to get tested
They will probably pour barrels of bleach in the spot he is going to jump. Of course they will have it all cleaned up in that spot for the media.