Need a whole lot of wood?
The city is looking for someone -- like a contractor or company of some sort -- to buy the large stock of wood its accumulated.
The thousands of tons of wood comes from tree trimmings and branches downed in storms and there is only so much mulch Baltimore can make from it.
The city has run out of room and will for the first time take bids for the pile, 30 feet high in places, at Camp Small, an old Civil War campsite better known as the "stump dump" to residents who go pick up wood for fires and projects.
Small pieces are still free for residents who want go to the facility on Cold Spring Lane just west of I-83 and pick them up.
So, if you have use for an extremely large pile of wood, or are able to recycle it or make energy from it, the Department of General Services and the Department of Recreation and Parks wants to hear from you.
Contact Paul Skorochod of the DGS Energy Division at 410-545-6071. The deadline for bids is July 29.
Baltimore Sun photo of fallen tree branch during storm in Owings Mills/Gene Sweeney Jr.
