Decades of flooding fixed with $1.7 million stream restoration in Cockeysville

For years, rain in Cockeysville meant dangerous flooding conditions on part of York Road below Sherwood Hill. No longer. This summer, a state-funded restoration project re-engineered a section of streambed upstream from the main road, capturing and slowing runoff that flows beneath Sherwood Road and had carved a 30-foot chasm in the woods behind the almost 200-year-old church. “The rate of ...