ICE's New MD Detention Center Would Need 209,000 Gallons of Water a Day. Nobody Knows Where It Will Come From.

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https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ices-new-maryland-detention-center?

ICE has filed no permits, made no water request and disclosed no plan for sustaining 1,500 detainees in a building allocated 800 gallons a day.
Michael Wriston (Project Salt Box)
Mar 06, 2026

On Jan. 16, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security paid $102.4 million in cash for an 825,620-square-foot logistics warehouse on Wright Road in Washington County, Md. The purchase closed without public notice, without environmental review and without consultation with state or local authorities.

The department’s plan is to convert the building into a detention facility for 1,500 immigrants. The warehouse currently has four toilets, two water fountains and an 800-gallon-a-day water allocation.

A facility housing 1,500 people requires an estimated 209,000 gallons a day.

Nancy Hausrath, Hagerstown’s director of utilities, knows this because she did the math herself, before a city council work session where residents had been pressing for answers. Her conclusion: “800 gallons a day for 1,500 people is a very low number.” She paused. “Not if it’s a housing facility.”

Then she added the detail that cuts through everything else — her department has received nothing from the federal government. No application, no inquiry, no phone call. “We have not received any contact,” she said.

[Whip-poor-will]

1. Words matter

Concentration / extermination camps.

Not everyone going in is walking out alive

We wouldn't have concentration camps, invade other countries , sink unarmed ships and bomb little girls schools because we're Americans the good guys ,Right

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2. The fiscal responsible party. (snicker snicker,Ha Ha )