Trump signs emergency declaration after Potomac River spill, sewer collapse chaos

President Donald Trump on Saturday approved an emergency declaration for the District of Columbia due in wake of the Potomac ...

DC mayor declares emergency, asks President Trump for help on sewage spill on the Potomac

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser declared an emergency on Wednesday and requested that President Donald Trump provide federal resources to help the city fight a sewage system ...
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The Potomac River, Stuck at a B Grade

The Potomac Conservancy gave the Potomac River a B grade in its recent report card, the fifth B in ten years. And while a B is better than the D the river got in 2011 or the C in 2013, the river is ...
Engineering News-Record

DC Utility Pushes to Remediate Up to 300M-Gal Potomac River Sewage Spill

Section of the 72-in.dia. Potomac Interceptor sewage line that collapsed on Jan. 19 is excavated; the incident sent up to 300 million gal of untreated wastewater into the Potomac River. February 2, ...
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So there’s 300 million gallons of poop water in the Potomac River. Now what?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or a cascade of “snowcrete,” which might actually be plausible) for the past two weeks, you have probably heard that a deluge of poop water has been wending its ...