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Why so little outrage over the sewage spill?
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Anonymous
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100s of millions of gallons of sewage have flowed into the Potomac, the broken pipe may not be fixed for months
Crew season will have to be cancelled |
Anonymous
I mean, yes. But that's what you're outraged about? |
Anonymous
| Surprised I'm not hearing more outrage about this as well. I didn't realize how bad it was until a conversation I had yesterday, though. Perhaps that is it -- people don't realize how serious it is. |
Anonymous
| I live nearby. You must not be plugged in to the right networks because there is a lot of outrage. Lots of environmental types who were already working on behalf of various groups are doing their best to (at the start of the problem) figure out what's going on, mitigate the damage, get clear info. Contact your political officials if you are concerned. Some are also involved. |
Anonymous
No it is a disaster and I could care less about crew. But once the usually wealthy parents of crew kids realize their DCs can’t practice this spring and that may impact college prospects they will go nuts |
Anonymous
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I didn’t realize it was still happening until today.
Crazy. |
Anonymous
| OP, do you have a sense of how big the spill is compared to our regular combined sewer overflows in an average year, and how it compares to like, bay cleanup targets generally? I am concerned about it but I don’t really understand the scale or what if anything is happening now that people object to. Like a bad failure happened, but are we mad at the response or mad at the planning? Etc. So I think mostly it’s just people being concerned but not called to any action. |
Anonymous
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Because it happened a few hours before the snowstorm and arctic blast, and everyone was busy trying to dig out of their own driveways, OP. Crews had a terrible time trying to address the sewage main break, and also deal with the cold and ice.
Now it might come to the fore, but the news cycle is fickle. |
Anonymous
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WaPo fired 70% of their news desk and the local section just can't do it all. But you can always contact them to ask they follow-up on the snippets they've already written and do a more in-depth report. |
Anonymous
| Who is saying spring crew will be cancelled? They don’t SWIM in it! |
Anonymous
| There was a second spill/problem the day of the super bowl that exacerbated things and no one is talking about it. |
Anonymous
Someone needs to officially alert crew teams that there's an E-Coli contamination spike in the Potomac. Kids do come into contact with the water, PP. You don't need to swim in it to be impacted. |
Anonymous
It only takes a tiny splash to make someone very, very ill. |
Anonymous
| Largest sewage spill in US history and nothing. You can't make this up. Now its raining and city of Alexandria sewage is going to spill into the Potomac like it always does and nothing. The mayor is still making facebook videos 3 1/2 weeks later about how well snow removal is going! |
Anonymous
| Dc is already pretty sh!tty, no one is very surprised |