Why so little outrage over the sewage spill?

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Anonymous wrote: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

What’s to be outraged about?

Adults are in charge. DC, MD, and VA have solidly Blue leadership in place, and who will competently deal with this problem in an efficient and equitable manor - because that’s what Dems do. If republicans were running things, this would be a major disaster. But they aren’t, so it’s not even a minor one.


Stop trying to stir up outrage. No one here is interested in what you’re talking about.

Are you insane? DC Water, which has to be the most lavishly funded municipal water plant on the entire planet, is responsible for one of the worst sewage spills in human history. And no one, it seems, in our worthless government has anything to say about it. The entire leadership at DC Water should have been fired yesterday.

[Anonymous]

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Look at your local leaders and how quiet they are about large problems like this. It tells you a lot. This will be the new normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at your local leaders and how quiet they are about large problems like this. It tells you a lot. This will be the new normal.

Look at the complete lack of leadership from people now running to be mayor. This reminds me of the shitshow we recently saw with the snowstorm.

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Anonymous wrote: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

You won’t hear it here because it’s an unmitigated disaster caused by the dangerously incompetent democrats!

The leaking area is under federal control for the past few decades. This is an issue of underfunded infrastructure

why did dc water have funding for fancy new HQ but not to prevent this kind of disaster?

Salaries at DC water are hilariously high. They pay customer service reps six figure salaries. The number of people at the municipal water plant who make more than a quarter million dollars a year is *bananas*

And you wonder why your water bill is so high. Some here makes almost $400,000.

https://www.dcwater.com/sites/default/files/document/2024-03/documents/employee_database_0.pdf

Okay I was expecting a lot worse. A whole bunch of those salaries are in the 80/90k range, which isn’t that incredibly much for a large metro area. And the $250k+ salaries appear linked to positions like general counsel, engineers, compliance director, etc. (I noticed some who have been there a decade or two). This is well below what they’d make in private sector, so I think you do need to differentiate these positions that require a higher level of education in order to recruit/retain people.

That said I have no idea if these particular employees are competent and deserving of this salary (even if the role itself should pay this much). I’m curious where exactly the ball was dropped.

Also, not to make light of the situation, but DC being surrounded by spewing shit feels like such an appropriate metaphor for the past year.

80K a year in DC is piss. Poverty level piss.

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How is this allowed?

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This “doctor” is barely literate. Yet she has not only a fed gov job, she’s over the District’s water dept, too?

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How is this allowed?

Are you referring to the photo editing? Seeing how she looks nothing like that.

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Anonymous wrote: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

You won’t hear it here because it’s an unmitigated disaster caused by the dangerously incompetent democrats!

The leaking area is under federal control for the past few decades. This is an issue of underfunded infrastructure

why did dc water have funding for fancy new HQ but not to prevent this kind of disaster?

Salaries at DC water are hilariously high. They pay customer service reps six figure salaries. The number of people at the municipal water plant who make more than a quarter million dollars a year is *bananas*

And you wonder why your water bill is so high. Some here makes almost $400,000.

https://www.dcwater.com/sites/default/files/document/2024-03/documents/employee_database_0.pdf

Okay I was expecting a lot worse. A whole bunch of those salaries are in the 80/90k range, which isn’t that incredibly much for a large metro area. And the $250k+ salaries appear linked to positions like general counsel, engineers, compliance director, etc. (I noticed some who have been there a decade or two). This is well below what they’d make in private sector, so I think you do need to differentiate these positions that require a higher level of education in order to recruit/retain people.

That said I have no idea if these particular employees are competent and deserving of this salary (even if the role itself should pay this much). I’m curious where exactly the ball was dropped.

Also, not to make light of the situation, but DC being surrounded by spewing shit feels like such an appropriate metaphor for the past year.

80K a year in DC is piss. Poverty level piss.

$80K no show job with maybe a high school diploma, platinum health care, and a pension is far from piss poor.

[Anonymous]

I don't think any of you know what a Board does. This is an operations problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look at your local leaders and how quiet they are about large problems like this. It tells you a lot. This will be the new normal.

Look at the complete lack of leadership from people now running to be mayor. This reminds me of the shitshow we recently saw with the snowstorm.

+1 the new mayor was just posting about how well she and the city did for snow removal 3 1/2 weeks AFTER the snow storm! Total incompetence!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at your local leaders and how quiet they are about large problems like this. It tells you a lot. This will be the new normal.

Look at the complete lack of leadership from people now running to be mayor. This reminds me of the shitshow we recently saw with the snowstorm.

+1 the new mayor was just posting about how well she and the city did for snow removal 3 1/2 weeks AFTER the snow storm! Total incompetence!

Did they sacrifice vrigins to make the sun come up every day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at your local leaders and how quiet they are about large problems like this. It tells you a lot. This will be the new normal.

Our local leaders are handling this smoothly and competently, as Democrats do. God help us if republicans had been in charge. I can only imagine what an unmitigated disaster this would’ve been with Hogan or Youngkin still in office.

The broken section of pipe has been found. It will be excavated this month. It will be fixed next month. It will be back in service by April or May. There is no danger to DC’s water supply. The Potomac river was already a dead, lifeless cesspool to begin with, so environmental harm will be minimal since the river was dead before this happened.


I see your game here is trying to cast doubt on the political leadership in DC,MD and VA, as well as the POC in upper management in city agencies. We see what you’re doing.


This spill isn’t that bad. You’re making it out to be far worse than it actually is, for sake of cheap political points.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look at your local leaders and how quiet they are about large problems like this. It tells you a lot. This will be the new normal.

Our local leaders are handling this smoothly and competently, as Democrats do. God help us if republicans had been in charge. I can only imagine what an unmitigated disaster this would’ve been with Hogan or Youngkin still in office.

The broken section of pipe has been found. It will be excavated this month. It will be fixed next month. It will be back in service by April or May. There is no danger to DC’s water supply. The Potomac river was already a dead, lifeless cesspool to begin with, so environmental harm will be minimal since the river was dead before this happened.


I see your game here is trying to cast doubt on the political leadership in DC,MD and VA, as well as the POC in upper management in city agencies. We see what you’re doing.


This spill isn’t that bad. You’re making it out to be far worse than it actually is, for sake of cheap political points.

You need to tone down the brazenness of your lies to make this even slightly believable. This is just shameless lying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look at your local leaders and how quiet they are about large problems like this. It tells you a lot. This will be the new normal.

Our local leaders are handling this smoothly and competently, as Democrats do. God help us if republicans had been in charge. I can only imagine what an unmitigated disaster this would’ve been with Hogan or Youngkin still in office.

The broken section of pipe has been found. It will be excavated this month. It will be fixed next month. It will be back in service by April or May. There is no danger to DC’s water supply. The Potomac river was already a dead, lifeless cesspool to begin with, so environmental harm will be minimal since the river was dead before this happened.


I see your game here is trying to cast doubt on the political leadership in DC,MD and VA, as well as the POC in upper management in city agencies. We see what you’re doing.


This spill isn’t that bad. You’re making it out to be far worse than it actually is, for sake of cheap political points.

+1. Much ado about nothing.