Why so little outrage over the sewage spill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

Then why are we paying vast sums of money every month to the water treatment company? If it’s not even effective, why bother?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If summer camps on the Potomac river (boating in DC, Calleva, etc.) are cancelled parents will go insane and this will be a top story.

I can't imagine they will happen. This is apparently a 10 month project.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If summer camps on the Potomac river (boating in DC, Calleva, etc.) are cancelled parents will go insane and this will be a top story.

I can't imagine they will happen. This is apparently a 10 month project.

Calleva won’t be impacted. It’s anything south of the 495 bridge.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is saying spring crew will be cancelled? They don’t SWIM in it!

It only takes a tiny splash to make someone very, very ill.

Awful. How long will it take to clean up?

There's no cleanup. It'll eventually just get diluted and washed downstream.

[Anonymous]

In addition to local news being gutted, nobody really cares about the environment any more. Trump just destroyed emissions standards and the Clean Air Act and there isn’t a peep. We’ll have to wait for a mass mortality event before we return to an environmental era.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC operates a combined sewer system. Every time we get a heavy rain, the sewage overflows into the Potomac. It's been this way forever, and no one has cared.

No it hasn’t. This is fake news, local government bot spin. This is the largest sewage spill in US history. Period.

DC is a constant ongoing sewer spill.

https://www.dcwater.com/about-dc-water/what-we-do/wastewater-collection/css

It is estimated, based on data from DC Water, in a year with average rainfall, the combined sewer system in Washington, D.C. discharges roughly 1.5 billion gallons into the Anacostia River, 850 million gallons into the Potomac River, and 52 million gallons into Rock Creek.

Yearly.

[Anonymous]

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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

I mean, yes. But that's what you're outraged about?

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

Crew at ACHS (TC Williams) is mostly poor black kids, idiot.

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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!

This is about elderly sewer infrastructure and I'd say most of the blame lies with the company not making repairs sooner.

We are talking about the lack of coverage, not the cause. Try to keep up.

[Anonymous]

the sewage system in the area is already horridfically over stressed they're adding more density daily and it can't handle it. They think people don't notice the smells AND the really, really loud sewage pumping trucks they've been using to hide the problem for 2 years now.

I wish a local news would pick up this story they're trying to hard to hide from residents.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why people have to use those wet wipes. That pisses me off. What a mess!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC operates a combined sewer system. Every time we get a heavy rain, the sewage overflows into the Potomac. It's been this way forever, and no one has cared.

This is partly true. It does happen, by design.

But that design is not without upsides, like street runoff going to blue plains instead of directly into creeks and rivers.

And people DO care, a lot, and that’s why in recent years the city has dug huge tunnels to hold stormwater and reduce the size and frequency of combined sewer overflows.

[Anonymous]

When will teams officially let rowers know whether the water season can proceed? Lots of money tied up in these club teams….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC operates a combined sewer system. Every time we get a heavy rain, the sewage overflows into the Potomac. It's been this way forever, and no one has cared.

This is partly true. It does happen, by design.

But that design is not without upsides, like street runoff going to blue plains instead of directly into creeks and rivers.

And people DO care, a lot, and that’s why in recent years the city has dug huge tunnels to hold stormwater and reduce the size and frequency of combined sewer overflows.

To be clear, it is DC Water that has been upgrading the infrastructure, not "the city"

[Anonymous]

Trump: "There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local Democrat Leaders, particularly, Governor Wes Moore ... I cannot allow incompetent Local “Leadership” to turn the River in the Heart of Washington into a Disaster Zone."


So he is blaming Wes Moore for something that was decades in the making. that tracks.

He is also citing the Dems closure of FEMA as an issue (as if trump was not already gutting FEMA) a well as the EPA (as if the GOP hasn't totally gutted the EPA)

Hypocrisy and narcissism to the nines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC operates a combined sewer system. Every time we get a heavy rain, the sewage overflows into the Potomac. It's been this way forever, and no one has cared.

No it hasn’t. This is fake news, local government bot spin. This is the largest sewage spill in US history. Period.

Yes it is. Both are true. See the city of Alexandria.