Why so little outrage over the sewage spill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are finding those flushable wet wipes as the culprit for clogging up the system and causing the rupture. Those products should be taken off the market.

If anything, they need to stop being marketed as "flushable." Our pipes cannot handle them being flushed. They either need to be thrown away or people need to start using bidets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5741034-trump-moore-potomac-waste-spill/ "Since the last century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor, which is the origin of the sewage leak. For the last four weeks, the Trump Administration has failed to act, shirking its responsibility and putting people’s health at risk,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for Moore, told The Hill."
Apparently the leaking area was the responsibility of the federal government, not DC or MD

DC Water is responsible for the Potomac Interceptor since they own the infrastructure. It might be on public land, but that doesn't make the federal government responsible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5741034-trump-moore-potomac-waste-spill/ "Since the last century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor, which is the origin of the sewage leak. For the last four weeks, the Trump Administration has failed to act, shirking its responsibility and putting people’s health at risk,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for Moore, told The Hill."
Apparently the leaking area was the responsibility of the federal government, not DC or MD

DC Water is responsible for the Potomac Interceptor since they own the infrastructure. It might be on public land, but that doesn't make the federal government responsible.

D.C. is not a state.

The federal government maintains ultimate authority over the District of Columbia, including its local policies, budget, and, by extension, amenities, under the U.S. Constitution and the Home Rule Act of 1973.

Neither Virginia or Maryland has the authority to step in and fix this break, yet those states will certainly feel the environmental impact. Sewage has spread to 73 miles downstream now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5741034-trump-moore-potomac-waste-spill/ "Since the last century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor, which is the origin of the sewage leak. For the last four weeks, the Trump Administration has failed to act, shirking its responsibility and putting people’s health at risk,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for Moore, told The Hill."
Apparently the leaking area was the responsibility of the federal government, not DC or MD

DC Water is responsible for the Potomac Interceptor since they own the infrastructure. It might be on public land, but that doesn't make the federal government responsible.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lashes-out-at-maryland-governors-over-potomac-river-sewage-spill-response incorrect. It's under federal EPA management "The 1960s-era pipe, called the Potomac Interceptor, is part of DC Water, a utility based in Washington that's federally regulated and under the oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency". Apparently the EPA skipped emergency response meetings

[Anonymous]

Everything out of Trump’s mouth is a sewage spill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are finding those flushable wet wipes as the culprit for clogging up the system and causing the rupture. Those products should be taken off the market.

If anything, they need to stop being marketed as "flushable." Our pipes cannot handle them being flushed. They either need to be thrown away or people need to start using bidets.

This. The break occurred because of a blockage during the super bowl when there was excessive demand on the aging infrastructure..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

how do you prevent millions of non-flushable "flushable" wipes from blocking a pipe at a time when everyone flushed their toilets simultaenously at a break in the super bowl?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are finding those flushable wet wipes as the culprit for clogging up the system and causing the rupture. Those products should be taken off the market.

Schwalb should sue. I bet he could get a lot of other attorneys general on board, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are finding those flushable wet wipes as the culprit for clogging up the system and causing the rupture. Those products should be taken off the market.

If anything, they need to stop being marketed as "flushable." Our pipes cannot handle them being flushed. They either need to be thrown away or people need to start using bidets.

There was a good episode on flushable wipes on the Search Engine podcast last week.

I'm going to sound like a shill for the flushable wipes industry (I promise I'm not and I don't buy them!), but it's not necessarily the flushable wipes that are causing problems. They do apparently dissolve. It's everything else that gets flushed -- baby wipes, paper towels, etc -- that is horrible for pipes and the rise of the flushable wipes industry has made people think they can put anything down their toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everything out of Trump’s mouth is a sewage spill

Lol 😂 you say that and yet he's the only one doing anything about it?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-fema-potomac-river-sewage-leak-response-rcna259271

[Anonymous]

Why is he so obsessed with Wes Moore? Is it just that he's black?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

They will move crew to north of the spill.

[Anonymous]

They have crew teams on the Anacostia, at Bladensburg. Maybe more can fit there, idk.