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

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*

[Anonymous]

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

Everyone is exhausted from being outraged by everything else.

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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*

Is there a link or any data on this?

[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

They will move crew to north of the spill.

Oh - is there a boathouse they can use to put in boats north of Swainson Island? I imagine when all of this “ice” melts, the contamination levels will soar. 300 million gallons is crazy. Otherwise, everyone will need protective gear.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5740260-potomac-sewage-collapse-repair/amp/

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It's pretty insane the lack of interest and reporting on it.

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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.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Dissolving AFTER clogging pipes is still causing a problem before they dissolve.

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty insane the lack of interest and reporting on it.

It just made national news. Going to be months before it fixed properly. Thanks to the moron in Annapolis, it won’t be fixed for years. Rather than focusing on $hit in the Potomac, he’s too focused on signing an emergency legislation requiring local law enforcement agencies to end their participation in a federal immigration enforcement agreement.

[Anonymous]

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

"Sir, can we row or are we up a creek without paddles?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty insane the lack of interest and reporting on it.

Uh, well, maybe you shouldn't have canceled your subscription to the Washington Post. This is the kind of story they would have had a whole team of people covering, until all their subscribers decided they had to protest Bezos and cripple the Metro section in the process. Now one else in DC has the resources to fill the gap that is left.

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty insane the lack of interest and reporting on it.

Uh, well, maybe you shouldn't have canceled your subscription to the Washington Post. This is the kind of story they would have had a whole team of people covering, until all their subscribers decided they had to protest Bezos and cripple the Metro section in the process. Now one else in DC has the resources to fill the gap that is left.

Boy, you got that ass backwards. First, Bezos took a dump on the paper. Then people started to leave. Then the paper (and editorial board!) somehow got even worse and more people left. That’s kinda how it goes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty insane the lack of interest and reporting on it.

Uh, well, maybe you shouldn't have canceled your subscription to the Washington Post. This is the kind of story they would have had a whole team of people covering, until all their subscribers decided they had to protest Bezos and cripple the Metro section in the process. Now one else in DC has the resources to fill the gap that is left.

Boy, you got that ass backwards. First, Bezos took a dump on the paper. Then people started to leave. Then the paper (and editorial board!) somehow got even worse and more people left. That’s kinda how it goes.

Subscriptions *tripled* after Bezos took over. Then, in 2024, he killed the Kamala Harris endorsement. Then hundreds of thousands of snowflakes decided they had to cancel their subscriptions because they were big mad about an editorial page they never previously spent three seconds thinking about. If you were among them, and now you're complaining about the lack of coverage of something or other, well, you're complaining about a problem that you created. Canceling subscriptions to newspapers is a pretty effective way to destroy them. There's no levers they can pull to replace that revenue.

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Anonymous wrote:It's pretty insane the lack of interest and reporting on it.

Uh, well, maybe you shouldn't have canceled your subscription to the Washington Post. This is the kind of story they would have had a whole team of people covering, until all their subscribers decided they had to protest Bezos and cripple the Metro section in the process. Now one else in DC has the resources to fill the gap that is left.

The Post had a multiplier effect too. If they were producing huge stories on the sewage spill, every other local media outlet would have to do the same or they'd look like they were ignoring the biggest local story out there.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I have been told by posters on this forum we can easily double our population density without having an impact on the sewer system. In fact, it's childish to even mention it.

Are you serious? That's beyond ignorant!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's pretty insane the lack of interest and reporting on it.

+1 Millon

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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.

DC Water is a sovereign government that operates within the US.