Why so little outrage over the sewage spill?

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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.

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

Yes, DC Water has to obey EPA regulations. The EPA has nothing to do with day to day operation. The EPA does not manage DC Water. DC Water has a board of directors.

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1000 times the toxic volume of the Exxon Valdez in democrat poop water doesn't excite the eco warriors .

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Anonymous wrote:1000 times the toxic volume of the Exxon Valdez in democrat poop water doesn't excite the eco warriors .

I honestly haven’t seen much news coverage of this. I guess the Trump admin has been absorbing all the oxygen in this area.

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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.

I know this is off-topic, but I completely agree with you. I think people have very short memories. I remember not too long ago, so many people were bragging that they had canceled their Washington Post subscriptions. Now those same people or the same demographic are lamenting that it laid off journalists. Which is sad for us in this area because the Washington Post is our local paper.

To the credit of local news stations, I can’t remember who, but it was mentioned in local news when it first started. But the attention it received was negligent. It was mentioned last night on national news. It’s getting the attention now, but my mind is blown that it had not received much attention prior.

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The broken part of the line is in a national (federal) park. I am sure DC can't just roll up and start digging without federal input. DC is also far from autonomous. Did you miss the mess last year where DC couldn't spend it's OWN money on budgeted item due to federal interference? Take a seat.

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

not enough eyerolls for this

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Surprised Trump and the gop have not made this about dei. If any organization deserves to be blown up over its ideological and financial bloat and mismanagement, it is dc water

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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.

I know this is off-topic, but I completely agree with you. I think people have very short memories. I remember not too long ago, so many people were bragging that they had canceled their Washington Post subscriptions. Now those same people or the same demographic are lamenting that it laid off journalists. Which is sad for us in this area because the Washington Post is our local paper.

To the credit of local news stations, I can’t remember who, but it was mentioned in local news when it first started. But the attention it received was negligent. It was mentioned last night on national news. It’s getting the attention now, but my mind is blown that it had not received much attention prior.

For some unknown reason, a large portion of the parents of my children's friends in Alexandria are all journalists at respected publications that you'd recognize. They all threw hissy fits when Kamala didn't get the endorsement and rage canceled their subscriptions in very public fashion. Then, last month they all posted about how horrific the lay offs were. Not a scintilla of irony was notice by one of them.

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Nobody will be held accountable, nobody will be fired, nobody will be jailed, everyone still collects their fat pensions for a career of “service” and the contracts will still get steered to connected insiders.

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Anonymous wrote:The broken part of the line is in a national (federal) park. I am sure DC can't just roll up and start digging without federal input. DC is also far from autonomous. Did you miss the mess last year where DC couldn't spend it's OWN money on budgeted item due to federal interference? Take a seat.

I am sure DC Water can do just that. They have an easement or MOA in place to allow for maintenance.

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I thought it was illegal to hold two government jobs at the same time?

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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*

Reminds me of before Detroit's bankruptcy, there was a Big 4 accounting study done on their water department. Headcount was bloated by something like 2,000+ unnecessary workers at an average of $85,000 a year, plus full pension and lifetime health care after 20 years. The accounting firm struggled to get those 2,000+ workers to detail what exactly they did all day. And of course no-show ghost employees nobody had seen in years, if ever.

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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*

Reminds me of before Detroit's bankruptcy, there was a Big 4 accounting study done on their water department. Headcount was bloated by something like 2,000+ unnecessary workers at an average of $85,000 a year, plus full pension and lifetime health care after 20 years. The accounting firm struggled to get those 2,000+ workers to detail what exactly they did all day. And of course no-show ghost employees nobody had seen in years, if ever.

But you *need* water, so you can't question them.

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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