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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC Water has also had horrendously high charges for years, with DC residents bearing the financial responsibility for the utility's overly bloated payroll and massive projects to rid the Anacostia and Potomac rivers of toxic sewage. [/quote]

All of the states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are required by a court order to clean up the bay and DC is meeting its requirements by building a separate sewage system which keeps untreated sewage out of the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers - almost all cities built their water systems this way but DC has one of the oldest municipal sewer systems in the US and it was never upgraded.

DC embarked on this project 20 years ago as soon as the court order was issued and will mostly be done and meeting their obligations by 2030 which in the long run will save DC a lot of money.

Oh and the water quality in the Anacostia has already improved dramatically to the point where it will soon be safe to eat fish from the Anacostia and swim in it for the first time in 150 years and the water quality in the Potomac down river of the Anacostia has already improved and soon will be improving up river as well.

And FWIW this project has eliminated sewer back ups and localized flooding in a bunch of EOTP neighborhoods so overall a really worthwhile project for the District.[/quote]

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