Anonymous
Post 02/25/2026 10:40     Subject: Potomac River Spill Affecting Camps
Anonymous wrote:By summer the poop from the interceptor break will be far downriver. It will just be a usual summer with the regular e coli spikes after big rainstorms. If you were ok with your kid kayaking in that before, it won't be any different.


Instead of making easy assumptions, we should keep testing regularly and camps should make contingency plans now.
Anonymous
Post 02/25/2026 10:38     Subject: Potomac River Spill Affecting Camps
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well I wonder what cavella camp will do, and I wonder where parents can check potomac river or nearby water quality.


Did you look at a map? That's way upstream of the break. The Potomac is not tidal above the falls.


My kid signs up for kayaking camp this summer at cavella, thought they will kayak all along the river.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 14:44     Subject: Potomac River Spill Affecting Camps
Anonymous wrote:Well I wonder what cavella camp will do, and I wonder where parents can check potomac river or nearby water quality.


Did you look at a map? That's way upstream of the break. The Potomac is not tidal above the falls.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 14:22     Subject: Potomac River Spill Affecting Camps
Anonymous wrote:Well I wonder what cavella camp will do, and I wonder where parents can check potomac river or nearby water quality.


DC water https://www.dcwater.com/about-dc-water/media/news/update-potomac-interceptor-collapse-february-20 also DC doee, its Maryland counterpart, and Potomac Riverkeeper network
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 14:18     Subject: Potomac River Spill Affecting Camps
By summer the poop from the interceptor break will be far downriver. It will just be a usual summer with the regular e coli spikes after big rainstorms. If you were ok with your kid kayaking in that before, it won't be any different.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 14:11     Subject: Potomac River Spill Affecting Camps
Yes, no kids kayaking on the river this summer. Gross.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 14:10     Subject: Potomac River Spill Affecting Camps
Well I wonder what cavella camp will do, and I wonder where parents can check potomac river or nearby water quality.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 10:41     Subject: Potomac River Spill Affecting Camps
Has anyone heard from any of the summer DC area camps on how the spill will affect summer camp?