US EditionClass Action Lawsuit Filed Against DC Water Following Potomac River Sewage Spill
The lawsuit alleges DC Water neglected maintenance and safety, causing a 243 million-gallon sewage spill that harmed property owners and businesses along the Potomac River.
- On Thursday, the Virginia Department of Health lifted the recreational-water advisory from Route 120 Chain Bridge to the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge, and DC Water lifted its advisory near the district earlier this week.
- Following the Jan. 19 collapse of a 72-inch section of the Potomac Interceptor, Virginia Department of Health issued an advisory on Feb. 13 after about 243 million gallons spilled into the river.
- Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's late-February sampling found bacteria safe for swimming except a 4.7 miles stretch still under advisory, while Potomac Riverkeeper Network said E.coli is diminishing.
- Local fishing operators report immediate business losses as Anthony Cubbage of Atomic Fishing Charters lost $5,000 in February while Maryland Health Department shellfish closure remains from the spill site to the Nice Bridge.
- DC Water is managing repairs and diverting sewage into a canal as a temporary measure while contract crews remove boulders to replace the pipe, and advocates urge summer testing as agencies aggregate results.
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Human waste backing up in basements is a gut-churning sign of U.S. infrastructure problems
The January collapse of a pipe as wide as a car dumped so much sewage into the Potomac River that officials tracked a spike of gut-wrenching bacteria drifting slowly past Washington for weeks, prompting an emergency declaration and federal assistance.
District Links: DC Water faces new class action lawsuit over Potomac sewage spill; DC Bar files disciplinary case against DOJ’s Ed Martin; and more
Even as DC Water says emergency repairs to the Potomac Interceptor are nearly complete, a new class action lawsuit seeks damages for the utility’s alleged failure to safeguard against the January pipe collapse that sent sewage spilling into the Potomac River.
LA PLATA.– The contamination in the water system of the Río de la Plata is “aberrant.” It is unequivocally “a sink of sewage and industrial waste.” This was emphasized by the Federal Justice of this capital by blocking a multimillion dollar embargo against the governorship of Buenos Aires for delays in implementing a project for the treatment and final disposition of sewage fluids in the three cities that make up the capital region: La Plata, Be…
The Billings Gazette
Beyond the Potomac, sewage spills threaten cities with old infrastructure and little funds
After 244 million gallons of sewage spilled into the Potomac, attention turned to Baltimore and other cities struggling with failing sewer systems.
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