‘This One Will Trickle Down’: Va. Lawmaker Pushes for Water Testing in Potomac River Sewage Spill

On the site of the Potomac sewage line rupture that drew Trump's ire

A worker from DC Water uses a shovel to remove rocks that fell into the collapsed section of the Potomac Interceptor sewage pipe. Workers must remove the debris before a replacement section of pipe can be installed. (Photo by Christine Condon/Maryland Matters)At the site of one of the worst sewage leaks in the nation’s recent history, a spill President Donald Trump called “a massive Ecological Disaster,” things had reached a state of relative ca…

Elevated E. coli, staph still detected in Potomac river 4 weeks after sewage spill

Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River just north of Washington, D.C., the latest water testing results from the University of Maryland School of Public Health continue to show high levels of E. coli and S. aureus — commonly called staph, including antibiotic-resistant MRSA.

‘This one will trickle down’: Va. lawmaker pushes for water testing in Potomac River sewage spill

After a decrepit pipe burst in Maryland last month and sent hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage spewing into the Potomac River, a Virginia lawmaker is now urging the state’s health department to take concrete steps to address the environmental disaster’s potential health risks to residents. “This one will trickle down over time, and I’m very worried about the contamination as it goes,” Sen. Richard Stuart, R-King George, said in an int…

Morano on Real America’s Voice TV on THE POO-TOMAC RIVER: LARGEST SEWAGE SPILL IN THE US – ‘Infrastructure has been grossly neglected in the US…One simple reason. Climate change has hijacked the entire environmental movement’

THE POO-TOMAC RIVER: LARGEST SEWAGE SPILL IN THE US “Infrastructure has been grossly neglected in the US…One simple reason. Climate change has hijacked the entire environmental movement….This is wh…

MRSA and E. coli detected weeks after Potomac sewage spill

Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River just north of Washington, D.C., the latest water testing results from the University of Maryland School of Public Health continue to show high levels of E. coli and S. aureus – commonly called staph, including antibiotic-resistant MRSA.

Permanent Fix For Huge Sewage Spill Into Potomac River Still Months Away - The BayNet

Potomac Riverkeeper Dean Naujoks collects a water sample after a pipe collapse  near the District of Columbia on Jan. 19, 2026, sent a huge flow of raw sewage into the river. (Courtesy of Potomac Riverkeeper Network) One of the largest wastewater spills in U.S. history continues to unfold along the Potomac River just upstream from the District of Columbia, transforming the “Nation’s River” into an open sewer. Hundreds of millions of gallons of r…