Key Highlights
- President Donald Trump ordered an all-of-government effort to protect the District of Columbia’s water supply and slammed Maryland Gov.
- Wes Moore as a sewage pipe interceptor rupture in Cabin John has released an estimated 240 million gallons into the Potomac River.
- The break was first noticed on security cameras off the Clara Barton Parkway just north of the District line Jan.
- 19, and within several days, crews from DC Water were able to segregate much of the spill into the paralleling Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, according to local reports. The pipe takes wastewater from several towns in the John F.
- Dulles International Airport area all the way to Washington, where it is processed farther downstream at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Anacostia, D. C.
