D.C. CESSPOOL: Broken Sewer Pipe Floods Potomac with 250 Million Gallons of Raw Waste — Toilet Paper and All
They told us to "drain the swamp" — turns out the swamp is draining itself, right into the Potomac River. Since January 19, a collapsed six-foot concrete sewer pipe near the Capital Beltway and Clara Barton Parkway has dumped nearly 250 million gallons of raw sewage into the waterway that flows past the monuments, past the Capitol, and past the very government buildings where our leaders run the most powerful nation on earth. We're talking untreated wastewater — complete with E. coli, staph bacteria, toilet paper, and...