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Class 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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Virginia boater suing Washington utility for Potomac River sewage spill
A Virginia boater is suing a Washington water utility for negligence in the collapse of a pipe that leaked millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River. The class action lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland comes weeks after a January sewage pipe collapse, shooting wastewater out of the ground and into the river in an area just north of Washington, D.C. The spill is seen as a serious environmental blight…
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