Massive Potomac sewage spill could take months to clean up
NBC News·2026-02-18 00:24
The river George Washington called the nation's river is tonight off limits and contaminated after a 60-year-old sewage line in Maryland broke open last month, spewing more than 240 million gallons of raw waste into the river. The same river that flows past the Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Memorial and used by Boers, kayakers, high school and college rowing teams. >> So you can see some of the toilet paper and the sewage up on the banks there.River keeper Dean Nyuks says the stench and environmental damag ...