DC Water, a local water utility, said on Feb. 6 that roughly 194 million gallons overflowed from the collapse site in the first five days after the incident, with about 49 million gallons overflowing in the time since. The utility noted that the estimated peak discharge of wastewater, roughly 40 million gallons per day, accounts for about 2 percent of the Potomac’s total flow during the period.

But the Potomac Riverkeeper Network (PRKN), a local environmental advocacy group, estimated on Feb. 5 that the collapse resulted in roughly 300 million gallons discharged into the Potomac to that point. Betsy Nicholas, the president of the PRKN, told The Hill on Monday that estimate was based on data from DC Water regarding how much wastewater flows through the pipe daily.

Nicholas said Dean Naujoks, the Potomac riverkeeper, requested data that DC Water has from software that measures how much water flows through the pipe daily. DC Water turned down his request, though.

Nicholas said Dean Naujoks, the Potomac riverkeeper, requested data that DC Water has from software that measures how much water flows through the pipe daily. DC Water turned down his request, though.

“How do you expect us to figure this out? We don’t have the monitoring of what volume is in your pipes, so the best we can do is look at historic data,” she remarked.

The Hill has reached out to DC Water and the DOEE for further details on the latest spillage data.

It's a good thing the president has maintained a strong EPA to combat this kind of thing.

why do esl shills love AI photos so much

>>1490239
>Nicholas said Dean Naujoks, the Potomac riverkeeper, requested data that DC Water has from software that measures how much water flows through the pipe daily. DC Water turned down his request, though.
>Nicholas said Dean Naujoks, the Potomac riverkeeper, requested data that DC Water has from software that measures how much water flows through the pipe daily. DC Water turned down his request, though.
Do better on your selective editing next time, shill

>>1490243
>>1490245
Go back to Kansas, Dorothy.
>>1490238
A sewer broke, but I had to read halfway into your post before I learned that. You made it sound like democrats broke it on purpose...

This article might fit the board's 48 hour rule, but the event happened 1/19.

All this article adds is that E. coli levels have returned to acceptable levels as of 2/5.

This is old news, and the only recent update (over a week ago) to it is that the major concern is over.

/Thread

>>1490245
Nicholas said Dean Naujoks, the Potomac riverkeeper, requested data that DC Water has from software that measures how much water flows through the pipe daily. DC Water turned down his request, though.

>>1490270
>You made it sound like democrats broke it on purpose...
They did

>>1490307
>Sewer collapses
>It's (the party I don't like)! They're flooding the rivers with poo!
Ok schizo

>>1490239
>It's 194
>No it's 300
This doesn't seem like a majorly important distinction.

>>1490309
They didn't maintain it because they were too busy laundering money through daycares run by illegal immigrants again.

>>1490311
>Source
>Literally my ass

>>1490319
Who needs a source? Democrats are crooks that hinge their power on people wanting to be 'good people'. The only thing that Dems have going for them is an organized multi-billion dollar propaganda campaign run by literal homosexuals and retards that drank the kool aid.

>>1490321
>Democrats want people to be good and that infuriates me because some of them are gay
You sound closeted ngl

>>1490311
you were doing pretty good until this post. almost plausible at one point.

>>1490238
>Montgomery County
>democrat state
just leave them be pigs should enjoy swimming and drinking filth water.
they'd of done the same if it was a republican state.
trump should stop wasting federal tax dollars on parasites and domestic terrorists

>>1490325
Democratic ocean?

If not, you should still care about waterways and pollution

>>1490238
>Under his leadership, DC Water is delivering on its $2.7 billion commitment to build a massive system of deep tunnels and other infrastructure to nearly eliminate combined sewer overflows to the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and Rock Creek in the nation’s capital.
>The spillage, which resulted from a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line collapsing last month
Yeah maybe this is why he's trying to eliminate overflows you fucking moron.

>>1490335
Who pissed in your cheerios

>>1490242
>it's okay for us to flood shit everywhere because Trump removed CO2 emission caps on industry

>>1490321
>Just trust me bro
>*Sips thick ropey cum*

Grim

>>1490335
This wasn't an overflow though. This was one of these sewage tunnels rupturing.
Re-read your own greentext

Suddenly everyones a civil engineer grade plumber

>>1490354
Did the article refer to it as an "overflow" or a "line collapse"?
Nobody here needs a civil engineering degree to discern that, just a pair of working eyeballs and some basic English literacy

>>1490355
Buddy I am a civil engineer and boy do I have news for you
An overflow when unintended is one type of the types of system collapse

>>1490352
Retard an overflow is when sewage from a sewer line spills out of said line into rivers or streets. They're not supposed to do that, and if they do it's usually because something collapsed or broke.

>>1490359
>>1490356
>An overflow *is* a collapse
Well, that doesn't disprove my original statement it actually supports it, this guy was hired for the sole purpose to stop this sort of "overflow"/"line collapsing"

>>1490359
Huh a quick Google search yields that you have no idea what the hell you're talking about and you're just inventing meanings for words

Overflow = sewage exits the system because capacity is exceeded or flow is blocked — even if the pipe itself is intact
Common types:
Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)
Happens in older systems where stormwater + sewage share one pipe. Heavy rain overwhelms capacity and excess is discharged into rivers by design.
Example: DC Water manages a combined system in parts of Washington, DC.
Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO)
Occurs in separate systems when blockages, pump failures, or infiltration cause backups and spills.

Line collapse = structural failure of the pipe itself.
Causes:
Aging infrastructure
Corrosion
Ground shifting
Tree root intrusion
Poor installation

>literally making the DC metro area eat shit
Uhh, based?!

>>1490238
>A recently resurfaced clip of DC Water’s CEO and General Manager has shown the agency head saying that the majority of higher-ups at the utility company that serves Washington, DC, were white men, despite the majority of workers being people of color. This comes as the Potomac River has been hit with a sewage spill, resulting in over 200 million gallons of wastewater leaking into the river.

>Gadis said that when he joined DC Water in 2018, "this was an organization that looked very similar to our industry. It was predominantly, you know, white male at the top, but this was a utility that’s, you know, more than 70 percent people of color work at this utility. And I really believe, and I still believe, and it has been fantastic. The outcomes have been fantastic."

>"But the people at the top, the executives, the chiefs in that C suite, they should look like the employees that they serve and that they work with, and the same thing with the community. And so my executive team, you know, looks exactly like the community. It looks like it, looks like the employees, the staff, you know, be it people of color, women, men, and it is, it’s just a fantastic team that has come together to do a lot of great things here at DC Water and in the community for the customers."

LMAO D.C. is now South Africa.