In January, part of a decades-old sewer line in Maryland collapsed by the Potomac River. Over the following days, the broken pipe dumped more than 200 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac ...

An ecological crisis of "historic proportion" is underway in the Potomac River after a massive sewer pipe collapse north of Washington, D.C., the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. The ...

CABIN JOHN, MD – When a collapsed pipe began spewing millions of gallons of sewage into the beloved waterways near the tight-knit community of Cabin John, word spread like wildfire. So did the smell.

Nearly a month after a wastewater spill into the Potomac River began, recovery efforts are ongoing. The spillage, which resulted from a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line collapsing last ...

CABIN JOHN, Maryland – One of the largest sewage spills in U.S. history has turned into a political fight between the federal government and local officials. A sewage line recently collapsed in the ...

A sewer line breach in Maryland last month sent millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River, posing potential serious public health risks. The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) said the ...

A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for the contamination on Monday. By Scott Dance Maxine Joselow and Eric Niiler ...

D.C. Water is touting new pumping capacity and a third active flume as signs of progress at the site of the massive Potomac sewer pipe break, even as the utility warns the threat of another overflow ...

DC Water says the underground sewer line that burst and began spewing wastewater into the Potomac River four weeks ago could take another 10 months to repair. Although DC Water crews continue to ...

D.C. Water says new high-capacity bypass pumps are expected to arrive Friday at the site of last month’s sewer pipe break that has poured millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River.

Three weeks ago, a collapse of the Potomac Interceptor pipe launched hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River, contaminating waterways and thrusting the concept of “poop ...

About 40 million gallons of untreated sewage a day has spilled into the river since a pipeline ruptured in Montgomery County, Md., on Monday, according to a utility company. By Mark Walker Crews ...