The Virginia Department of Health has lifted its remaining recreational water advisory for the Potomac River. Today's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A roughly 300 million-gallon sewage spill into the Potomac River — which environmental advocates say rivals the scale of the ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On Tuesday, the D.C. council received its first briefing with DC Water after the massive sewage overflow into the Potomac River. The Potomac Interceptor initially collapsed ...

WASHINGTON — A train crash. A power plant discharge. An underwater pipeline rupture. An act of terrorism. Any of these could quickly cripple the drinking water supply of the nation’s capital. And ...

A standing room-only crowd heard from D.C. Water and other officials about the huge Potomac Interceptor sewer spill that resulted in more than 240 million gallons of highly polluted water getting into ...

Officials in the D.C. area have lifted some advisories steering residents away from the Potomac River, nearly two months after a pipe collapsed and spilled more than 240 million gallons of sewage into ...

A roughly 300 million-gallon sewage spill into the Potomac River — which environmental advocates say rivals the scale of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster — could take several more months to fully ...