An ecological crisis of "historic proportion" is underway in the Potomac River after a massive sewer pipe collapse north of Washington, D.C., the U.S.

Arlington Department of Environmental Services (ADES) said this week that county drinking water was safe, despite the huge sewage spill in the Potomac River that

D.C. mayor says DC Water's response to the Potomac spill has been urgent from the start, but says she is now seeking federal aid to help recoup costs and avoid passing the burden to ratepayers.

FNC's Peter Doocy asked the White House on Wednesday whether the president is worried that by the country's 250th anniversary celebration this summer, the Potomac River will still "smell like poop." Read more: So There’s 300 Million Gallons of Poop Water in the Potomac River "He is worried about that,

President Donald Trump has called for federal intervention as a major ecological catastrophe unfolds in the Potomac River, triggered by a sewage line breach in Maryland. Trump took to Truth Social late Monday and called the sewage spill “a massive Ecological Disaster.