The Potomac sewage spill is devastating — it’s also disturbingly common

There was an astounding sentence in the Feb. 23 Metro article “An island unto itself” about Minnie’s Island: “In a normal year, about 600 million gallons of sewage are dumped into the Potomac River.” As devastating as the recent Potomac sewage spill is, the more painful truth is that it is common....

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