A Potomac island was their haven. A sewage spill made it unreachable.

The easiest way to reach Minnie’s Island is to paddle in a canoe through a small channel between two mounds of sediment in the Potomac River. “That’s the magic portal to the island,” Carolyn Finney said with a kind of wonder in her voice, standing on the C&O Canal and looking out across the water o...

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