The Potomac Sewage Spill Is a Disaster

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Don't touch the Potomac. That's D.C.'s message nearly a month after a sewer pipe collapse sent millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.

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Hysterical. A National Park Service pipeline pollutes the Potomac, and Trump throws a tantrum and blame it on the governor of Maryland.

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-- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) Feb 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM

The internet was quick to correct President Donald Trump on Monday after he blasted Maryland's Democratic governor over a sewage spill in the Potomac River, then was mocked for lying about it.

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-- Raw Story (@rawstory.com) Feb 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM

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Lets break it down ....

The failure of the sewage system in DC has dumped around 200-300 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill was 11 million gallons.
That means that there has been 27.7 Exxon Valdez spills.

Another way to look at it, a John Lewis class Navy oiler can carry 5.5/6.5 million gallons of fuel. Let's call that 6 million gallons.
What we are looking at is 50 John Lewis class oilers dumping a full load of sewage in the waters around the nation's capital.

Fascinating while complaining about cutting back EPA rules that didn't have much affect, this whole episode is dropped on the floor.
Why have lumpers moved on from the environment?

Why does California also have this same issue in San Diego?
today.ucsd.edu

#1 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-16 12:39 PM | Reply

Fascinating while complaining about cutting back EPA rules *that didn't have much affect, this whole episode is dropped on the floor.

Why have lumpers moved on from the environment?
Why does California also have this same issue in San Diego?

There you go agin Commie Spugeboy. Digging in America's ----.

Being a new commie spy here you may not know that you haven't earned that right. And apparently you are not yet aware of the old American saying ...

"---- Happens!"

*BTW - Since 1970, the Clean Air Act ( as administered by the EPA) has dramatically reduced air pollution, including a 74% drop in hazardous air pollutants from large industrial facilities between 1990 and 2017.

GFY commie spy. (Obligatory)

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-16 12:55 PM | Reply

"EPA rules *that didn't have much affect"

Riiiiiiiight.

In 1967, I visited Los Angeles for the first time, a few months after the first smog regulations were passed. I noticed a very pronounced brown 'ring' around the horizon of the Valley.

Since then, smog regulations have been tightened and updated. And since I began traveling regularly (1-2 times/yr) to LA in the late 80s, I've seen the air quality increase every trip. The brown ring is long gone.

Anyone who tells you the regulations didn't have much "affect" is gaslighting, at best.

#3 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-16 01:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Chumper remains a chump

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-16 03:07 PM | Reply

He thinks Tijuana is San Diego. Good job, dumbass.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-16 03:08 PM | Reply

#3 it's onelumpofs*^%.

No gaslighting, just straight up lying.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 08:30 AM | Reply

Nothing is more MAGA than polluted rivers. This is utopia for MAGA, what they want to see literally everywhere.

#7 | Posted by chuffy at 2026-02-17 07:14 PM | Reply

If I didn't know this was a literal true story, I would have thought it a metaphor for this administration.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-17 07:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Yup, I was thinking the same.

#9 | Posted by bat4255 at 2026-02-17 08:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

only that anal sphincter Trump could blame a sewer pipe break on "bad governance by a democrat."

Amazing.

Our grandchildren are going to read the history accounts and wonder how the insanity of 2016-2028 ever happened.

#10 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-02-17 08:54 PM | Reply

oneIQirony:
Let's flip the script:

how do you know this spill didn't happen because Trump and Musk cut many EPA jobs, including INSPECTORS?

I love a CCP shill trying to effing ballpolish Trump in the name of division.
And Trump writing "FEMA defunded by Democrats" is a laughable and clumsy lie.

#11 | Posted by e1g1 at 2026-02-17 08:57 PM | Reply