A broken pipe sent a gusher of sewage into the river near Washington. Some people may try to row, sail or fish. But skeptics are steering clear.

President Donald Trump has approved emergency assistance to Washington, D.C., to help the city address a sewage system leak that dumped at least 250 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac ...

Nearly a month after a wastewater spill into the Potomac River began, recovery efforts are ongoing. The spillage, which resulted from a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line collapsing last ...

D.C. Water is in the midst of a cleanup effort after a 72-inch section of the Potomac Interceptor, a sanitary sewer system that transports roughly 60 million gallons of wastewater daily, collapsed ...