The worst raw sewage spill in the history of the United States. There’s no other way to put it at this point.

On January 19th, a major sewer pipe that brings wastewater into Washington DC collapsed, and raw sewage began pouring into the river just north of the I-495 American Legion bridge by the Clara Barton Parkway. To date over 243 million gallons of raw sewage has made it into the Potomac River, making this the worst ecological disaster of this region and the largest sewage spill in the history of the country.