………More than 240 million gallons of sewage have entered the Potomac River. And counting. That’s by far the largest sewage spill in American history. And although the pipe burst in Maryland, the D.C. Water Department owns the pipe that’s affected, and they’re responsible for containing it.
So how big of a disaster is this? For comparison, during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, around 140 million gallons of oil were released into the Gulf. So the scale of Deepwater Horizon was a lot smaller. And they had movies and congressional hearings about that one.
By contrast, the situation in D.C. isn’t attracting very much attention at all. And local officials aren’t doing much, either. The sewage is just flowing directly into the water, as you can see. And although it’s too early to know exactly what happened here, there’s reason to believe — if you can imagine — that government incompetence is the direct cause of the disaster that’s unfolding.
As the account “NOVA Campaigns” has pointed out:
“What’s going unreported is that the Potomac Interceptor sewage spill – largest in US history – is happening just 1,000 ft down from where [contractors for the DC Water Department] have been rehabilitating the sewer line since September 8, 2025 via the Sliplining process. … The work, which started September 8th, focuses on restoring an 800-foot segment of the sanitary sewer system.”
And one of those contractors, less than a year ago, was reportedly sued by the D.C. government for recklessly contaminating the D.C. waterways. So that’s a little suspicious.
Could this be why a large section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line, which takes sewage to a water treatment plant, just collapsed? Did the D.C. government hire an incompetent contractor — who the D.C. government knew was incompetent — which, in turn, messed up this “sliplining” procedure? Did the pressure, after the new pipe was installed, get too high? Was there some other failure that was involved?
In case you’re not familiar, “sliplining”, according to the D.C. government’s website, involves excavating two holes and inserting large pipe segments into them, which are then pushed into the Potomac interceptor, forming a new pipe. It’s a high-risk procedure that could cause the pipe to fail. And right now, it looks like that’s exactly what happened.
The latest estimates are that the problem won’t be fixed for around six weeks — all because of the incompetence of the D.C. government.
That sounds pretty bad, of course. But it’s important to point out that D.C. has been having sewage problems, long before this incident. Last summer, the city canceled two separate “community swim days” in the Anacostia River, due to sewage problems. Officially, the issue was reported as “pollution concerns” and a high risk of contracting “E Coli” following a rainstorm. The translation, of course, is that every time it rains, poop gets in the water in Washington D.C. This is an ongoing problem.
According to one local observer, quote, “600 million gallons of sewage and runoff flow into the Potomac every year, largely when heavy storms overwhelm D.C.’s aging sewers.”
But the good news is that, as you just heard, according to local officials, the drinking water is definitely, 100% still safe. And you can totally trust the officials in D.C. on that point. After all, from the moment these officials took control of the water department, they were laser-focused on their mission.
……..When you’re hiring personnel at “D.C. Water,” it’s vitally important to have a lot of people who aren’t white. The executives need to “look like” the employees. Because when you’re drinking water out of the tap, or taking a shower, the thing you care about is whether the people who ensured the cleanliness and safety of your water “look like you” or not. And if you get e-coli or some other exotic disease or parasite from the water, you will take solace in the fact that, while you’re puking your guts out, at least there was a sufficient level of diversity over in the water management department.
……..At this point, it’s common knowledge that, in many cases, government employment functions like a jobs program for people who aren’t white. This is one of those things that sounds “offensive” but it’s clearly true, and even Democrats will admit it. If you’ve ever walked into a DMV office, you may have noticed that they typically aren’t very “diverse.” Neither are transit jobs or most administrative jobs in government. And that’s no accident. By and large, non-white people get these jobs, and then they hire other non-white people. And once they get the jobs, they’re basically impossible to fire. This has led to the creation of the so-called “Black middle class.”
Again, Democrats themselves have admitted all of this. To give just one example, USA Today published a headline a year ago that read:
“Federal jobs were seen as a gateway to the middle class for Black America, then came DOGE.”
In other words, taxpayer-funded jobs allowed black people to make a lot of money. But if you try to audit those jobs, and see if these people are actually earning their salaries, then it all falls apart.
One of the reasons this is so unethical — aside from the racial discrimination against whites and Asians — is that it makes society far more unpleasant and much more dangerous. When incompetent people are running major city departments simply because they’re not white, things start to break. That’s what South Africa has been experiencing since they achieved racial equity. And it’s what D.C. is experiencing now.
All of this was predictable.
The article documents comments from Dem DC officials who emphasize skin color over competency, much like themselves.
This is a disaster with E. coli , cholera, typhoid, and a variety of other parasites ready to infect the population.
How’s that DEI working out, Dems?