sewage
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After the spill, the utility diverted more than two billion gallons of raw sewage to the nearly 200-year-old Chesapeake and Ohio canal to avoid more releases into the Potomac.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
In January, a 72-inch diameter pipe ruptured, spewing 243 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River in one of the worst wastewater spills in U.S. history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Posters placed along the County Antrim coast telling people not to go into Belfast Lough, due to "raw sewage" have not been placed by a Stormont department and are "misleading", a minister has said.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
They frequently appear in wastewater and can end up in biosolid fertilizer, also called sewage sludge, which is produced during wastewater treatment.
From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026
That across rivers of sewage and blood will be a field of yellow flowers blooming.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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