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Trump Deploys FEMA to Clean Up Potomac River After Historic 300-Million-Gallon Sewage Spill

via Washington Examiner·5d ago·3 sources

President Trump directed federal authorities and activated FEMA to address a massive wastewater spill in the Potomac River, calling local Democratic leaders 'incompetent.' The spill, which began January 19 when a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line in Montgomery County, Maryland collapsed, has discharged an estimated 300 million gallons of sewage into the iconic river — making it the largest such spill in U.S. history. The federal intervention comes nearly a month after the breach began and sets up a political clash between the administration and regional officials over responsibility for aging infrastructure.

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Trump sends feds to clean up Potomac River sewage spill

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Trump directs federal authorities to protect Potomac

Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.

Ezekiel 47:9

Ezekiel's vision of a river that brings life wherever it flows is the opposite of what the Potomac has become. When a river that should sustain a capital city instead carries poison, it is a call to stewardship — and a reminder that restoration, both physical and spiritual, is God's business.

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