via DCist
Almost 25 years ago, a coalition of local environmental
groups filed a lawsuit against DC Water for allowing billions of
gallons of untreated sewage to spill into the District’s rivers. Now,
work is complete on a massive system of tunnels that will prevent 98%
of sewer overflows into the Anacostia River — a major step in the
ongoing restoration of the river.
“This
is just a huge milestone,” says DC Water’s Moussa Wone, who is in
charge of the project. “This river was really very, very, very
impaired.”
On
Friday, DC Water put in service the system’s final segment, the
Northeast Boundary Tunnel, connecting it with an earlier phase of the
project that went online in 2018.
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