A Potomac island was their haven. A sewage spill made it unreachable.
- Posted on February 23, 2026
- By Washington Post
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A Potomac island was their haven. A sewage spill made it unreachable.

A dedicated group had turned a small, overgrown island on the Potomac River into a place of community use before hundreds of millions of gallons of sewage spilled into the water.