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The Potomac is facing more than rough waters after a sewage spill near Lockhouse 10 sent E. coli levels soaring far beyond safe limits in Washington, D.C., with new testing revealing contamination thousands of times higher than what’s considered safe for human contact. Lockhouse 10 is a historic canal lock and restored lockkeeper’s house along the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal, originally used to manage boat traffic on the 19th-century canal and now preserved as a quiet historic site about five miles from the heart of Washington, D.C. The Potomac Riverkeeper Network (PRKN) released test results from contaminated water along...

Headaches, rashes, infections, breathing problems. An increasing number of U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Imperial Beach station have reported a host of health problems since February, when an estimated 143 million gallons of Mexican sewage spilled into the Tijuana River Valley they patrol.

Three to four inches fall in areas hardest hit By Monica Polanco and Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, April 7, 2004 Some parts of Central Texas received as much as 4 inches of rain Tuesday during a storm that was blamed for a raw sewage spill in Austin and that may have caused a fatal wreck in Leander. An area of stalled low pressure over New Mexico started moving Monday night, causing a large area of rain and thunderstorms over West Texas. The storm then moved east, dumping 3 1/2 inches of rain in Round Rock, more than 2 inches...