{"id":504326,"date":"2026-03-05T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504326\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:56:10","slug":"cleanup-begins-along-the-co-canal-but-rain-slows-early-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504326\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleanup begins along the C&#038;O Canal, but rain slows early work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain slowed down D.C. Water\u2019s environmental restoration work Tuesday along the C&amp;O Canal and Potomac River, but cleanup efforts are well underway after January\u2019s massive sewage spill.<\/p>\n<p>A special use permit issued by the National Park Service over the weekend cleared the way for D.C. Water to launch the first phase of its environmental restoration plan.<\/p>\n<p>During a tour of the site, Sherri Lewis with D.C. Water pointed out areas where contaminated soil and debris had already been removed and showed the fencing put in place to keep material from washing back into the drainage channel.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/montgomery-county\/2026\/03\/cleanup-begins-along-the-co-canal-after-sewer-overflow-but-rain-slows-early-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WTOP.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article was written by Bethesda Today\u2019s partner WTOP News and republished with permission.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/newsletters-signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for WTOP\u2019s breaking news, traffic and weather alerts and emails<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rain slowed down D.C. Water\u2019s environmental restoration work Tuesday along the C&amp;O Canal and Potomac River, but cleanup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,3,79],"class_list":["post-504326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}