{"id":652975,"date":"2026-05-19T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/652975\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:47:09","slug":"its-putrid-glen-echo-residents-press-officials-after-potomac-river-sewage-spill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/652975\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s putrid!\u2019: Glen Echo residents press officials after Potomac River sewage spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People affected by the massive raw sewage spill into the Potomac River earlier this year shared ongoing concerns at a public meeting in Glen Echo on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>About 75 people packed Glen Echo Town Hall in person, and more joined online. Many did not give their names but raised a range of concerns.<\/p>\n<p>One man described the lingering smell of sewage: \u201cI always open the window and it\u2019s putrid!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hometown river deserves better and our communities do as well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman raised a similar concern: \u201cIt\u2019s really bad. I\u2019m smelling it from my car on Clara Barton and on the bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2026\/05\/glenn-echo-residents-express-concerns-about-the-potomac-sewage-spill\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2026\/05\/glenn-echo-residents-express-concerns-about-the-potomac-sewage-spill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":"People affected by the massive raw sewage spill into the Potomac River earlier this year shared ongoing concerns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,3,79],"class_list":["post-652975","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\/652975","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=652975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}