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Courtesy of Adam Turi / An overflowing toilet flooded a Harbin boys’ cluster with sewage, destroying the belongings of 18 residents Nov 11 for the third time in seven weeks.

Harbin Floods With Sewage Water for Third Time

By Ajani Stella, Staff Writer November 22, 2024

An overflowing toilet flooded Harbin Hall’s third floor with sewage Nov. 11, filling rooms and destroying residents’ belongings for the third time in seven weeks. The 18 residents of a boys’ cluster,...

Kate Hwang/The Hoya |  GU sophomores Peter Sloniewsky (CAS ’27) and Knox Graham (SFS ’27) were elected to Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) Nov. 5 and will assume office Jan. 2.

Harbin Floor Floods With Sewage Water

By Ajani Stella, Staff Writer November 8, 2024

An overflowing toilet flooded Harbin Hall’s third floor with sewage water Oct. 27, destroying residents’ belongings and leaking onto the second floor, less than four weeks after a similar incident...

RIVERS: Safeguard the Health of D.C.'s Waterways

RIVERS: Safeguard the Health of D.C.’s Waterways

By Grace Rivers March 25, 2023

Rising precipitation rates resulting from climate change have exacerbated a decades-old problem in Washington, D.C.: sewage runoff making its way into the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Heavy rains...

To Save, DC Water Plant Embraces Waste

By Maddy Moore April 15, 2014

In order to conserve energy and cleanly generate power, D.C. Water plans to get dirty this summer by embracing sewage. The water utility’s plant proposal involves converting all waste from the surrounding...

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