The administration of D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser hopes the move will free up federal funds to reimburse local authorities for repair and recovery costs.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared a local public emergency as the city continues responding to the massive Potomac River ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says her public emergency declaration over the Potomac River sewer spill, nearly a month after the pipeline collapse, would not have sped up the response from DC Water. On ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a local public emergency and requested federal emergency assistance on Wednesday evening ...

Mayor Bowser has declared local public emergency regarding the sewage spill in the Potomac River to secure federal support to respond to the disaster.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared an emergency and requested that President Donald Trump provide federal resources to help the city fight a sewage system leak that has dumped millions ...

Amid an ongoing ecological crisis in the wake of the Potomac interceptor failure, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declares a State of ...

Bowser’s order comes as over 250 million gallons of wastewater has spilled into the Potomac River, heightening bacteria levels.

WASHINGTON - D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared a local public emergency as the city continues responding to the massive Potomac River sewage spill, a move that comes the same week President Donald ...