Ryman Hospitality Group Inc., of Nashville, Tenn., the owner of the 2,000-room Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor, said Thursday that it received word from the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission that the water crisis affecting southern Prince George’s County has been averted.

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OXON HILL — Water officials in Maryland knew that they may have averted a crisis that threatened to leave hundreds of thousands of people without water for days, but they kept mum for hours to ensure their fix worked. Water ...

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OXON HILL — Hundreds of thousands of people in suburban Washington are sweating through a punishing heat wave under orders to avoid long showers, turn off sprinklers and think twice about flushing the toilet. Carwashes, day care centers and fast-food ...

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OXON HILL — Several southern Prince George’s County communities — including Joint Base Andrews and National Harbor — are being urged to stock up on water ahead of a pipeline repair will leave them without water for days just as ...

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Despite a report from the city’s audit department that called for lower increases and protests from a packed room of residents about a lack of collection of $25 million in delinquent water bills, the Board of Estimates, Baltimore’s spending board. voted Wednesday to approve a three consecutive years of rate hikes for city water and sewage bills.

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Leo W. Burroughs Jr. called Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young and other top city officials “cowardly” in response to a plan to hike water rates in Baltimore by 37 percent over the next three years.

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LAUREL — Washington’s Maryland suburbs have 350 miles of large concrete water pipes that are prone to exploding without warning, an inventory that’s second only to Detroit’s among major utilities, a newspaper has found. The Washington Post reviewed 21 large ...

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Since construction ended on the Conowingo Dam in 1928, it has been the best management practice to prevent sediment flow into the Chesapeake Bay from the Susquehanna River, said Bob Judge, spokesman for Exelon.

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WASHINGTON — A new study finds climate change could cut stream flows in the Potomac River basin, a major source of drinking water in the Washington region. The study found by 2040 climate change could cut stream flows 35 percent. ...

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The Maryland Department of the Environment says Philadelphia-based Sunoco and a suburban Washington water utility have been fined for alleged violations. The department says the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission paid $55,925 for sewer overflows in 2011. The 163 overflows totaled ...

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