Prince George's County 2020 Snow Summit

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Southern K-8 School Construction Site Logistics

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Conservancy of Broad Creek - message from the President

What’s Really in Your Bottled Water?

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• CR recently tested 47 bottled waters, including 35 noncarbonated and 12 carbonated ones. For each product, we tested two to four samples. The tests focused on four heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury), plus 30 PFAS chemicals, which pose special concerns because they can linger in the environment almost indefinitely.
• Consumer Reports found toxic PFAS chemicals in several popular water brands, especially carbonated ones.

K-8 Townhall Webinar - Jan 21st

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Meals by Mama Lois at National Golf Club

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Water & Sewer Line Warranties

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• Bottom line: Even if you own a house for decades, your odds of having a catastrophic water- or sewer-line failure are quite low.
• While They Seem Affordable, These Plans Are Wildly Overpriced
• Claims data from an interoffice memo obtained by Checkbook regarding the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission’s partnership with HomeServe indicated that only 4,450 exterior water and sewer claims were made from the 126,207 plans purchased during the program’s first two-and-a-half years, an annualized incidence rate of 1.4 percent.
• During HomeServe’s partnership with WSSC, claims for sewer line repairs also averaged just $580; the average was $1,565 for water line claims.
• The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority evaluated these programs and decided not to participate because the plans were “not in the best interest” of customers.

Tributaries of Swan Creek

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From the DoE Clean Water Map