![It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-turns-out-this-is-a-metaphor-out-of-charles-dickens-that-the-raw-sewage.jpg)
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