Kay Perkins

5 days ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Kay Perkins

Share While local water officials monitor drought conditions, and weigh the likelihood of needing to tap water reserves to supplement the Potomac River, more local utility companies are utilizing an age-old method of increasing their backup supply. “Quarries have been used since Roman times to supply water,” said Michael Nardolilli, executive director of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

5 days ago | wtop.com | Kay Perkins |Neal Augenstein

While local water officials monitor drought conditions, and weigh the likelihood of needing to tap water reserves to supplement the Potomac River, more local utility companies are utilizing an age-old method of increasing their backup supply. “Quarries have been used since Roman times to supply water,” said Michael Nardolilli, executive director of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

1 week ago | wtop.com | John Green |Kay Perkins

Outbreaks of measles in the D.C. region and across the U.S. have been making the news, but this April on Capitol Hill, activists called attention to the deadliest infectious disease in the world — tuberculosis. Yes, tuberculosis is still around, and it’s killing more than 1.25 million people each year, according to the World Health Organization. Author and tuberculosis activist John Green said that’s more than malaria, typhoid and war, combined.

2 weeks ago | wtop.com | Kay Perkins

Former Prince George County Fire Chief Benjamin Barksdale has died. He spent eight years with Prince George’s County Fire and EMS before retiring in 2019. He was chief of the department for the last two years before he retired. Be advised. Multi-jurisdictional honors motorcade transporting former PGFD Fire Chief Benjamin Barksdale to start approximately 0900. Motorcade will travel Route 1 from Virginia to OL of 495 and then to Branch Ave in Clinton.

3 weeks ago | wtop.com | Kay Perkins |Luke Lukert

Maryland authorities are beginning a new phase of their plan to improve the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. In a statement released Monday, the Maryland Transportation Authority detailed these early plans as it responded to recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board. In late March, the NTSB criticized MDTA’s failure to contact safety inspections that the board said could have flagged vulnerabilities with the Francis Scott Key Bridge before its collapse last year.