Piscataway Creek has been poisoned again – where is the accountability?

Residents near Piscataway Creek have had to cope with contamination before from Joint Base Andrews, write Dean Naujoks and Staci Hartwell, and they deserve transparency and accountability in response to the latest incident, a spill of thousands of gallons of jet fuel.

By: Dean Naujoks, Staci Hartwell

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: June 10, 2026

Words: 743

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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More than 6 million people across Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., rely on the Potomac River for drinking water. Recently, into one of its tributaries, Piscataway Creek, approximately 32,000 gallons of jet fuel, roughly the equivalent of an entire fuel tanker truck or three Boeing 737s, reportedly leaked from Joint Base Andrews from January until the full scale of the spill became publicly known last month.

The contamination comes on top of …

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