Starting Jan. 1, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission is beginning a program that officials hope will prevent the types of major sewage system overflows that littered Montgomery County on Christmas morning.

In that incident, cooking grease dumped down drains and into the sewage system reportedly caused 151 gallons of wastewater to spill into a storm drain that empties into Rock Creek.

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