Anacostia River

A new pedestrian and cyclist bridge would fill a gap in access between the Arboretum and the Anacostia Waterfront

Ever wondered just how clean the water is in the Potomac River, the Anacostia or Rock Creek? Starting May 1, it will be a lot easier to find out. An army of volunteers will be testing the water weekly at nearly two dozen sites, and posting…

As many as 10,000 volunteers are expected to hit the outdoors on Saturday, and they’ll have trash bags in hand. The annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup has been a spring tradition in the D.C. area since 1989.

WASHINGTON — Potomac Riverboat Company’s fleet of seven water taxis, including four bright yellow high-speed water taxis added last season, will start running on the Potomac River again this year, starting March 1.

Coffee table books often feature photos of wild, pristine places. But there’s a new coffee table book dedicated to a landscape closer to home — one often not associated with natural beauty. Local photographer Krista Schlyer spent the past…

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A DC Water tunnel helped save the Anacostia River from 4.5 billion gallons of sewage overflow in 2018, DC Water announced Monday.

For a long time, the Anacostia River didn’t even have a name. It was just the Eastern Branch, the other, less promising section of Washington, D.C.’s better known and more distinguished river, the Potomac. But it was always known as a…

The Anacostia River used to be a dumping ground for Washington’s trash, sewage and industrial waste. Now there’s a massive cleanup effort, and the city has declared 2018 “the year of the Anacostia.” But for D.C. musician Brent Peterson, the…

The Anacostia River was supposed to get a lot cleaner this past summer, after DC Water completed a major new sewer tunnel. But water testing shows bacteria counts were, in some cases, higher in the summer of 2018 compared to 2017.

WASHINGTON — The 7-mile stretch of the Anacostia River Tunnel project that’s been completed has surpassed expectations so far, and with more rain in the forecast, it may be put to the test this week. John Lisle, chief of marketing and…

The owners and occupants of a property in Northeast D.C. have violated city environmental laws repeatedly by spilling oil into neighborhood streets and threatening local waterways for the past 10 years, according to a lawsuit Attorney…

The reasons why you can’t safely or legally swim in the District’s rivers could be resolved within the next several years — a concrete milestone for clean rivers which until recently seemed difficult to envision. This would open new outdoor…

If you've got 5,600 freshwater mussels, you could serve about 280 steaming plates of moules marinières. Or, you could deposit the bivalves in the Anacostia River. The Anacostia Watershed Society has opted for the latter as part of a larger…