Saturday’s swim would have been the first legally sanctioned dip into the Anacostia River in more than half a century.
Part of that work included the Anacostia River Tunnel, which opened in 2018 and now captures up to 90 percent of sewage overflow. Strong rainfall, however, can still upset the system.“The common rule of thumb is you do not want to touch an urban waterway within 72 hours of storm events,” Trey Sherard, the lead advocate at the Anacostia Riverkeeper, the nonprofit behind community engagement with the river, told The Washington Post last month. “Storms are what drive leaks.
Later this summer, construction will be complete on a new section of the tunnel system as part of the Clean Rivers Project. Once in place, the system will control 98 percent of overflow sewage, according to the Anacostia Riverkeeper and DOEE. “Water quality has significantly improved over the past few decades,” Anacostia Riverkeeper president Suzy Kelly said in a release announcing the postponement. “We are as close as we have ever been to the possibility of bringing back a swimmable Anacostia.”
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