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It is improving. I've volunteered a couple times now with Groundwork Anacostia, an organization that runs and operates a series of litter traps in some of the streams that feed into the Anacostia. The traps are a series of floating booms with a center trap (see the above link for a picture) that catches debris as is floats down the river (the trap still allows water flow/fish flow). On each of the cleanup projects I worked on, we collected probably 20 or so bags of trash out of the trap and by cleaning the nearby banks. Its daunting, but the river is getting better. The guy from the organization who was with us last time told us they've actually started seeing a few fish in the river again. And we actually saw some baby fish while we were cleaning up. So, improvements are happening, even if slowly.
I wonder why the Anacostia is so much filthier than the Potomac.
Well, the biggest factor, I'd guess is money. The Potomac has all the well to do areas of NW DC on one side and the well to do communities of Northern VA on the other. The Anacostia, on the other hand is located in some of the poorest and most generally neglected parts of DC (wards 5, 7, and 8 and the areas of ward 6 nearest the river have only in the past few years really started to rise in attractiveness). And, further up the Anacostia, Prince George's County isn't well-known for an abundance of resources either.
Well, the biggest factor, I'd guess is money. The Potomac has all the well to do areas of NW DC on one side and the well to do communities of Northern VA on the other. The Anacostia, on the other hand is located in some of the poorest and most generally neglected parts of DC (wards 5, 6, and 7, and the areas of ward 1 nearest the river have only in the past few years really started to rise in attractiveness). And, further up the Anacostia, Prince George's County isn't well-known for an abundance of resources either.
I suspect also the density of population and industry nearby, relative the volume of water flow, is rather higher for the Anacostia than the Potomac.
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