The Anacostia Riverkeeper will aim to reschedule probably next spring.
The “Splash” event, hosted by the Anacostia Riverkeeper, would have allowed people to sign up for 20-minute swims from the Kingman Island dockwas disappointing considering the bacteria levels in the Anacostia were four times lower than the level at which water is considered unsafe to swim.
“As it happens, water quality was outstanding. It was all set to be a really, really perfect condition, safety-wise, for the event,” Sherard said Friday, “and it was only the high wind and everything else with the tropical storm that we are canceling.”The Anacostia has been closed to swimmers since 1971 and for decades was seen as a polluted, bacteria-plagued waterway full of sewage overflow. But after litigation under the Clean Water Act resulted in a 2005 consent decree
to improve conditions, a number of engineering projects such as the Anacostia River tunnel allowed for tremendous progress in restoring the river, Sherard said.“Right now we are looking at the fruit of a quarter-century of work across the entire watershed,” Sherard said. “So when people have concerns about, ‘Isn’t it dangerous?,’ a lot of people don’t realize there’s been so much work getting us to where we are now.
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