Lifelong resident Frazer Walton, Jr., who grew up steps from the Anacostia as a child in the 1950s, is one of those residents. Today, after decades of activism by residents and legal battles brought by Earthjustice - part of a broader effort to safeguard our public lands and waters - the Anacostia is now the closest it’s been in recent history to being safe for swimming and fishing.Īs grand ideas for D.C.’s “forgotten river” begin bubbling to the surface, such as creating European-style swim platforms along the river, Anacostia advocates want to ensure that any proposals going forward benefit those who brought the river back to life when they had no place else to go. military to a prominent Italian countess. One community, who lived next to D.C.’s Anacostia River, was tired of seeing the decline of the Anacostia firsthand, caused by projects tied to everyone from the U.S. These actions were historic and the benefits widespread, except in communities of color and low-income areas that bore the brunt of industrial pollution. The public outrage eventually led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and passage of bedrock environmental laws.
and around the country as people saw polluted waterways catch fire and birds drop dead from pesticide poisoning. But in the 1970s, a different kind of fight began brewing in D.C. The practice was illegal, so the men would often hop across the state line to Maryland to stand off along the Anacostia River in a spot known as “Blood Run.”ĭueling along the Anacostia has long fallen out of favor. needed to settle an argument, they often challenged each other to duels. In the 1800s, when quarreling men in D.C.
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