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  • Sunrise on the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River. Prince George's County, 2011.
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  • Great blue heron fishing in Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Washington DC, 2012.
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  • A restored wetland in Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, littered with trash. Anacostia River, Washington DC, 2012.
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  • Forested lands help maintain the integrity of watersheds, like this National Park in Greenbelt, Maryland, in the Washington DC metro region. USA October 2013
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  • Oil on a street in the Anacostia River watershed. Pollutants like this are washed into the stormwater system that flows into the river. Mount Rainier, Maryland, 2014.
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  • A recent study found that more than 17,000 people are regularly eating fish out of the Anacostia River, many of them out of necessity/poverty. Another study found that 2/3 of the brown bullhead catfish in the river have cancerous lesions, likely due to toxic sediments in the river. 50 years after the Clean Water Act, the Anacostia has yet to reach the goal of a fishable river. Bladensburg, Maryland, 2011.
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  • Trash stuck in a stormwater outfall on Hickey Run in the Anacostia River watershed. Photo taken in the US Arboretum, Washington DC. 2010
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  • Rainstorms flowing over desturbed land and construction sites pour silt into the Anacostia, muddying the water. And the dominance of impervious pavement in the city causes floods like this one, overtaking the fish ladder on the Northwest Branch of the river. Hyattsville, Maryland, 2010.
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  • Anacostia River advocate Lee Cain kayaking on the river. Washington DC, USA, August 2010.
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  • Deforestation, silt runoff and pollution build-up transformed the historic port of Bladensburg from a 40-foot deep river passable by ocean-going ships, to a polluted backwater barely passable by kayak at low tide. Bladensburg, Maryland, 2011.
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  • A northern brown snake on a bank of the Paint Branch, a tributary of the Anacostia.
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  • Red fox walking along the Anacostia River. Bladensburg, Maryland, 2012.
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