Existing Conditions The Anacostia River, an urban river in Washington D.C., can be characterized as a “thin park,” devoid of its context and separated from much of its surroundings. The Anacostia flows just over 8 miles from Bladensburg, Maryland off the DC border, through a marginalized Southeast D.C., before emptying into the Potomac River. Physically cut off from its surroundings by highways and vegetative barriers, many people are naively unaware of the Anacostia’s location or potential as an urban river in our nation’s capital.
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source; Kate Hayes