Overhaul planned for two Anacostia River streams.
'Federal and local governments are preparing to spend an estimated $34 million on stream restorations in two branches of the Anacostia River, which flows from Maryland headwaters into the District of Columbia. After years of planning, construction is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2022.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers split the $1.8 million study costs for the project with Prince George’s County, MD, where the work will occur. The majority of the federal funds approved by Congress for the project will be funneled through the Corps’ Baltimore District.
The work will restore 7 miles of stream habitat in the river’s Northwest and Northeast branches in Prince George’s County, MD. Removing blockages to fish passage will open up 4 miles of stream for species such as alewife and blueback herring to spawn and connect them to 14 miles of previously restored stream reaches.
“One of the major features of this project is [that it will] link all of those previous efforts and open up a larger corridor of restored streams, so the fish can travel farther upstream,” said Tham Saravanapavan, a project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The $34 million expected to be spent on these second and third order streams encompasses about six major projects made possible by decades of collaboration between federal, state and local governments and other partners. They are some of the larger projects among the 3,000 that were first proposed for the river in a sprawling 2010 Anacostia Restoration Plan.'>>>
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