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The article says:

WASA was sued by the Anacostia Watershed Society...

So, what is WASA?

District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, IIRC. (i.e. the water utility) -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:27, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, never mind, you already got it. Guess it was a rhetorical question. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 05:31, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

External Links

The last link -- to a page in the MD Dept. of Natural Resources -- is no longer valid. Can someone figure out if there is a new resource within the site that is useful? I don't know what the content of the previously existing page was to know whether an adequate substitution can be found. Rschmertz (talk) 03:38, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Popular music references

Singer/songwriter Polly Jean Harvey penned and recorded a song which explores the history of the river and the legacy of polluting industries on the Anacostia's health. ^[1]

60.226.7.124 (talk) 22:47, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://pjharvey.net/song-lyrics/river-anacostia/

DCWASA Lawsuit

Found a link to the consent decree, might help to clean that "works cited" but I'm not sure if it has the final cost of the upgrades. https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/dcwasa-cd.pdf Thundersnow042 (talk) 16:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://pjharvey.net/song-lyrics/river-anacostia/

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