NPS starts repairs on Tidal Basin, Potomac River seawalls. By Amelia Davidson | 08/16/2024 01:19 PM EDT . The agency is using $113 million from the Great American Outdoors Act to renovate the ...

If you've never been to Washington, D.C. before, plan to spend some time along the Tidal Basin, an approximately 107-acre pond encircled by a 2.1-mile loop trail. Constructed to use the strong ...

About 6,800 linear feet of sea wall is being repaired. In addition to the new foundation, the repaired walls will be higher, at 4.75 feet around the Tidal Basin and 5.5 feet around West Potomac ...

Tidal/storm surge maps will also be developed for the Anacostia River, from the district/Maryland border, downstream to the confluence with the Potomac River, for a distance of approximately 10 miles.

The National Park Service plans to rehab and heighten nearly 7,000 feet of sea wall at the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park in an effort to deal with flooding.

Construction started in August 2024 to replace the sinking seawalls around the Tidal Basin and in West Potomac Park. The $113 million project is funded by the Great American Outdoors Act.

POINT OF ROCKS -- Easter morning, Ron Lewis and his friend, Jimmy Griffith, launched Lewis's boat on the tidal Potomac River about 7:30. Griffith caught the first fish, a 14-pound ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Construction work to rehabilitate aging seawalls along the Potomac River and Tidal Basin will begin Thursday in "golden" fashion during a groundbreaking ceremony by National ...