A Boston River Now (Mostly) Fit for Swimming
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Sixty-nine experienced swimmers showed up for a race in the Charles River after it had been officially off-limits to swimmers for more than 50 years.
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By JANE SIMPSON  THE country's last privately owned river has become the first stretch of water at the centre of a community buyout bid.   Locals are preparing to pay almost Pounds 20,000 a mile for the River Ugie to prevent it falling into the hands of wealthy landowners.
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By Cody Lowe, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jun. 20--The insistent shush of the little stream was clear and bright, even though it was well out of sight and probably 100 vertical feet below the wooded path.
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By Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 22--The boats are ready. So are the life jackets, trash bags, snacks -- even the T-shirts and banner.   The only thing missing for Saturday's cleanup of the Missouri River at Omaha and Council Bluffs is you -- the volunteer.
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Â· Fall in water levels grants reprieve to stricken areas  Â· Body of woman in river takes death toll to seven.
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Some species of male fish in the Potomac River and its tributaries are developing female sexual traits at a frequency higher than scientists have seen before, raising concerns about pollutants in a waterway that provides drinking water for millions of people.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb.
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By Amy Burroughs, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 10-- -- Divers continued Friday to wait for the current of the Ohio River to slow before attempting to retrieve a tugboat that sank Jan. 19.
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Decades in the making, Fan Pier is finally taking shape on paper as a new Boston neighborhood, with its own identity, like the Back Bay. But the two couldn't look less alike.
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By Julie Scharper, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 3--On a hazy spring morning, George Malone steers his johnboat toward the head of the Back River in Essex, passing the twin golden domes of the sewage treatment plant and gliding under the Eastern Avenue bridge.
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 17--One step forward, one step back. We're making progress in cleaning up some of the problems plaguing the Chesapeake Bay and the rivers and streams that flow into it.
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Development on the long-stalled South Boston Waterfront got a kick-start yesterday, as Waterside Place, a 1.1-million-square-foot urban shopping plaza, hotel, and residential complex, won unanimous approval from the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.
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By The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H.  Sep. 12--Both the Merrimack and Souhegan rivers continue to have more  water than usual, but not more bacteria, according to the latest testing by  local volunteers.
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By Garin Groff, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Mar. 5--Cleaner water and a new pedestrian bridge are coming to Tempe Town Lake.   Swimmers will enjoy the better water in time for this spring's events, while the bridge will take a couple of years.
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By Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 24--Steven Solomon doesn't want to move a mountain.   Just a submerged houseboat.   But the chore may prove to be more difficult than he'd previously thought.
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By Bob Fliss, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.  Sep. 22--Aside from a mixed bag of regulatory inspections, the marina  renovations at Fishermen's Village are nearly complete.