The organization has protected over 60,000 acres and over 100 stream miles in the 14,670-square-mile Potomac River basin. “Clean water’s our north star,” Belin said.

The bodies of all 67 victims of the Jan. 29 plane crash along the Potomac River have now been recovered. Among those were Alexandria residents 12-year-old Olivia Eve Ter and her mother Olesya Taylor.

Search and rescue efforts are seen around a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, early Thursday morning, Jan. 30, 2025, in Arlington, Va., past the ...