The Anacostia Community Boathouse Association was formed last year when a consortium of rowing clubs and an environmental group banded with the city, DPW, and NPS to lease an existing but dilapidated DPW warehouse on the Anacostia River and turn it into a working boathouse. The mission of the Association and its members is to bring the community back to the Anacostia River and specifically to rowing, canoeing, and kayaking.