Members of the Lawn Rangers club working on the Community Flower Garden at Clay St. and Anacostia Ave. Notice the pollution coming from the Pepco power plant in the background. (Photo courtesy of E. Lewis; 1960’s.)

1973 aerial photo of the pollution coming from the Pepco power plant (foreground), and DC’s Trash Transfer Station and Incinerator (background). (Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.)