Christophe Tulou, the acting director of the District Department of the Environment, has enacted emergency rule making authority so that triathletes can swim in the Potomac River during races this summer. Tulou will be able to temporarily lift the ban on swimming in the river if water quality testers don’t find levels of E. Coli that are too high. The testing will be done two weeks before the races. Two triathlons are scheduled this summer: The Washington D.C. Triathlon on June 20 and the Nation’s Triathlon on Sept. 11. Open-water swims have been canceled in years’ past because of high pollution levels.
— Alan Suderman
