Georgetown Boathouse EIS

The National Park Service (NPS) and Georgetown University proposed to exchange interests in land that could establish a non-motorized boathouse along the shore of the Potomac River in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC. The NPS and the University long discussed the potential for public acquisition of a University-owned parcel located within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park and the establishment of a boathouse for the University’s growing crew team within the designated boathouse zone. In 1997, the NPS signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the District of Columbia State Historic Preservation Officer (DC SHPO) that contained a provision that the boathouse proposed by the University would not have a footprint greater than 15,000 square feet.