Additional articles about swimming in the Charles River

History of swimming in the Charles River: Recreational swimming and sanitary bathing were commonplace along the Charles in an earlier era... (includes photos from Inventing the Charles River by Karl Haglund).

Taking the plunge: On a hot and muggy afternoon in mid July, swimming advocates and state environmental leaders met with the media at the dock at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Center to celebrate the fact that water quality in the Charles is clean enough to allow swimming.

Media coverage

A Dip in the Charles. Boston Globe Editorial (July 23, 2006)

Plunge evokes the good ol' days. By Franco Ordonez. Boston Globe. (July 18, 2005)

City Planner Dreams of "Swiss Style" Swimming in Boston's Charles River (Swiss Review, November 2005).

In May of 2005, the EPA released data that found the Charles River east of the Mass Avenue Bridge to be swimmable throughout the summer of 2004.