Microbiota of the Hickey Run Tributary of the Anacostia River.

Water from the Hickey Run Tributary of the Anacostia River is being collected quarterly (beginning August 2018) and analyzed to create high-resolution baseline taxonomic profiles of microbiota associated with this important aquatic ecosystem, which has a long history of exposure to residential and commercial effluents from Washington, DC. These United States National Arboretum Microbial Observatory data are available under NCBI BioProject number PRJNA498951.