[1] Colonel Peter Conover Hains of the United States Army Corps of Engineers oversaw the Basin's design and construction.

[4] In the Commissioners' annual report to Congress for that year, Major Twining proposed to create the tidal reservoir and use its water to help "flush" the Washington Channel.

Although the racially-segregated beach was "a place to see people and be seen", a strictly-enforced rule prohibited women's bathing suits that stopped more than six inches above the knee.

[7] The Tidal Basin was the scene of an incident involving the Chairman of the United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Democratic Congressman Wilbur Mills.

The Army Corps of Engineers designed the Basin to enable it to release 250 million US gallons (950,000 m3) of water captured at high tide twice a day.

Sea level rise and land subsidence has caused portions of the paths next to the water to regularly flood at high tide.

[15] The Kutz Memorial Bridge crosses the northern lobe of the Tidal Basin, carrying eastbound Independence Avenue traffic in three lanes.

[16] The bridge's name commemorates Brigadier General Charles Willauer Kutz, a Commissioner of Engineering for the District of Columbia during the first half of the 20th century.

[17] Architect Paul Philippe Cret designed the multi-span plate girder bridge, which the engineering firm of Alexander and Repass constructed.