District Brings Flood Relief to Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park; Breaks Ground on Large-Scale Project at McMillan
To
mitigate flooding and sewer backups in the Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park
neighborhoods, Mayor Gray and DC Water announced a major new infrastructure
project at the site of the former McMillan Sand Filtration Plant. The Northeast
Boundary Neighborhood Protection Project is a product of the Mayor’s Task Force
on the Prevention of Flooding, and will be built in three phases between now
and 2022.
Mayor Gray established the task force in late
August and named City Administrator Allen Y. Lew and DC Water General Manager
George S. Hawkins as co-chairs.
“I asked the Task Force two basic questions,”
said Mayor Gray. “The first is why the long-term solution to this historic
problem was still more than a decade away. The second is whether anything more
could be done in the interim. This project answers both questions. I applaud
the Task Force and DC Water for developing it, and I want the residents of the
affected communities to know that relief is on the way. It will be meaningful,
and it will come soon.”
The two neighborhoods are connected to an
undersized sewer system and have been subject to flooding during heavy rains
for more than a century. DC Water’s long-term approach to this problem, the
Clean Rivers Project, is a tunnel system that will add capacity to the sewers
and was originally scheduled for completion in 2025. Mayor Gray convened the
Task Force and DC Water began a new investigation of causes and possible
mitigation strategies after four intense storms inflicted property damage in
Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park this summer.
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