From a press release:
“A year ago this month the Mayor’s Task Force on the Prevention of Flooding in Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park announced a series of short-term relief measures to lessen the impacts of flooding in these neighborhoods. Since then, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and DC Water have aggressively implemented several of these immediate efforts to mitigate the flooding as part of the District’s approximately $3 billion infrastructure improvement program.
This past spring DDOT installed catch basins (i.e., storm drains) on the 500 and 600 blocks of Florida Avenue NW and the unit block of T Street NW to help divert water from area roadways and alleviate flooding. DDOT also installed a new sewer line and double catch basin at the intersection of 2nd Street and Rhode Island Avenue NW to add capacity to the sewer system.
In early July DDOT also completed a major step in an ongoing project — the installation of a five-foot-wide storm sewer line under the median of the 100 block of Rhode Island Avenue NW to help remove stormwater from the roadway and store it before slowly releasing it into the sewer system. The storm sewer was originally slated to be completed by Labor Day, but was completed in early July — two months ahead of schedule.
“Mother Nature wasn’t going to wait around for us to get the job done, so we made great strides to complete this ahead of schedule and prepare the community for potentially damaging summer storms,” Mayor Gray said. (more…)
