Good Evening,
So - I am for smart development as it rises the property value and increases the quality of our neighborhods. However, I must say that it would have been too much like Common Sense to Explore this site for offset Years Ago - glad someone was listening!!! Maybe some of our other "words" are sinking is as I was speaking to someone last night of how the listserv has dwindled from all the "thoughtless" responses - I hope that silence means that our conversations sunk into the heads that needed it.
One thing for sure, if this below from the Heartbeat is true, then Development should be slowing to a halt.
Quote - "Mr. Hawkins said sewage overflows were the result of under-capacity in the entire system. "The entire Northeast Boundary Sewer is undersized," he said.
The Northeast Boundary Sewer serves 4,200 acres of land in central D.C. from roughly Brightwood in the north, Brookland in the east, Columbia Heights in the west and Capitol Hill and parts of the Navy Yard in the south.
Since Bloomingdale sits in a low-lying area served by the Northeast Boundary Sewer, its homes and streets are the first to be inundated when the system backs up. "The amount of rainfall overwhelmed the sewer system, which resulted in flooding," concluded DC Water about the recent events in Bloomingdale."
*****Jeff (indc) Looks like your "Columbia Heights" "dumping" is affecting us over here in NE --- I guess that is your official Welcome to Ward 5--smile!!! I don't think that there is not enough "green" approach to Development that can offset this issue.
*****Makes me wonder if greed and campaign coffers will supercede common sense!!! This is not just about McMillian but the much of the area which contributes to this Problem.
Rob Ramson
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:27 PM, scott@scott-roberts.net <scott@scott-roberts.net> wrote:
See this post from new Housing Complex reporter Aaron Wiener:McMillan Development: Underwater Again?
Posted by Aaron Wiener on Sep. 26, 2012 at 4:27 pmThe McMillan Sand Filtration Site.Last week, I reported on the steady progress of plans to redevelop the McMillan Sand Filtration Site on North Capitol Street. After 25 years of battles, the latest plan has the support of key councilmembers and segments of the local public.But it may have just hit a snag, in the form of water engineering.Residents of neighboring Bloomingdale, where summer storms brought severe flooding, have expressed concern that development on the site could worsen their flooding problems. Now, Mike DeBonis reports, DC Water is contemplating whether McMillan may hold the solution to Bloomingdale's problems. But not in a way that's conducive to development:D.C. Water General Manager George S. Hawkins said his agency is exploring whether the historic McMillan Sand Filtration Site north of Bloomingdale could be used as a place to store storm runoff during major storms, easing the aging and overloaded sewers downhill. ...The concept is that, during major storms, storm sewers upstream from Bloomingdale would dump runoff into McMillan's filtration cells, where it would stay until the weather passes. Once downstream sewers were less taxed, the runoff would then be pumped though to be processed at Blue Plains.But here's the catch:If D.C. Water and city officials decide they need to use McMillan's underground filtration cells until the planned storage tunnel is complete in 2025, that stands to affect how redevelopment will proceed — perhaps it could be done in phases, or perhaps it would have to wait until the tunnel is fully in service. ...D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5), who has both been intimately involved in the McMillan planning and has been crusading for storm-ravaged residents, said it's "a little too early to get residents' hopes up" about McMillan. But he said his first priority would be using the site for flood relief.So full development of McMillan could have to wait at least another decade after all.__._,_.___
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