ANC Preview for March

The ANC is meeting for its March session next Monday night at 6:30 pm at Visitation. The agenda is below.

There is one item I wanted to flag, but only because it makes me laugh a little. The subject is the Potomac River Tunnel Project from DC Water. This absolutely massive project will someday make the Potomac so clean you can safely swim in it. (Unlike now, when people like me can only slightly dangerously swim in it….)

This project has been long in coming. A very, very long time coming. I first wrote about this project in one of the earliest articles I ever drafted, way back in April 2009. That was back when DC Water was still called WASA. Also, two of my ANC colleagues were barely out of diapers at the time. And even that date was far from the beginning of the project. It’s origins date back to a lawsuit in the late 90s targeting WASA’s practice of simply dumping raw sewage directly into the river. (Until this project is complete, DC Water still does occasionally dump raw sewage in the river, hence the slight danger swimming in the river right now.)

The project is finally coming to Georgetown (although some smaller parts of the project have already come). DC Water will be at the ANC meeting to discuss the next phase. Hopefully it won’t take another 16 years to complete.

Here’s the full agenda: