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Remember a few weeks ago when GM told you about the exciting Georgetown 2028 effort by the BID, and how there would soon be a chance for you to weigh in on what you want Georgetown to look like in 15 years?
Well that time is nigh. The first community engagement meeting will be held next Thursday, June 13th, at the Foundry Building on Thomas Jefferson (across from Baked and Wired) at 5:30 – 8:00 pm. Continue reading
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GM doesn’t pass on every request he gets to plug a charity. If he did, that’s all he would write about. But when a request comes from a Georgetown-related cause GM cares about, he makes an exception. And that’s the case for Rose Park and Volta Park.
Both parks are treasures for Georgetown. While Montrose Park is probably the prettiest park in Georgetown, Volta and Rose are truly hives of the neighborhood. Volta park packs a playground, tennis courts, basketball courts, a softball field, a community center, a pool, a garden, and more open space, all in a city block. Rose Park a larger and a little more sprawling, but also offers a wide variety of activities with a little league field, two playgrounds, the best tennis courts in Georgetown, basketball courts and a ton of open fields.
These parks share something else in common: a “friends of” group that helps maintain and enhance these treasures. And you have an opportunity to help both of them right now. Continue reading
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Georgetown’s Q St. east of Wisconsin is home to a priceless collection of stately American Elm trees. The towering trees have mostly escaped the devastating Dutch Elm disease, which is an extremely rare thing.
Sadly, one of the particularly tall elms just east of 30th in front of Cooke’s Row looks to have died (or is well on its way). Street trees die all the time in a urban environment like Georgetown, but to lose a rare giant like this one is particularly sad.
Let’s just hope that whatever afflicted this one doesn’t attack its neighbors.
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Last night the ANC met for its June session. And as predicted by GM, the most interesting topic was overflowing sewage.
To Tunnel or Not to Tunnel
David McLaughlin, Director of Engineering and Technical Services for DC Water, presented on behalf of the sewer authority. As a bit of background: in 2004, the DC water and sewer authority (WASA, which it still is technically called, although it uses the trade name DC Water these days) entered a consent decree with the federal government to address the fact that in the older parts of the city, the household sewers and the storm drains are combined.
When storm drains get overwhelmed (like, say during Sunday’s squall) the combined system overflows into the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and Rock Creek. Thus what you flushed down the toilet Sunday night might now be drifting down the Potomac. Completely untreated.
As part of the decree, WASA/DC Water has agreed to build giant tunnels along the rivers. These tunnels will act a massive subterranean reservoirs to capture the overflow and hold it until the Blue Plains water treatment plant is ready to process it.
The Georgetown waterfront has about half a dozen sewage overflow spots. According to McLaughlin, at the location of each of these overflows a housing will need to be constructed to captured the overflow before it goes into the river. Then the water will be sent down massive access drains (McLaughlin said they could be as wide as 50 feet across) down to the tunnel. The tunnel itself will be 100 feet deep and over 100 feet wide. (They’re already digging a similar tunnel from the Blue Plains treatment facility to the southeast waterfront). Continue reading
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