3000 block of M St.
Q St. Construction to Last Until March
Photo by Pinelife.
WASA–now branded “DC Water”–has been conducting major construction on Q St. for about a year. The construction entails separating the sewer systems into two systems: sanitary and storm. As it is now, all sewage, whether from a toilet or a storm grate, goes into the same pipe. When it rains a lot (like yesterday) that pipe gets backed up and the overflow (including all that stuff from the toilets) is drained into Rock Creek. The EPA sued WASA over this and WASA is under a court order to fix it by separating the pipes to make sure sanitary sewage never is dumped into Rock Creek.
When WASA was considering this project, they kicked around a couple ideas for how to conduct the massive project on Q St. They considered shutting the road down completely or just shutting it down to one lane. Finally they settled on allowing two lanes of traffic at all times. The last GM heard about this (which was a little before construction started) the project was supposed to run from about October 2009 until September 2010. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Dean and Deluca by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- What exactly is a “silly band“? Is that like today’s slap bracelet?
- Old Chevy Chase Bank customer looking to move back to a local bank? Bank of Georgetown expanding again.
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Georgetown Votes
Voting in Georgetown was light on Tuesday, even for an “off-year.” The number of voters who showed up was down from 2006 (the last “off-year”) both as a matter of percentage of registered voters as well as in real numbers:
- 2006:
- Registered voters: 8856
- Turnout: 1891
- Percent: 21%
- 2010
- Registered voters: 9411
- Turnout: 1803
- Percent: 19%
Interestingly, while the total amount of voters showing up was off about 5%, the number of those voters who bothered to cast a vote for ANC was off by 10%. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Chris DiGiamo.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- ANC Commissioner Bill Starrels seen way up in AU Park challenging student votes.
- Another old Kennedy house is for sale. This time its papa Joe Kennedy’s mansion at 31st and P.
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Halloween, Crime, and Georgetown
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At the ANC meeting Monday night, Ed Solomon reported that Georgetown is experiencing a crime spike. GM’s crunched the numbers recently and concluded for himself that, yes, crime did tick up in the third quarter. But he was curious to know whether there’s a particular spike in crime in and around Halloween. So he went back and recrunched the numbers, this time he looked at crime on Halloween weekend (for the sake of clarity he chose the weekend before Halloween when it fell on a Mon-Wed, and the weekend after if it fell on a Thursday or Friday; in either case he looked at Fri-Sun for the numbers). Looking back to 2006, this is what he found out:
| Theft | ADW | Robbery | Burglary | Theft f Auto | Sex Abuse | Total | |
| 2006 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| 2007 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| 2008 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| 2009 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| 2010 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Average | 8.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 12.6 |
Crime has been very consistent in Georgetown for Halloween weekend (dare GM call it eerie?) The total number of crimes barely budges year to year, and averages 12.6. Unsurprisingly thefts lead the way, averaging 8.4, while thefts from auto trail far behind second with an average of 2.2. Robberies have been spotty, but burglaries have been been steady over the past three years. Continue reading
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Pinelife.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Even before hearing from BOEE, GM is going to call the ANC elections for the seven uncontested guys who were running for it.
- Carol Joynt takes a stroll through the depressing mall. (Bonus: The National Pinball Machine Museum looks like it’s getting close to opening).
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