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Adding new rain garden cleanup and board meeting dates and details below. And the concert was fantastic. Has Forest Hills Park (at 3200 Chesapeake Street NW) ever had this much going on in one month? Saturday, September 7th, 5 to 7 p.m.: A concert at the park’s amphitheater near the Brandywine Street entrance. Progressive hip-hop […]
The concerts at Forest Hills Park went on hiatus this summer. But a new group of volunteers is preparing for an early September concert at the park. And it might become an annual tradition. Here’s what we know so far: The festivities begin at 5 p.m. and end at 7 p.m. Saturday, September 7th at […]
(Updated 8/4/2019 with ANC 3F’s final resolution and a link to DC Water’s 2011 report) We have done a lot lately with the Soapstone sewer project and realize it could be difficult to keep track of it all. So we thought it might be helpful to have the latest information and opinion in one place. […]
The 2011 DC Water report referenced in David Jonas Bardin’s July 22nd piece (Opinion: I’ve seen a rich, thoughtful analysis of the Soapstone sewers. The 2019 EA isn’t it.) is now available for download at DCWater.com. From David: In 2013, DC Water dialogued with a group of us about sewers in Soapstone Valley. We used […]
by Jeff Seltzer Rock Creek and the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers are beloved environmental treasures. However, District residents and visitors cannot fully enjoy our local waterbodies as they routinely fall below water quality standards established to protect people and natural habitat. The degradation of the District’s waters occurred over several centuries as the traditional methods […]
by Marlene Berlin After rain falls, where does it go? Sometimes our yards get too soggy, our basements flood or sump pumps rev into action. After last summer’s soaking, new springs burst forth which flowed down our sidewalks and streets. But a great deal of it is collected and poured directly into the streams that […]
by David Jonas Bardin Ten years ago, when I served on its board of directors, DC Water started focusing on aging, gravity-flow sanitary sewers laid in beds of creeks. DC Water gave sewers in Soapstone Creek a high priority. To inspect those sewers and assess their condition, DC Water turned to a pair of engineering […]
by Marlene Berlin We’ve been warned in the past that the Soapstone Valley Trail is endangered due to steady erosion of the stream banks. The erosion accelerates whenever we have a major storm event, and the storms have not decreased in frequency or impact since that warning in 2014. Take last Tuesday’s powerful deluge, so […]
by Marlene Berlin At the June 26th public meeting on a project that would address the century-old sewer system running through the Soapstone Valley, no one challenged the need for relining the pipes and repairing manholes. DC Water’s presentation made it clear that the pipes and manhole covers, now more than 110 years old, have […]
by Marlene Berlin If you’ve come across volunteers working on the Soapstone Valley Trail in the past year, you’ve run into JoAnn Shaner’s crew. Shaner has been the Soapstone Trail supervisor for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club since mid-2018. (PATC maintains many of our trails and is currently rebuilding a footbridge on the Melvin Hazen […]
