by Marlene Berlin
I am often walking past the site of the Broad Branch (now under way) and Linnean Stream restoration projects. There are changes each time. Watching the process unfold is fascinating.
The green apparatus, a pump, and the long black pipe are for rerouting a cracked sewage line that is leaking into Linnean stream. (Correction: The pipe is for rerouting the sewer line along Broad Branch Road, which DC Water is currently repairing. DC Water did these repairs in the Linnean Park area a couple of months ago.)
While walking by on Presidents’ Day, I interrupted a meeting of contractor Keith Underwood of Underwood Associates, a stream restoration company out of Annapolis, with his crew. They kindly let me take a group photo.
Walk by and see the hum of activity for yourself!
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Tracy Johnke says
I had wondered if the snow would knock them off schedule. Now I know!
Bill Eck says
If you have any pruning done by Bartlett in the near future, the chipped brush from your trees will be going to this site to aid in the stream restoration efforts.
Kurt says
Last year the National Park Service placed flyers in neighbors’ doors that the large field of bamboo behind the houses on Linnean Ave. and Harrison St. would be chemically eradicated as bamboo is considered a by the Interior Dept. as a foreign invasive species. In earlier discussion with the project team, I heard that they would be removing the bamboo. Now I see that they’ve been digging up the bamboo and replanting it along the new creek bed. This can only result in the entire creek bed, as well as adjoining properties, becoming overrun with bamboo which is clearly not native to Rock Creek. I saw an entire neighborhood taken over by bamboo before, and I am very concerned to see bamboo being planted here now.