At ANC 3F‘s January meeting, DC Water indicated that the relining phase of the Soapstone sewer rehabilitation project would be getting under way by now. The DC Water reps also said they would soon schedule a separate public meeting before the relining work commenced. There have been no further public updates since, but there’s bound to be news on that front when ANC 3F meets on Tuesday, February 21st at 7 p.m.
DC Water is on the agenda (see below). We will also meet Lopez Matthews, Jr., the DC state archivist. Matthews will provide an update on a new DC Archives facility, which will be built on the UDC campus where Building 41 now stands.
The full agenda and a link to the Zoom meeting are below.
ANC 3F – Regular Meeting Agenda
February 21, 2023; 7:00pm to 9:36pm
ANC 3F is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting at https://bit.ly/anc3fmeet.
Welcome (7:00pm)
Call to Order (7:01pm)
Roll Call (7:02pm)
I. Adoption of the February 21, 2023 ANC 3F meeting agenda (7:03pm)
II. Approval of ANC 3F meeting minutes for January 17, 2023 (7:04pm)
III. Approval of ANC 3F 2023 Budget Adjustments (7:05pm)
IV. Regular Agenda – Commissioner Updates and Announcements (7:06pm-7:16pm)
V. Regular Agenda – Committee Reports (7:17pm – 7:27pm)
- Streets & Sidewalks
- Parks & Watersheds
- Schools & Universities
- Housing & Neighborhoods
VI. Regular Agenda – Community Forum (community leaders and agencies give brief updates) (7:28-7:38pm)
VII. Regular Agenda – Information Items (ANC 3F will not take a vote on these items) (7:39pm-9:13pm)
- ANC 3F Public Safety Update from Second District, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Lieutenant Ronald Bridges (7:39pm-8:00pm)
- DC Water Update (8:01pm-8:21pm)
- Department of Behavioral Health Community Response Team (CRT), Anthony Hall, LICSW,LCSW-C, Director (8:22pm-8:42pm)
- Update on new D.C. Archives facility to be located on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia, Lopez D. Matthews, Jr., PhD, State Archivist and Public Records Administrator, Office of the Secretary, DC Office of Public Records (8:43pm-9:13pm)
VIII. Regular Agenda – (ANC 3F will vote on these items) (9:14pm-9:35pm)
- BZA Permit, special exception to construct rear addition to attached two-story house at 5042 Nebraska, Case #20839 (9:14pm-9:24pm)
- Resolution on an opportunity for DC government to acquire Whittle School Campus at 3400 International Drive, NW with introduction from Eric Goulet, Ward 3 District of Columbia State Board of Education (9:25pm-9:35pm)
IX. Adjournment (9:36pm)
Thank you for joining us this evening. The next ANC 3F meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
Green Eyeshades says
ANC3F posted the video of last night’s monthly meeting on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/iWs-xnkb2W8
The meeting reached the agenda item for DC Water’s Soapstone sewer rehabilitation project at the 59 minute and 18 second mark (00:59:18). Commissioner Baer noted in his introduction that DC Water would discuss primarily its schedule for the project, apparently including the schedule for the operations to install Cured-in-Place Pipe (CIPP), but not the details of the operations of the CIPP process. DC Water’s Emanuel Briggs confirmed that DC Water’s staff would primarily discuss the schedule, and noted that the project will be relining pipe “throughout the park.”
Discussion of DC Water’s slides — “Creek Bed Sewer Repair and Rehabilitation Project, Soapstone Valley Park” — begins at 01:01:56.
A simpler map of the project appears in the “Background” portion of the slides, showing the work on the stream bed at seven sites starting with the outfall at Albemarle St. NW (marked Outfall F-117) and the six portions of stream bed work numbered one through six from the west end of the stream bed below the outfall (site one) to the end of the stream bed at the east end at Broad Branch (site six) (01:03:36). CCTV inspection of the sewer line has been completed from the bottom at site six up through site four at the end of Audubon Terrace including the “collector sewer line” coming down to the Soapstone Valley from Lenore Lane.
Stream bed work is 55% complete at site one and will resume there in March 2023. Stream bed work is 100% complete at sites two and three. Stream bed work is 70% complete at site four (end of Audubon Terrace). The remaining work on the stream bed at sites four, five and six is on hold until the CIPP is finished (date not given). (01:05:17)
CIPP work will begin at site six “the week of March 13, 2023” and will include bypass pumping of the sewer line at sites four, five and six, as well as traffic control on Broad Branch “near the park entrance” which seems to mean the entrance to “Soapstone Valley Park,” not the entrance(s) to Rock Creek Park. (01:05:24)
Details of the CIPP relining of the collector sewer line under Lenore Lane are on a separate slide (01:07:50) and seem to show that the “collector sewer line” will be relined with CIPP from Lenore Lane down to the “trunk sewer line” under the stream bed of Soapstone Creek, but the “lateral sewer line” actually under Lenore Lane will not be relined. There is no date given for the CIPP work on that collector sewer line from Lenore Lane and it is not assigned a specific “site” number on the map of sites.
There are ten slides showing ten (10) actual geographic locations where the “boiler truck” will be stationed while CIPP work is being done on segments of the sewer line; five (5) of those locations are in addition to the six “site numbers” on the project map. For sites five and six, the truck will be next to or on Broad Branch Road (01:08:01) (two sites will be done from one location). For the second location on the lower part of Audubon Terrace, the truck will be at the intersection of the Terrace and 29th St. (01:08:56) (not a numbered “site”). At the third truck location, at Lenore Lane, the truck appears to block the lane at the bottom of the cul-de-sac (01:09:17) (not a numbered “site”). At the fourth truck location, Van Ness, the truck will be on the parking lot behind Van Ness North or Van Ness East (also not a numbered “site”) (01:09:28). The fifth geographic location is on the upper half of Audubon Terrace above (west) of 29th Street (also not a numbered “site”) (01:09:43). The sixth truck location appears to be actually on or next to Connecticut Avenue at the Park Connecticut apartments (not a numbered “site”) (01:09:53).
The seventh location is at “site one” where the truck will be located on Albemarle St. NW (01:10:03). The eighth location is at “site two” on the floor of Soapstone Valley in the stream bed (01:10:13). The ninth location is at “site three” where the boiler truck will also be in the actual stream bed (01:10:23). Same for “site four,” which is actually the tenth geographical location where CIPP will occur; again, the boiler truck will be on the stream bed (01:10:28).
Commissioner Baer hinted at this blossoming of additional CIPP sites in his introduction, when he mentioned that CIPP will take place at ten locations. But these slides are the first time DC Water has actually disclosed that CIPP relining will take place at ten dispersed locations on all sides of Soapstone Valley, including coming up onto street level in our neighborhoods on Lenore Lane, Connecticut Avenue, Van Ness parking lot(s), and Albemarle Street.
Green Eyeshades says
There are no dates on any of the ten slides showing geographic locations of the boiler truck. I have not listened to every minute of the eleven minutes of audio during the showing of those ten slides, or to every minute of the questions & answers.
But it was jarring to see and hear DC Water say they would show the “schedule” and then not provide a single date other than the date of “the week of March 13” for the CIPP work at sites five and six (at Broad Branch, east end of project).
There was not one slide labeled “schedule” in the slides presented on February 21.
The final speaker for DC Water said, in fact, that they were not providing a schedule at that meeting!
DC Water said the refrigerator truck (called “reefer truck” by one DC Water person) will be located at the same places the boiler truck will be located for CIPP work at ten locations. The refrigerator truck has been described in other meetings as the truck that will hold and pump the toxic VOCs used to manufacture the plastic lining inside the sewer pipes. So the VOCs will be handled at numerous locations in our neighborhoods up on street level, not just down in the stream bed.