Updated below with details of a virtual public meeting on Thursday, March 9th, about the commencement of the relining work.
by Mitchell Baer
ANC 3F03 commissioner
At the February 21st ANC 3F meeting, DC Water presented a status report on its work to reline the main and trunk sewer lines in the Soapstone Valley. From that presentation and separate discussions between DC Water and myself, we have learned:
Stream restoration work at Site 1 (near Albemarle Street) will restart in March and should be completed by the end of April. This work includes the movement of rock around the storm sewer outfall and pond areas.
Soapstone sewer project site map.
Stream work at Sites 4, 5, and 6 (from the Lenore Lane area to Broad Branch Road) is being delayed until after the completion of the cured-in-place pipe, or CIPP, relining work throughout the park.
CIPP operations will commence first in the Site 6 area, nearest Broad Branch Road, on March 13th (after first targeting the end of January). The duration of the work at this site will be two to three weeks. DC Water will submit an updated schedule for the remaining sites by the end of March, and will refine the schedule on a regular basis to more accurately announce the commencement of operations at the other five sites. DC Water has prepared a notification protocol and announcements.
CIPP operations will be conducted at ten specific sub-areas within the six sites. Maps will be provided by DC Water for each sub-area, and are to include the specific length of the sewer line to be relined, the location of the boiler and refrigeration trucks, the duration of the CIPP-specific work, and other information.
Lenore Lane at Site 4 will be the first community area to see work. CIPP work at Sites 1 and 2 (which include sub-areas by the Park Van Ness and Park Connecticut apartments, Audubon Terrace and Franklin Montessori School) is several months away.
ANC 3F will host Zoom meetings with DC Water staff for each of the site communities (Lenore Lane, Van Ness East/Van Ness North, Park Connecticut/Park Van Ness/Montessori School, and Audubon Terrace). The meetings will be scheduled several weeks prior to the commencement of CIPP operations in these areas.
DC Water is being asked to expand the weekly project update it distributes to include more detailed and expanded information about CIPP and stream restoration operations and the schedule for the entire project.
Update: DC Water has announced a virtual public meeting on Thursday, March 9th from 7 to 8 p.m.
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Meeting ID: 264 028 636 564
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Green Eyeshades says
Very refreshing to have an actual ANC Commissioner post detailed information about this dangerous project.
Thank you Commissioner Baer!
Barbara Kraft says
Thank you, Commissioner Baer!
Ken S. says
Any guess as to when the park will re-open? Original date was in October, but that seems ambitious given the work remaining.
Green Eyeshades says
We are lucky the Connection and ANC3F are paying such close attention to this dangerous project.
I really appreciate knowing a week ahead of time that I can dial in by telephone to DC Water’s virtual meeting with ANC3F on the beginning of CIPP work at sites five and six (bottom, or east, end of project at Broad Branch). I pasted the update with that telephone number at the end of this comment.
The virtual meeting will be held March 9, which is one week from this coming Thursday. The first CIPP work is supposed to begin “the week of March 13” according to the presentation by DC Water at ANC3F’s monthly meeting on Feb. 21. Tomorrow is March first, so the beginning of CIPP work is less than two weeks away. Lenore Lane has just been revealed as the second location for CIPP work, but we don’t have the date for that location. Also, we still don’t know when CIPP will start at the third location, or any of the seven other geographic locations.
I posted a link to the YouTube of the Feb. 21 meeting, along with a summary of the slides showing geographic locations of the CIPP work (as presented by DC Water) in my comment on Feb. 22, here:
https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/anc-3f-feb-21-agenda-updates-on-the-soapstone-sewer-project-and-a-new-dc-archives-at-udc/#comment-705850
Commissioner Baer reposted the link to the YouTube of the Feb. 21 meeting in the main blogpost, above. Commissioner Baer revealed in the main blogpost that “Lenore Lane at Site 4 will be the first community area to see work.” But the slide for Lenore Lane was actually the third slide among DC Water’s ten slides of the ten geographic locations where CIPP will be performed. So the order of the slides in DC Water’s presentation is not necessarily the “schedule” of the sequence of locations.
The second slide among DC Water’s ten slides was actually for the lower part of Audubon Terrace, which is also not a numbered “site” as Lenore Lane is not a numbered “site.” When will that lower section of Audubon Terrace receive the CIPP treatment?
Here’s the update for next week’s virtual meeting:
Update: DC Water has announced a virtual public meeting on Thursday, March 9th from 7 to 8 p.m.
Click here to join the meeting (via Microsoft Teams)
Meeting ID: 264 028 636 564
Passcode: mM6Uy4
Or call in (audio only):
+1 202-753-6714,,297061807#
Phone Conference ID: 297 061 807#