by Marlene Berlin Mayor Vincent Gray presided over the official opening of the reconstructed Linnean Stream and the “daylighted” Broad Branch Stream last Saturday, October 18th. Nature also put on a show. The event took place under blue skies and a bright sun that perfectly showed off this spectacular project by DC’s Department of the […]
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You’re invited: Celebrate the new Broad Branch and Linnean streams!
The Broad Branch stream restoration began in February, and Linnean Playground project started a few months later. Now, both projects are nearing completion, and a date has been set – to celebrate. Steve Saari manages both projects for the District Department of the Environment, and he has an announcement to make: Oct. 18th Grand Opening […]
Stream and stormwater updates: Broad Branch’s bad report card, Linnean trail work, and the late arrival of some of our favorite seasonal neighbors
Broad Branch stream health Alicia Ritzenhaler, environmental protection specialist at the DC Department of Energy and the Environment, says the stream has a new water quality sensor. The data it collects is used to score the stream’s health. DOEE’s Stream Condition Index assigns A-F letter grades, and the Broad Branch report card not looking good. […]
Linnean and Broad Branch Stream restoration detailed in 12/3 webcast
Forest Hills Connection has extensively covered the daylighting and restoration of the Broad Branch and Linnean streams, yet there’s still so much we can learn about the work. We get another chance this Thursday during a live webcast about the projects. On December 3rd from 12-1:30 p.m., Steve Saari, who managed the projects for the […]
Photos: More work on Linnean and Broad Branch streams project
by Marlene Berlin The restoration work on the Linnean and Broad Branch streams is complete but for a few finishing touches. Some of that work happened last weekend. After finding Linnean Avenue at Broad Branch Road closed the night of Saturday, February 7th, I went back late Sunday morning to see what was happening. And […]
How the rebuilt Linnean Playground stream handles a deluge
Quite well, as it turns out. During the deluge on August 12th, we got four inches of rain over a few hours. The Linnean Playground stream, rebuilt to slow the flow of stormwater and cleanse the water of pollution, is doing its job. Keith Pivonski of Underwood and Associates, the contractor handling the Linnean and […]
‘Linnean Playground’ Stream To Be Restored
by Suzanne Wald District Department of the Environment This summer, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the District of Columbia are restoring a perennial stream in Linnean Playground using an innovative technique called a Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance (RSC). This waterway is fed by a storm sewer outfall that conveys stormwater runoff from 24.5 […]
Photos: A rainy respite from the drought drying up our streams
by Marlene Berlin On Wednesday morning, I set off early on a hike through Rock Creek Park. I wanted to beat the heat and the sun, but ran into some rain instead. Soon after I started, around 6:45 a.m., I started to feel a light misty rain. It soon turned into drops. I could have […]
A new addition to Linnean Park is an Eagle Scout service project and an ideal ‘shinrin-yoku’ spot
by John Burwell Scout Troop 100 has once again contributed an amenity for the enjoyment of visitors in Linnean Park, thanks to a recent Eagle Scout service project. On May 3, Life Scout and Sidwell Friends junior Ian Condon led almost 20 scouts from his troop in assembling and installing a heavy-duty metal park bench, […]
This dirty job results in cleaner streams
by Marlene Berlin Urban streams need maintenance, particularly those that have been restored after being buried for decades, and engineered to capture, filter and slowly release stormwater. At the daylighted Linnean stream, a contraption called a “bubbler” is fed by heavy and powerful rainstorms. The bubbler consists of a vertical pipe that takes the water […]
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