Yesterday workers from the City's Department of Transportation & Environmental Services re-routed a portion of the interim Fort Ward Park storm water management system to try to divert water from the park and Marlboro Estates away from the Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery. Park storm water damage to cemetery graves and gravestones continues to be a concern to community and Oakland Baptist Church officials. The new pipeline appears to take water from the park and several Marlboro Estates contributing homeowners, including Tom Fulton, Chair of the Fort Ward Park & Museum Advisory Group, and channel it through an above-ground pipe along the cemetery fence. The pipe now goes through "The Old Grave Yard" and discharges the water in front of the entrance to the cemetery.
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