City workers from the Department of Transportation & Environmental Services began storm water improvements today to the intermittent stream channel that runs through Fort Ward Park. The stream, which drains areas of Episcopal High School, Fort Ward Park and Marlboro Estates, periodically causes ponding and flooding on park and private homeowner properties. City workers excavated years of silt, from soil erosion, as well as organic matter from around the base of the storm water sewer. Workers were surprised to see that there is a lower opening to the sewer that was completed buried. The work will continue today and tomorrow and will include adding rip-rap in front of the sewer, regrading the side slopes of the ravine, and seeding the overturned soil.
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