Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Gravelly This Morning

Yep they're building two places and about to start on the first.  They're both around 15 million gallons.  The rain events that cause the overflow occur about 65 times a year and these would really help.  They're using the same boring machine they used to do the metro so the facility will be a long tunnel.  This is from a meeting I had with george hawkins.

 

On Monday, August 13, 2012 2:51:23 PM UTC-4, Nomad wrote:

As part of that 20 year clean up plan mentioned in the article someone posted, they are constructing what I can only describe as a holding area for storm/waste water runoff on Bolling AFB.  We were told that one of the reasons for this construction effort was because the Blue Plains Water Treatment facility handles both waste water and storm water and easily gets overwhelmed despite being one of the largest in the world.  When the system is over capacity, then they dump the extra into the Potomac.  This happens 180 times a year on average which means it occurs even on days it isn't raining.  There is supposed to be several other holding areas, not just on Bolling, but I don't know where those are located.  These holding areas are underground, the size of  a Metro station, and should be unnoticeable to anyone above ground.  We were told that this effort should reduce the waste/storm water dumping down to around ~10 times each year.  I wish I could point to some source documentation for all of this but I can only relay what the base commander told us.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Charlie Church <charlie...@gmail.com> wrote:

hahahaha, glad i asked.

Waders it is. I figured that would be the answer but was worth questioning.

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