(Washington, DC) – DC Water will be performing construction activities on and adjacent to Rhode Island Avenue as part of the Clean Rivers Project.

Beginning Friday, February 22, 2013 through July 2013, weather permitting, crews will be working in seventeen locations from 6th Street, NW to the Rhode Island Avenue Metro Station.

This work will be performed in support of the Northeast Boundary Tunnel portion of the Clean Rivers Project. In preparation for future tunnel construction, crews will be drilling at several locations as part of needed field investigations.

Daily hours of operation on Rhode Island Avenue at First Street, NW and Lincoln Road, NE will be from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Work at all remaining locations will be from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

Important Information:
* Traffic will be maintained on Rhode Island Avenue and
adjacent streets while this portion of the work takes
place.
* Some traffic stops and delays within the vicinity of the
work zones are anticipated.
* 24-hour parking restrictions will be in effect within
each work zone for a period of approximately two weeks.
* 24-hour staging for the drilling operations will be
located at each work site for approximately two weeks.

Temporary traffic signs have been set up throughout the area to alert motorists to the upcoming traffic changes.

Project Details:
DC Water is implementing its Clean Rivers Project for the District’s combined sewer system. The project includes a system of tunnels and diversion sewers for the capture of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) to Rock Creek and the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers for treatment at DC Water’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Clean Rivers Project will reduce CSOs annually by 96 percent throughout the system and by 98 percent for the Anacostia River alone.

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About DC Water
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water), is an industry leading multi-jurisdictional regional utility that provides drinking water, wastewater collection and treatment to 600,000 residential, commercial and governmental customers in the District of Columbia, 17.8 million annual visitors and also collects and treats wastewater for 1.6 million customers in Montgomery and Prince Georges counties in Maryland and Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia.

DC Water’s service area covers approximately 725 square miles and the company operates the world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 370 million gallons per day and a peak capacity of 1.076 billion gallons per day.

Please visit dcwater.com/cleanrivers for more information on the Clean Rivers Project.