Stakes marked l.o.d. surround the work zone at one of six new facilities contracted by the Water and Sewer Authority to vacuum and charcoal-filter malodorous air emanating from the Potomac Interceptor, a 50 mile long gravity sewer on national and regional park properties in Maryland, DC and VA leading to Blue Plains treatment plant. Slated for completion by November 2011by WASA, the Angler's site is still under construction, apparently on holiday break 12/29/11.
The construction schedule allowed "sufficient time to reproduce a[n unnamed] rare, endangered and threatened plant that is located" at one site. I wonder which plant and hope it worked out.
Perhaps this scheme is a good one, but in the mean time visual disturbance assaults the senses like air wafting humidly, putridly and incongrously from vents in the woods. The new building, designed to look like a lockhouse, and the $3.36 million repair to the 2008 canal breach associated with Hurricane Hannah form a continuous construction site. More trees appear doomed with orange x's.
Beyond the unsettling limits of disturbance, a visit to trees and rocks photographed before in search of green.
No thrilling images here, just change and what remains on a visit to an old same place.
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