FloodingTuesday, November 10
Charleston celebrated finishing the $198 million Spring-Fishburne drainage project Monday
The Morning Mount Pleasant team
If you drive the Crosstown, this one's for you. City leaders celebrated the completion Monday of the project meant to reduce flooding along Septima P. Clark Parkway. Its William Dudley Gregorie Pump Station moves water into the Ashley River, even during king tides.
The Spring-Fishburne project cost about $198 million and moves 360,000 gallons a minute
- $198 million
- is about what the project cost
- 360,000
- gallons of water per minute the pump station can move
- 18,000
- linear feet of new pipes
Sources: Live 5 News, WCBD News 2
- Tunnel: about a mile and a half, 12 ft and 8 ft wide
- Pumps: tested and operational
- Design: keeps U.S. 17 dry in a 10-year storm
- Next in West Ashley: Windermere under construction, DuPont-Wappoo in design
Flooding won't disappear. Project director Stephen O'Connell said streets should drain faster, with shallower and shorter flooding. The Post and Courier noted the work was plagued by pandemic supply chain issues, cost overruns and labor shortages.
20%of the Charleston peninsula the pump station drains
That's more than 500 acres, according to WCBD, and nearly 550 acres, according to Live 5.
Sources: WCBD News 2, Post and Courier
Sources: Live 5 News, WCBD News 2, Post and Courier