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GHI and Greenbelt press WSSC, county on aging pipes and storm drains as city readies mapping and grant steps
Summary
At a Greenbelt City Council work session, GHI leaders told the council aging supply and waste pipes and failing storm drains are urgent safety and affordability risks; the city said it will reengage engineering firm Charles P. Johnson, draft a letter to WSSC and pursue mapping and grant options.
Emmett Jordan, Greenbelt's mayor, and leaders of Greenbelt Homes, Inc. (GHI) used a council work session to press for concrete steps on aging water infrastructure and stormwater systems that GHI says were installed in the 1930s and are nearing the end of their useful life.
GHI board chair Stefan Bridal and general manager James Claggett told the council their community of about 1,600 members includes roughly 600 homes built in the mid-1930s and 1,000 from the early 1940s. Bridal said a recent internal pipe-replacement pilot went well and GHI hopes to expand interior and exterior pipe replacement to about 100 homes next year.
Why it matters: failing supply and waste lines can cause…
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