(Washington, DC) – DC Water is performing construction activities on Florida Avenue, NW as part of the Clean Rivers Project.

Beginning Friday, May 23, 2014 through Tuesday, May 27, 2014, weather permitting, crews will be drilling two site borings on Florida Avenue between Rhode Island Avenue and 3rd Street as part of ongoing field investigations preceding construction on the Northeast Boundary Tunnel. There will be closure of one eastbound travel lane on Florida Avenue during work hours, which will temporarily reduce eastbound travel to one lane. Work hours will be from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Important Information:
* There will be no work performed on weekends or public holidays.
* Delays within the vicinity of the project area are anticipated.

Temporary traffic signs have been set up throughout the area to alert motorists to the upcoming lane shift. To keep everyone safe, motorists should stay alert and obey the posted speed limits when traveling through this area.

Project Details
DC Water is implementing the DC Clean Rivers Project for the District’s combined sewer system which comprises 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 entire 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.