Excerpt from the Commercial Dispatch, November 23, 2016. Read the full article here.
Work on the Seventh Avenue ditch environmental remediation project is moving at a quicker pace than expected.
The $3.3 million project is addressing 930 feet of the ditch from a box culvert near Maranatha Faith Center to a separate culvert where Seventh Avenue North connects to Propst Park because of environmental contamination.
Lauri Gorton, director of environmental programs/senior strategist and project manager for Columbus with the Greenfield Environmental Multistate Trust, said the project has progressed well since work began earlier in the fall.
"The first thing we did was go in and excavate the bottom of the ditch and remove creosote," Gorton said. "I believe all of the cleanup work at the ditch is very close to done."
Once the excavation is complete, crews place a new rock lining along the ditch's bottom and install box culverts. Contaminated sediment is disposed of at the Golden Triangle Regional Landfill.