Consultation Meeting on the Potomac Park Levee Project

The National Park Service will host a meeting on Monday, July 7 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. at their National Capital Region Headquarters, 1100 Ohio Drive S.W., Classroom B in Washington, D.C. to solicit public comments on alternatives for the construction of improvements to the Potomac Park Levee system.

Improvements are currently being planned for the section of the levee system that extends from 23rd Street, NW, parallel to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and ends on the Washington Monument Grounds east of 17th Street. The project’s goal is to achieve more reliable flood protection in the area and to meet the current post-Katrina flood protection standards of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Federal Emergency Management Agency. The meeting is intended to fulfill the public consultation requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and will focus specifically on the potential effect of the preliminary project alternatives upon nearby historic properties.

We look forward to receiving public comments and suggestions.

Further information can be found at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?parkID=427&projectId=22260.