Design plans are now complete for a stormwater improvement project planned in the Mark Twain neighborhood. The City is currently working on acquiring the necessary easements to construct the project which is still anticipated to begin in 2021.
In early 2020, City consultant Great River Engineering completed design plans for the project, located roughly along Westwood Avenue and Seminole Street between the intersections of Westwood Avenue and Wayland Avenue and Seminole Street and Nettleton Avenue.
The area has experienced historic flooding into crawlspaces, frequent street flooding along Nettleton and Westwood, as well as the overflowing of the detention basin at Seminole and Nettleton.
“Our goal is to provide additional stormwater conveyance from the detention basin at Seminole and Nettleton to reduce the number of times the basin overtops and flows down Nettleton, flooding homes along the way,” explains Public Works project manager Zachary Mills.
The project will utilize new underground storm pipe and inlets to allow for proper drainage. Additional detention volume may also be provided through the excavation of the detention basin at Wayland and Westwood.
The estimated cost of the stormwater improvements is $489,000 funded through the 2017 renewal of Springfield’s Level Property Tax.