CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Charleston City Council is set to discuss several stormwater drainage projects Tuesday evening.
One of those projects awaits a new contract after the previous one expired after five years. These are more well known as the historic brick arches that date back to the mid 1800s. The city uses these for drainage that goes back out into the harbor, but before they were for sewage management.
“There’s about ten miles of them underground. We’ve worked through the first couple miles of them, it’s a pretty expensive process as you’d imagine, very complicated,” Matthew Fountain, director of stormwater management, said. “It’s something you see a huge benefit per dollar, it is slow going because you’re working in major downtown streets underground. Trying to close streets and reroute traffic, but we’re trying to get to the point to where we keep making steady progress.”
This contract would be a “reestablishment” of the old contract that capped this project under a stormwater management budget…