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Restoring the Lost Rivers of Washington: Can a city's hydrologic past inform its future?

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dc.contributor.authorMillay, Curtis A.en
dc.contributor.committeechairBork, Dean R.en
dc.contributor.departmentLandscape Architectureen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:33:53Zen
dc.date.adate2006-05-24en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:33:53Zen
dc.date.issued2005-11-15en
dc.date.rdate2006-05-24en
dc.date.sdate2006-04-19en
dc.description.abstractWashington, D.C., like many older U.S. cities, suffers the woes of rapid urbanization and aging infrastructure. The city's combined sewer and stormwater system dumps millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers over 70 times annually during significant rain events. While many groups, both public and private, attempt to clean the river, billions of dollars are still necessary over several years to remedy the combined sewer overfl ow (CSO) problem alone. Current plans for a solution include constructing large underground storage tanks that store millions of gallons of wastewater during overflow periods. Washington, however, once had a network of waterways that naturally drained the Federal City. At least three major stream systems—the Tiber Creek, James Creek and Slash Run—and over 30 springs flowed within the boundaries of the emerging capital. The waterways, now buried, were victims of urbanization, and flow now only underground, wreaking havoc on foundations and basements and causing sewer backups and flooding. Can a historically-driven investigation of these buried channels lend credence to the resurrection in some form of a network of surface stormwater channels, separate from the municipal sewage system, to solve the city's sewage overflow crisis? The following study is an initial exploration of the re-establishment of waterways through Washington with the purpose of improving the current storm sewer overflow dilemma and exploring the potential urban amenities that they could provide as part of a stormwater management plan for the year 2110.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Landscape Architectureen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04192006-101151en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04192006-101151/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/31770en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartMillayFinal.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectstormwater managementen
dc.subjectlandscape architectureen
dc.subjectdaylightingen
dc.subjecturban designen
dc.subjecturban hydrologyen
dc.titleRestoring the Lost Rivers of Washington: Can a city's hydrologic past inform its future?en
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineLandscape Architectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Landscape Architectureen

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