$90 Million Contract Awarded for Construction of Stormwater Conveyance System
6/15/2017
The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati has awarded Kokosing Industrial Inc. an $89.9 million construction contract for the Lick Run Greenway Project, a 1.5-mile stormwater conveyance system designed to keep hundreds of millions of gallons of combined sewer overflow out of the Mill Creek.
The Lick Run Greenway Project includes construction of the following:
- Wetland forebay and bioinfiltration basins in old Queen City Avenue area
- Headwaters area east of White Street where the urban waterway starts
- 1 mile of urban waterway, from the Headwaters area to the Pond area east of Harrison
- Improved civic recreation space between Grand and Harrison avenues
- Pond area east of Harrison Avenue
- Stormwater conveyance box underneath the entire system to handle large rainstorms
- Maintenance/Multi-use access paths
- Retaining wall along urban waterway and along Westwood Avenue
- Five vehicle bridges at Harrison Avenue, Grand Avenue, Quebec Road, Van Hart and Kebler
- One pedestrian bridge over the urban waterway in the civic recreation area
- Extensive landscaping and planting along the urban waterway
- Stormwater planters along south side of Queen City Avenue
- Recirculation of water from the pond to the headwaters area
- Associated storm sewers to collect stormwater from the areas adjacent to the Greenway
Construction on the project is expected to start after July 4 and be completed by fall 2019.
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