The interim Capital Crescent Trail (CCT) has had a rough go of it over the last year. Back in February the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail, WABA, MoBIKE and other trail advocates called on Montgomery county to fund the paving of the interim CCT east of the Rock Creek Trestle because of the extensive erosion of that portion of the trail. On July 1st it was regraded, but the July rain storm completely destroyed those repairs and by July 4th the trail had failed.
The recent rainstorms have continued to pound the trail and this past weekend the interim CCT was closed (I can't permalink to the CCCT website so this link may be out of date depending on when you click it).
DPWT has placed barriers and yellow warning tape across the trail to close this section of the Interim CCT. Trail users can get by the barriers, but deep ruts and exposed rocks make the trail hazardous to use. Trail users must take care.
The storm drain system that serves the industrial area adjacent to the trail in Lyttonsville regularly overflows. When this happens, the storm water overflow uses the trail bed between the Lyttonsville Place bridge and the Rock Creek trestle as a drainage ditch.
Trail users can expect the trail between the Rock Creek trestle and Lyttonsville to remain in miserable condition until the drainage study is complete and the storm drain problems are corrected, except for occasional minimal repairs.
I'm not a clever west coast water engineer or anything, but it seems that neither regrading nor paving is going to do the trick. They need to find a way to move the water through the area without it going on the trail. They need a series of tubes. Where's Ted Stevens when you need him?
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