CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Charleston city leaders celebrated the completion of the city’s largest stormwater project, an approximately $198 million effort more than two decades in the making.
The U.S. 17 Spring/Fishburne Drainage Improvement Project includes the William Dudley Gregorie Pump Station, which can move 360,000 gallons of water per minute into the Ashley River.
“The pump station is just the tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of the project is underground,” said Steve Kirk, a stormwater project management practice lead. “We’ve got about a mile and a half of tunnel, 12 ft and 8 ft in diameter. We’ve got 18,000 linear feet of new pipes, new boxes that extends throughout the Spring and Fishburne Street drainage basins.”…