Projects & Initiatives

What can you find in this section?

  • Active Workzones
  • Capital Improvement Program
  • Stimulus funds Projects
    Funds appropriated through the President's budget along with the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and the Clean Water State Revolving Fund are a positive investment providing a healthier environment for those who use and live District of Columbia
  • Long-Term Control Plan
    Check out DC WASA's long-term plans for reducing combined sewer overflows (CSOs) into the local waterways.
  • Anacostia CSO 006
    The Anacostia Combined Sewer Separation Project - CSO 006 was initiated in March 2008 as a component of DC WASA's overall Long Term Control Plan for reducing the overflows of the District's combined sewer system which may discharge stormwater and wastewater runoff into area waterways when it rains.
  • Anacostia First Main Replacement
    This project will replace the existing 12-inch and smaller diameter water mains at various locations in Ward 8.
  • Anacostia Water Main Replacement
    DC WASA has initiated this nearly $20 million project to improve the infrastructure as part of the overall East of the Anacostia Initiative which will allow increased water pressure in the future, provide additional water supply to accommodate high water demands, and better meet public safety needs.
  • Bangor Street
    DC WASA will be performing storm sewer improvements within the Anacostia neighborhood to improve drainage from storm events.
  • Crosstown Water Tunnel
    DC WASA recently discovered a leak coming from the 2.5 mile-long Crosstown Water Tunnel, which is a portion of the Crosstown Water Main.
  • Friendship Heights Large Main Replacement
    As part of DC WASA's Capital Improvement Program, existing 20-inch cast iron water mains will be replaced at various locations in northwest.
  • Oxon Run
    The purpose of this project is to construct a new sewer to serve the Valley Terrace housing development. Sanitary waste from the housing development currently flows in a pipe called the Lower Relief Sewer to a larger Upper Relief Sewer. Parts of the Lower Relief Sewer flow through rare and sensitive magnolia bogs. Through this project, DC WASA will design and construct a new sewer to take the wastewater from Valley Terrace to the Upper Relief Sewer.
  • Pennsylvania Ave, SE Storm Sewer
    DC WASA will be performing storm sewer improvements within the Penn-Branch neighborhood to repair aged storm sewer infrastructure.
  • Pope Branch Rehabilitation
    Over $4 million will be invested in this project which will restore Pope Branch stream to a natural, sustainable waterway, while replacing aged sewage infrastructure that currently runs parallel to the stream.
  • Potomac Interceptor
    The Potomac Interceptor is a 50-mile-long gravity sewer system that transports wastewater to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant.
  • Rock Creek Sewer Separation
    DC WASA is required to separate the single combined sewers into separate sanitary and storm sewers for the drainage basins serving four specific overflow locations.
  • Small Water Main Replacement
    DC WASA will replace existing 12-inch and smaller cast iron water mains in various locations in the SE areas of the city.
  • St. Elizabeths Water Tower
    A two-million-gallon elevated storage tower in the southern portion of Anacostia that will maintain higher and more optimal pressures in the new service area.