![]() If you prefer to mail your comments, make sure they are postmarked by April 5, 2023, to receive consideration - address is below. You are invited to review the proposal and provide comments and ideas from March 6 through April 5, 2023. Public participation is vital to the planning process. ![]() The planning and environmental compliance process for the proposed seawalls project is funded by the Great American Outdoors Act. Repair, or replace, and widen walkways around the Tidal Basin from eight to twelve feet wide to provide smoother, more accessible connections to other pathways. Tidal Basin is a leading comprehensive emergency and disaster management consulting firm, providing programmatic and technical management experience and resources to governments, organizations. Salvage and reuse stones from the historic wall in the rehabilitated seawalls. Increase the seawall height 4.75 feet within the Tidal Basin and 5.50 feet along West Potomac Park to account for wind and wave conditions along the Potomac River. Rebuild the seawall to include a pile-supported platform foundation that will prevent the seawall from settling and support height extensions of the wall if needed due to future rising sea levels or increasing storm surge elevations. Rehabilitate approximately 6,800 linear feet of seawall along West Potomac Park and portions of the Tidal Basin to extend the seawall's life by approximately 100 years. ![]() ![]() Under the preferred alternative proposed in the EA, the NPS would: In the years since their construction, the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park seawalls have significantly settled and been compromised, leading to overtopping of the seawalls in some sections twice a day during normal tidal conditions and the water does not dissipate in a timely manner due to poor drainage. The public is invited to review the Environmental Assessment (EA) and share comments through April 5. Tidal Basin is the nations leading emergency and disaster management consulting firm providing programmatic and technical management experience and resources to governments, organizations. The National Mall Tidal Basin is a public place like no other in the countryindeed, in the world. The National Park Service (NPS) is inviting comments from the public on the proposed rehabilitation of the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park seawalls. ![]()
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