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City has plan to address Delta Avenue area flooding

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CINCINNATI -- City officials have a plan they hope will reduce flooding in the Delta Avenue area of Columbia-Tusculum.

The city, Metropolitan Sewer District and a developer with plans in the area will install a 48-inch pipe to collect storm water and allow it to bypass the main sewer line in the area from Lawler Avenue to near Columbia Parkway, City Manager Harry Black wrote in a memo to the mayor and council Thursday.

The three groups also plan to eliminate a dam south of the proposed development which should reduce the size of the "bowl" between Hoge Street and Delta Avenue, Black wrote.

The plans should reduce flooding issues in the area but won't eliminate them altogether, according to the memo. The Crawfish Creek ran through the are until it was piped up in the early 1900s and the "bowls" are still the lowest topographical points in the area.

A proposed timeline has work beginning in June 2018. 

Follow up on Delta/Empress/Hoge/Widman flooding issues by WCPO Web Team on Scribd