Projects

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Mecklenburg County has over three  thousand miles of creeks and tributaries,  
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it also has one of the fastest growing populations  in the country with rapid growth and development  
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more storm water runoff flows into our stream  creating erosion poor water quality and falling  
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trees due to unstable stream banks. Stewart Creek  has been negatively impacted by excessive erosion  
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and Charlotte Mecklenburg Storm Water Services  is working to stabilize improve and enhance the  
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stream for the future project manager Stephanie  Roberts-Bowman explains more about the stream  
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enhancement project. Now we're starting on phase  two which stretches from State Street down to  
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Wilkinson Boulevard is that the stream has been  or the stream beds have been falling in along with  
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trees and what we have found is that there's just  a lot of erosion which we're trying to reduce.  
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While construction in the creek is  extreme and unsightly it will get better.  
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I know that residents are very concerned about  these very large trees coming down and what we  
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want them to know is that while right now it looks  really bad and a lot of the trees are have been  
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removed they will be replanted and they will grow  at least to adult height within two to five years.  
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From March through June this is  what you should expect to see  
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you'll see. A lot of dirt moving around  you'll see a lot of trucks coming in and out  
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and what they'll be doing is moving dirt  around in order to create this trapezoidal  
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cross-section that we're trying to create. By  summer rock and log structures will be going in  
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these features create oxygen and aeration to help  bugs fish and other wildlife return to the stream.  
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Most large trees and shrubs will be  added during the fall planting season  
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so initially in June you may just see temporary  vegetation so the larger trees won't be in  
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a lot of the bushes won't be in but it'll just be  temporary seeding, so you may see small grasses  
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and flowers pop up but that's just temporary and  the permanent vegetation will be coming later. In  
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past projects we have seen all sorts of wildlife  bugs, fish, birds and others return to the area  
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soon after construction is completed. 25 years  from now when we have wonderful functioning  
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streams and our drinking water is much cleaner  we will be very appreciative of these projects  
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so please just hang-in there with us we  try to contain our mess as much as we can  
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and we will return the park and the greenway  and everything to how it was even better before  
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so thank you all for your patience and for  your understanding we really appreciate it.
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