Lake Bradford/Chubb Lake
Projects to alleviate widespread flooding due to moderate rain events and significant high tides from the Chesapeake Bay.
Projects to alleviate widespread flooding due to moderate rain events and significant high tides from the Chesapeake Bay.
These projects will alleviate the widespread flooding that impacts the Bradford Acre neighborhood, Shore Drive, Lake Bradford, Lake Chubb, Church Point and Thoroughgood neighborhoods, portions of Pleasure House Road, and Northampton Boulevard, as well as adjacent properties and downstream properties.
Storm drainpipe improvements, additional stormwater culverts under highways, tide control devices such as mechanized sluice gates, stormwater pond improvements, channel/ditch clearing, detention and retention ponds, and possible stormwater pump stations.
Improvements to include, but are not limited to, property acquisitions, stormwater pump stations, construction of detention/retention ponds, barriers and gates, storm drainpipe and structure improvements, culvert improvements, channel improvements, channel/ditch clearing, and roadway improvements.
Installation of storm drain pipes from Lake Pleasure House to the existing stormwater pump station to allow the water levels within the lake to be better maintained.
Improving the flow characteristics of the two fingers of Lake Bradford by dredging to restore the ditches to their original drainage capacity.