New drainage system for Duck pushed back til fall
Published March 26, 2008 by Sabrina GordonAfter bad storms highway N.C.12 at the intersection of Tuckahoe Drive and Duck Road is flooded for days. The long-term solution that raises the road and includes installing a infiltration system that was originally planned to be completed by Memorial Day is now put off until the fall.
A drainage system was installed in 2003 by the state Department of Transportation, but storm-water runoff is too much for it to handle. The town’s storm-water study completed in 2006 found that 40 percent of the runoff pooling at the Tuckahoe intersection was coming from the Tuckahoe subdivision, 20 percent from Bias Shores and Seahawk subdivisions and the rest from the road and the right-of-way. Engineers have designed a new system that raises the road 2 feet and uses infiltration chambers in the right-of-way that hold water and allow it to drain into the soil.
Until the new system is installed the town will continue pumping storm water when necessary. The town has leased a vacant lot near there for $4,700 a year and have dug a dry pond to pump the water into. The Tuckahoe property owner’s association has been asked by the town to install it’s own storm water management system to keep the water from draining onto N.C.12.
The project which is expected to take about six months is estimated to cost $872,296. The DOT would handle the contracting, the bidding and most, if not all the costs. Plans would provide a temporary lane in the right-of-way to allow both lanes to stay open. Even in the off-season the road is used heavily on the weekends and holidays.
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