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The best spot for a pool at Hearst would have been immediately below the park shelter SW of the Hearst school.  It would have been some distance from most houses, have required little tree removal, and an elevator tower would not have been necessary.  It would have been adjacent to the playground, a bonus.  And pool users who drive could have parked in the school parking lot during the summer.  A win-win.[/quote]

There were engineering reasons why it couldn't be located there. Yes, that was one of the early, preferred locations.[/quote]

I fought hard against that location. The field at Hearst is a large urban green space. They are few and far between. Placing the pool where the tennis courts are ensured that we would not lose more. Yes, we lost trees, but that was better than pouring concrete on open space. I did not support a pool in the first place, but once the decision was made by DC gov't to  build, this was the best compromise. I don't know what they are going to do about all the water. I assume it will be piped underground and the evidence of the environmental havoc will be hidden.[/quote]

Piped to where, exactly?  One of the problems that DDOT identified with Connecticut Avenue drainage -- manifested most notably by the flooding of parts of the Cleveland Park Metro station during very heavy rainfall -- is that the storm drain infrastructure from Wisconsin down to Connecticut Avenue is only 6 inch pipes under many streets.  The DDOT plan to fix drainage on Connecticut Ave in Cleveland Park only deals with the avenue portion.  Pumping runoff and surface water, which clearly has been exacerbated by the Hearst Park construction, will only exacerbate the drainage infrastructure problems from the Hearst Park down to Connecticut Avenue.  DDOT has no plan to dig up and replace the storm water pipes in this area, unless Bowser and Cheh come up with a large, unplanned appropriation.   The Hearst water situation is a debacle of Cheh's own doing, as both she and DPR were put on notice that a hydrology study needed to be done and mitigation measures implemented.  And a seventh grade earth science student could have told them that basically clear cutting the slopes of the park would exacerbate the runoff problem.[/quote]

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