Charleston marks completion of the Spring/Fishburne drainage project

The City of Charleston will cut the ribbon on the U.S. 17 Spring/Fishburne Drainage Improvement Project at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the William Dudley Gregorie Pump Station, 135 Lockwood Drive. Five phases, almost 40 years in the making, built to cut the frequency, length and severity of flooding on Septima P. Clark Parkway and across the Spring and Fishburne drainage basins.

Why this matters here

Crosstown flooding has cost downtown businesses staff hours, deliveries and walk-in traffic for decades. A pump station rated at 360,000 gallons a minute changes the odds on a rainy Tuesday, and that is worth knowing if you run a shop or an office near that corridor.