Ground has broken on a project to rehabilitate curbs at a center mall in the Westholme neighborhood, the City of Long Beach announced earlier this week.
The Department of Public Works is performing the initial work of a citywide project at a mall on West Hudson Street, between Lindell and Washington boulevards. The city said the curbs at the grassy malls have been in disrepair for many years.
“This project, which involves rehabilitating the curbs of the malls throughout the city, is part of the 2013-2014 Capital program approved by the City Council in April,” reads the announcement, posted on the city’s website Monday. “$425,000 has been appropriated for this initiative.”
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The city will also initiate a program to remove and replaces trees at the malls this fall, according to the announcement.
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In September, Jim LaCarrubba, the commissioner of public works, announced that the city would start to install leach fields, or septic-type drains, at bioretention areas, specifically the grassy malls, the first of which was slated for installation on West Hudson Street this fall.
“We’re going to dig some of those up and we’re going to put leaching fields underneath to actually hold some of the storm water, so that it has a place to go before it goes out into the channel, so it’s not sitting in the roadways,” LaCarrubba told residents at a West End Neighbors Civic Association meeting at the West End Community Center Sept. 18.The city said the installation of leaching fields is among a series of projects that would address storm-related flooding after Hurricane Sandy battered the beach town last October. The city’s announcement Monday did not mention the leaching fields project.
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