City Of Fort Worth: Environmental Remediation Done At Old Police And Fire Training Center

Press release from City of Fort Worth:

September 07, 2021

The environmental remediation work at the decommissioned Police and Fire Training Center and an adjacent property has been completed and the report documenting the work has been sent to Texas Commission for Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the Tarrant Regional Water District reported.

Once a certificate of completion is received, the property will be ready for use by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The former city facility at 1000 Calvert St. was decommissioned and personnel were disbursed to other Fort Worth Police Department buildings.

The environmental remediation took place in what will be the southern section of the future Panther Island bypass channel. This work must be completed before the City of Fort Worth can relocate a major sanitary sewer line, making way for construction of this section of the channel.

The property was accepted into the Voluntary Cleanup Program by TCEQ and has an approved Response Action Plan to remediate the site. Project engineers will follow the plan to make it ready for Corps of Engineers use.

So far, more than 300,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil has been removed as part of the project. In addition to removing contaminated soil, remediation efforts have treated and pumped more than 44,000,000 gallons of water.

The cleanup is vital to get the areas of the project up to residential standards and prepared to begin digging the bypass channel.

The primary purpose of the Central City project is to provide Fort Worth with needed flood protection. The Central City Flood Project is limited to infrastructure needed for flood protection. By rerouting a section of the Trinity River, the Corps of Engineers will return flood protection to over 2,400 acres of established Fort Worth neighborhoods.

Photo: Approximately 638 truckloads of contaminated soil were hauled from the site.

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