Neighborhood Meeting to Discuss Storage Conduit Project

Portland, Maine - Public meeting to discuss installation of underground storage tanks and traffic control plans for Baxter Boulevard.


What:   Next week, the City of Portland’s Department of Public Services will host a second neighborhood meeting to discuss the Baxter Boulevard North Storage Conduit project, which is intended to capture and reduce the volume of combined sewer overflow released into the Back Cove. The meeting will focus on traffic control options for the project, which involves the installation of an underground concrete box conduit able to store up to two million gallons of combined wastewater that can then be sent to the East End Wastewater Treatment Facility instead of being discharged untreated into Back Cove.  Two separate one million gallon conduits will be installed, one located under Baxter Boulevard and the other under Payson Park. As a result this winter, a section of Baxter Boulevard between Vannah Street and Bates Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic for up to eight months. Motorists will be detoured. Pedestrians, runners and bicyclists will continue to have access to the trail system while construction is underway.