In addition, DCWASA’s finances are not part of the District’s overall budget; funding for operations, improvements and debt financing now comes through user fees, grants and the sale of revenue bonds.

finally, you gotta a question? call 3-1-1. they’ll answer it.

Kathie’s a nice lady, no need to look her up really, her house is at the right edge of your picture. The one next to the one with all the bikes. But maybe try WASA first. Or email Jim Graham at jim@grahamwone.com — he’s not only your council member, he’s also the chair of public works and transport. Jim will almost always get back to you within 24 hours, if you’d taken the time to email or call him rather than whining to your poor coworkers or emailing PoP you’d probably have an answer right now as to why these repairs were done at night.

But the rain stopped on Saturday. It’s been unseasonably warm this week, and as I previously mentioned, and as you confirmed, 17th between Crescent and Kalorama has next to no traffic on a busy day. It would inconvenience two dozen people at the max, who are used to having their parking inconvenienced by bar patrons in Adams Morgan and the Meridian Center. It’s no big deal.

As for ::gasp:: “asking,” well, I went to PoP. I don’t know who ANC rep Kathie Boettrich is, and I thought maybe this blog would be a good place to find answers. Thank you. I’ll look up ANC rep Kathie Boettrich and ask first why it makes economic sense to do this work at night instead of during the day when this street is actually less busy, and second, why it’s acceptable to do this work at 2:30 in the morning at all, after the emergency has been dealt with four days earlier. I really can’t believe you’re not coming down on the right side of this. Seriously. Jackhammers at 2:30 in the morning when they wasted 3 perfectly fine weekday afternoons not doing this work really makes no sense, no matter how great a job they performed Saturday.

As for her 30 feet, I’d have given anything for 30 feet last night. That picture was from my bedroom window. That hole is literally ten feet from where I try to sleep at night. But a coworker put it perfectly today–DC has to go out of their way to piss you off. That’s the only way you can tell they’re doing anything. That and parking tickets.

I don’t know why the current work is going on at night, though when I get home I think I might ::gasp:: ask them. You could also talk to ANC rep Kathie Boettrich, whose front door is about 30 feet from the hole.

Re: POP’s questions about cars getting by, it would be zero problem logistically to do it during the day, people would have to drive the wrong way up 17th to get to about 15 residences but about 10% of the traffic on the road is people going the wrong way anyway.

Web: http://www.dcwasa.com
Phone: 202-787-2000 (M-F 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
Water and Sewer Emergency Number (24 hour): 202-612-3400

having been through the excitement several times of water main breaks, once DCWASA goes into the ground, repairs can become much more extensive than they had hoped for as they often do more than just make a quick repair, they’ll make more complete repairs to replace old pipes and valves to help make sure that the break doesn’t happen again.

we enjoyed street disruptions for several months as one major repair ended up continued on as DCWASA waited on a 125-year-old valve to be custom built.