The Bridgeville Planning Commission will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 8 to review a flood alleviation plan for the Baldwin Street corridor.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the borough building.
This meeting was originally scheduled for last month, but the borough’s environmental planning consultant was unavailable.
The $30 million Baldwin Street Conceptual Plan is an attempt to reduce Bridgeville’s flood risk by radically reshaping the topography of the Baldwin Street and Bower Hill Road areas.
Planning commission chair John McCans recently outlined the project as:
It involves removing the northern side of Baldwin Street as we now know it. All of those properties, content, and land would be turned into a holding pond of sorts. McLaughlin Creek as we know it would be reconfigured to add more esses to hold more water…
At the same time, Bower Hill Road would be reconfigured… and Baldwin Street as we know it would go away. There would be a roundabout in front of PJ’s Deli, where Pro-Tech Auto Glass is. It would circle through Bruce’s Auto, go on down Baldwin as we know it, circle to the Beer Warehouse and go to another roundabout near Silhol’s…
The creek would be deepened, dredged, essed, etc…
The southern side of Baldwin would be opened for redevelopment down the road. First, the north side would be a short-term project, with the southern side being a long-term project.