Actually, you can see it right across from Maxwell Place at Maxwell Street. You can almost drive a car down the access ramp they made for the construction vehicles. I don't think they are done yet, but haven't been back there in a few days.

... the next public meeting to discuss the sewage problem. It will be on July 12 at 6:30 p.m. in Holy Family University’s Education and Technology Center.
"The water department, in seeking a solution for the overflow situation in the Poquessing Interceptor, has proposed a corrective action plan," Harney told the Northeast Times on Friday. "One of the details of the (plan) was to install that overflow tank. They’ve revised their (plan) due to the unpopularity of the overflow tank and the new city ordinance."

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The new fix is a two-mile-long pipe that would run mostly along State Road from Fitler Street to Pennypack Street. Installation of the relief sewer probably wouldn’t begin for about two years. Work would be completed in one- or two-block segments and could take another 18 months to two years.

The newly proposed relief sewer would connect to the Poquessing Interceptor near Grant Avenue and James Street. Its diameter would be 54 inches at the connection point and gradually expand to an 8-by-12-foot "box" sewer. From Grant and James, it would run south on James, east on Fitler and south on State, ending at State and Pennypack. It would hold about 3.75 million gallons. The water department did not disclose an estimated cost of the project.

In response to questions about the impact of new development on the overflow problem, Philadelphia Water Department officials insisted that new connections, such as those planned for the 400-home Byberry development, do not have an impact.

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