Project Overview

Phase MI-8/9 spans from the south end of MI-7 in Roosevelt Zoo and south of Burdick Expressway East past 8th Avenue SE, where it will tie into high ground.

This project will feature a newly raised and lengthened Burdick Expressway Bridge, a road raise or closure on 8th Avenue SE, overbank excavation, concrete floodwalls, earthen levees, roadway changes, utilities, a pond, and stormwater pump station with gatewell. The earthen levees will be seeded and become a natural green space.

When completed, these phases will complete Milestone 2 of the MREFPP, which will remove the protected area from the proposed FEMA floodplain. All the enhanced flood protection projects currently under construction, and those under design, provide protection against a repeat of the 2011 flood event.
 

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