Name
Trinity River Corridor Project Tour
Date & Time
Thursday, August 31, 2023, 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Description

End your time at StormCon with a tour of the Trinity River Corridor. Following the Thursday afternoon sessions, attendees can register for a tour of this recreation area and learn how the Trinity River Corridor project brought greenspace to the metro area and made the city more flood resilient. The tour will include stops at the following locations: The Pavaho Pump Station is located at the foot of the west levee in Dallas. The station expanded the City’s ability to respond to storms that created neighborhood flooding in a three-square-mile drainage basin in the West Dallas community. Built in 2012, the high capacity station pumps at 375,000 gallons of water per minute. The Ronald Kirk Bridge, part of the Trinity River Project, is a pedestrian bridge over the Trinity River that connects Downtown and West Dallas. It parallels the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge for vehicular traffic. The Pavaho Wetlands are approximately 64 acres of wetlands consisting of four separate cells, one of which is an eight-acre pretreatment wetland cell within a sump to provide water quality improvement for storm flows collected in the Pavaho sump. The other three wetland cells create diverse, quality wetland habitat for many migratory, resident wildlife and bird species in the heart of the city just two miles from Dallas City Hall.