The City’s Engineering & Infrastructure Department has been awarded $557,000 from stimulus funding for the second phase of a detention basin project at Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC).

Considered a green project, it will be innovatively built underground and will focus on the area behind Cumberland Hall closest to the Devers Street entrance. Construction is expected to start in October and be completed by January.

The basin will slow water in the drainage system that eventually empties into Branson Creek, which will reduce erosion of the creek. 

Furthermore, the basin is comprised of bottomless chambers that allow stormwater runoff to infiltrate into the ground, acting as a natural filter and removing contaminants.

Water will be harvested for irrigation purposes on campus.

The first phase entailed a basin near the hairpin curve where Devers Street becomes Skye Drive. A third phase includes future work on a parking lot at the corner of Devers Street and Hull Road.