Rock Creek Park Bridge Project - District of Columbia
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In 2014, the Student Conservation Association (SCA) was awarded a grant from the District Department of Transportation to complete a variety of technical projects in the community and national parks in Washington, DC. The majority of the funding was awarded to build four bridges along with the Rock Creek Park trail system.
As the largest park in DC with over 40 miles of paved and natural surface trails, Rock Creek Park provides residents of the District with various recreation opportunities and access to natural areas. SCA has been working with the National Park Service in DC for over 15 years to maintain trails in the park. SCA crews completed a variety of projects designated in the Rock Creek Trail plan with an emphasis on providing safe and well-signed access to park trails for residents in and around surrounding communities.
With this focus, SCA and Rock Creek Crew Park began the process of designing access bridges and developing a work plan in the winter of 2014. SCA wanted to use their crew based model of youth and young adults, all between the ages of 15-24, to complete the bridge construction and restoration projects.
Representing the Student Conservation Association and the SCA Crew, left to right: Tom Mason; Michael Cronin; Kenneth Alvarado; Monique Dailey, SCA D.C. Area Programs Manager; Abigail Brokaw, SCA D.C. Area Program Coordinator; Rachel Lettre, SCA Eastern Program Director; and Anthony Peters; At far right are Duane Taylor, CRT Vice Chair , and Barbara McCann, Office of the Secretary, USDOT
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