Current Conditions

The Harness Creek Overlook community's stormwater pond has nearly completely filled in with sediment, negating its ability to treat stormwater.

In partnership with the Harness Creek Overlook community, Arundel Rivers is retrofitting an aged stormwater pond in the community in order to improve water quality downstream and abate further erosion. Built in the 1990s, the pond is not up to current standards and has significant sediment build up, which occurred during the original development of the community. As a result, stormwater treatment volume is reduced and a lack of native plants provides little habitat value. The pond area will be retrofitted into a habitat-rich wet pond system planted densely with native vegetation. Downstream of the pond is currently eroding, sending sediment loads into Harness Creek. A step pool stormwater conveyance (SPSC) will be installed to abate erosion in that channel which will provide further water quality treatment. The riffle weirs of the SPSC will work to slow the erosive flows while the pools will offer new habitat in the final stretch of the project.