Rabbit Pond Drainage Design May Stop Flooding
A new drainage design may stop flooding at Rabbits Pond but funding for the project is still unknown.
A new drainage design may stop Rabbit Pond from overflowing but the pond owner, Phillips Academy, is still looking for funds to construct the new design features. A storm overflow and redesigned drainage system are the subject of an engineering study done in response to the one-hundred-year storm that caused flooding on adjacent properties by Rabbit Pond at Phillips Academy Andover earlier this year. The two-acre pond on the academy property overflowed as it quickly filled during the heavy rains and that overflow flooded parts of Morton Street and adjacent properties. The engineering firm, Nitsch Engineering at Lincoln Street, Boston, said that increased outlets for the pond's overflow might solve the problem. In their proposed design , …
