Washington Harbour Floodwall

Tue 13 May 2008 8:22:35

Walking along the river to work through the heavy rain yesterday, I stumbled across a Washington Harbour feature of which I had not been previously aware: a floodwall!

The river was indeed fairly high (just over six feet, even higher than the last time I recorded a Potomac high tide), but still not swamping the riverside as I've heard it's done in the past. The floodwall protects the sunken restaurant-and-fountain area which sits beneath the waterline, but also blocks my route to and from work, so when it's up I have to circle around the Harbour to one of the side streets -- which slope up to K Street, in case you were wondering about the flood being able to go up those to.

Photos were taken with my Nokia 6120c in panorama mode.