Neill public library parking lot scheduled for drain project

Gazette intern reporter

Neill Public Library's parking lot will be modified to upgrade the handling of stormwater runoff. Currently, there are no methods to provide stormwater flow control and treatment of the polluted water runoff from the parking lot.

“We have the funding to do it now,” said Clayton Forsmann, deputy public works director with the City of Pullman. “Funding is in part by Department of Ecology and we received what we needed to begin the project.”

Motley -Motley Inc. will be the construction company heading the building process. There will be permeable pavers, a Filterra tree box, a bioretention swale and a hydrodynamic separator installed to remove pollutants and improve the quality of water flow into the adjacent river. The projected start date is Aug. 8 and is estimated to be complete by Oct. 21.

Throughout the entirety of the project, the library's parking lot will be closed. Tokens will be provided for library goers to ride Pullman transit, courtesy of Friends of Neill Public Library. Two hour parking will also be available through other downtown businesses in the Riverwalk lot on Kamiaken Street by Spot Shop Cleaners; parking lot on Davis Way and Grand Avenue; parking lot on Whitman Street by Allegra Printing and street side parking along Davis way.