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Green Infrastructure Project: Town Fork Creek

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Update Presentation on Thursday, July 30, 2026

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KC Water is undertaking a green infrastructure and stormwater collection system project in the Town Fork Creek Watershed, with Daniel Morgan Boone Park near the intersection of 63rd Street and Woodland Avenue being a prime location for green infrastructure. This project will largely utilize green infrastructure and native plants to help absorb excess stormwater and collect, treat and infiltrate stormwater runoff.

Stormwater from the areas surrounding Daniel Morgan Boone Park will be collected and separated from the combined sewer system and conveyed to the project as green infrastructure components. This major, multi-year Smart Sewer program project will be designed and constructed in multiple phases. When complete, this project will help protect our community’s environment by capturing stormwater before it enters the combined sewer system, which will lessen the sewer overflows into local waterways.

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What are the project boundaries?

  • North: 55th Street
  • South: Gregory Boulevard
  • East: Bruce R Watkins Drive
  • West: Morningstar Drive

What’s being done?

For the preliminary design phase of this project, KC Water plans to:

  • Conduct extensive public engagement, stakeholder engagement and multi-department coordination to layer additional community benefits into the project
  • Perform and analyze results of field investigation data to understand soil, bedrock and groundwater qualities and provide recommendations and design criteria for construction
  • Evaluate design alternatives for the project, which will incorporate green infrastructure and stormwater collection
  • Develop a preliminary design of the recommended design alternative

What’s the timeline?

The project kicked off in the spring of 2023, utilizing flow monitoring data and other screening criteria, along with public engagement, to reach a 10% conceptual design.

Phase II began in January of 2026. By the end of the year, the project will reach 100% design and is anticipated to go out to bid for construction in late 2026/early 2027.

Why is Green Infrastructure part of this?

The 2012 Overflow Control Plan called for very expensive underground tunnel systems to store and convey wet weather sewer flows. The City’s Third Amended Consent Decree, finalized in March 2021, allows for the use of adaptive management to evaluate alternative cost-effective solutions. A Conceptual Engineering Report was developed to integrate green infrastructure and stormwater collection systems to eliminate the need for large underground tunnel systems. 

Green infrastructure helps our community manage stormwater the way nature intended by capturing and utilizing rainwater where it falls. It decreases the amount of water getting into our sewer system, improves water quality, and reduces flooding, pollution, and trash in our creeks, streams, and rivers. Green infrastructure is also a starting place for other important community improvements, including replacement of sidewalks, expanding the tree canopy, and creating new amenities that benefit your community.

Who’s doing the work?

KC Water will be assisted by the Smart Sewer program manager, Burns & McDonnell, and its design professional team led by Black & Veatch. KC Water is coordinating with other City departments to bring integrated public infrastructure investments to the project.

What’s the contract amount?

The estimated construction cost for this project is $80,000,000.

Questions? To learn more please contact:

LANIE CARL
Project Engineer
KC Water
(816) 513-0159
lanie.carl@kcmo.org

ANDY SHIVELY
Deputy Director
KC Water 
(816) 513-0304
Andy.Shively@kcmo.org