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RATE THE SERVICE YOU RECEIVEDGreen Infrastructure Project 1-1: Mill Creek Park
Phase One Construction Underway!
KC Water is undertaking a green infrastructure project in Mill Creek Park. This project will largely utilize bioretention basins filled with native plants to help absorb excess stormwater. These elements will collect, treat, and infiltrate stormwater runoff. When complete, this project will help protect our community’s environment by capturing stormwater before it enters the combined sewer system, which will reduce the volume of sewer overflows into local waterways.
Project Links:
- Download the July 10, 2025 Public Meeting slides
- Download the project fact sheet
- Watch the November 23, 2021 Public Meeting
- Find out more about the Smart Sewer program
- Find out more about KC Green Infrastructure
What’s being done?
KC Water's improvements include:
- Building stormwater storage basins to divert stormwater runoff previously separated from the combined sewer system
- Using native plantings to assist with reducing stormwater runoff
- Park improvements including seating areas and additional walkways around the park.
What’s the timeline?
The project has been split into three phases. The first phase, the North Plaza, includes decorative paving, seating areas, and retaining walls. This phase began late summer of 2025 and is expected to be complete by late-April, 2026, weather and unforeseen circumstances permitting.
Phase two construction will begin in late-summer 2026 and includes construction of the stormwater storage basins and additional walkways, seating areas, and retaining walls.
Phase three will begin at the conclusion of phase two and includes plantings within the stormwater storage basins and tree platings around the perimeter of the site.
Who’s doing the work?
KC Water will be assisted by its program manager, Burns & McDonnell, and its design professional team led by HDR Inc. The construction contractor for Phase 1 of the project is MegaKC.
What’s the contract amount?
The estimated cost of the first phase of construction is $2.25 million.
Why are we doing this?
In 2010, the City of Kansas City, Missouri entered into a federal Consent Decree with the United States Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the volume of overflows from the City's sewer system. KC Water's Smart Sewer program is a multi-decade effort to address this challenge through 2040.
Questions? To learn more please contact:
Craig Rhodes
SPP Project Manager
Vireo
(816) 777-3007
craig@bevireo.com
Drew Taylor
Field Operations Manager
Burns & McDonnell
(785) 845-5588
agtaylor@burnsmcd.com
Michael Jensen
Construction Project Manager
MegaKC
(816) 543-0292
mjensen@megakc.com
Joe Raach
Resident Project Representative
Tailiaferro &Browne
(816) 985-8673
jraach@tb-engr.com
Andy Shively
Deputy Director
KC Water
(816) 513-0304
Andy.Shively@kcmo.org