Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 5 The College Today 5-B-3 May, 2023 ultimately create a loop of the water system that provides redundancy in the system. Sanitary sewer combined within the campus, and the Frederick County Public Schools building and then discharged from the campus via an 8” pipe to the main within Opossumtown Pike. Electrical service is connected to a two utility poles along Opossumtown Pike. One pole is on the southside of the main driveway and the other is just north of the stormwater pond. These systems appear to provide some redundancy for power to the campus. Communication service is routed from one pole on the northside of the main driveway from Opossumtown Pike. There is no redundancy in this system that can be of utmost importance to the campus from a telecommunications / security perspective. Gas service is provided from a 6” line that is on the extreme northern end of the campus connected to the Washington Gas line with Opossumtown Pike. A chilled water system also feeds from Building D to the main buildings within the campus core. The storm drainage network for the entire campus and the Frederick County Public Schools campus is routed to the existing dry pond located just north of the main driveway into the campus. Most of the system on the south and west side of the campus are comprised of closed drain systems, there is no visible evidence of ponding or degradation of this system. The western and northern portion of the campus is comprised of open/closed system, with culverts routing water under driveways and walkways to incoming/outgoing channels. The channels appear to be functioning as designed. There is a channel that drains from the maintenance shop that is showing signs of excessive erosion and may need to be expanded or converted to a properly sized closed drain system. Alternatively, consideration should be given to converting open section channels into more natural stream channels to provide enhanced water quality treatment as well as providing for further disposition of storm event velocities. The existing dry pond appears to be functioning as designed and looks well maintained. This pond captures all of the stormwater for the campus and routes it under Opossumtown Pike and ultimately it connects to the Little Tuscarora Creek which is part of the Monocacy River Drainage Basin. Newer improvements (less than 10 years old) are also improved with small stormwater quality facilities to provide at point source pollution control for their drainage area. Any improvements to the campus will also need to provide associated water quality treatment controls.
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