Huge tunnel 100 feet underneath Dallas aims to improve the city's drainage

The drainage tunnel will help manage stormwater for a third of the city and protect hundreds of homes and businesses currently at risk of flooding.

The Mill Creek Tunnel project is nearing completion, but voters will decide Saturday whether to approve an addition $20 million to design a future phaseDALLAS — The massive Mill Creek tunnel winding underneath Dallas may be the biggest project city leaders hope you never have to think about. will help manage stormwater for a third of the city -- and protect hundreds of homes and businesses currently at risk of flooding.

"In these drainage basins we’re seeing widespread flooding that goes into houses and scenarios where we’ve had loss of life," said Dallas Water Utilities Interim Director Sarah Standifer."When the tunnel is in place, it’ll be able to take all of that rainwater." The Mill Creek tunnel will help alleviate flood concerns in Downtown, East and South Dallas, but the wider watershed project to help neighborhoods on the north side of the tunnel is still pending.

"It will impact their lives, it will improve the drainage, reduce the flooding and hopefully it’ll serve the citizens for years to come," said Mill Creek project manager Milton Brooks."This is just the first phase of a much larger system or projects."

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