Flooded trails and full toilets: Storms wreak havoc on D.C.-area parks
The deluge of storms throughout the Washington area over the past several months has done more than ruin summer plans — it has wreaked millions of dollars in damage to the region’s national park land.
Weather-related damage this year is among the worst in recent memory, officials said, and has forced the National Park Service to brainstorm strategies for maintenance and upkeep amid shrinking budgets.
Parks in the Washington region have been pummeled by storms since early spring, Park Service officials said, causing floods, downed trees, washed-out trails and waterways so bloated that repairs have been nearly impossible.
In many cases, the damage has outpaced the agency’s ability to fund fixes and hampered basic maintenance tasks such as cutting grass and emptying toilets.
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