Greenbelt Historic District’s Roosevelt Center is getting a spruce-up this week as workers lay down new cement slabs. The work comes in an effort to clean up soil degradation which creates cavities in the soil. The degradation has accumulated over the years due to rain and possible drainage issues. The problem was discovered as workers cleaned the Mother and Child statue and had to redo some of the concrete pieces surrounding the figure.
“The efforts are to remediate and stabilize the soils,” said Brian Kim, Greenbelt Public Works assistant director. He said that the work will hopefully only be a little longer, but was unable to give a concrete finish date. “We’re on the tail end of it,” he added.
