Oshkosh stormwater project underway

OSHKOSH - Construction work to help reduce street flooding in Oshkosh is underway.
    
The city is spending $3.9 million to build an underground stormwater detention tank in the City Hall parking lot.
    
Access to City Hall will be limited until the project is completed in November.

Much of the parking lot was barricaded Monday in preparation for the project.
    
City officials say it's a better option than an open pond elsewhere in the city. 

"We didn't want to take out a half a neighborhood block in an area that we are very committed to restoring so we felt it was best to be a little imaginative and use our City Hall parking lot which needed to be repaved anyway, so we are getting a pond with a brand new parking lot,” said Mark Rohloff, Oshkosh city manager.
    
Visitors are encouraged to use street parking and nearby city owned parking lots.