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Crabtree Valley Sewer Improvements

Improvement project will replace aging materials to meet future infrastructure capacity demand.

Updated: Nov 18, 2025

This project will install roughly 15,000 linear feet of new gravity sewer line—ranging from 36 to 54 inches in diameter—running along Crabtree Creek from the Mine Creek improvements area to just east of Duraleigh Road. Along the way, the route will include six trenchless crossings: one each beneath Glenwood Avenue, Blue Ridge Road, and Creedmoor Road, plus three additional crossings under Crabtree Creek.

The plan also calls for a new, dedicated sewer line behind Crabtree Valley Mall, designed to better serve the mall and its surrounding businesses.

Project Details

 
Type:
Water and Sewer
Budget:
$71,000,000
Project Lead:
Raleigh Water
Contractors:
McKim and Creed Inc

Contact

 

Matthew Cotton, PE
Senior Project Administrator
Phone: 919-996-3528 
Office Location: 1 Exchange Plaza Suite 620
Raleigh, NC 27601

Lead Department:
Water

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Design

Project design phase to be completed during summer 2024.

Lead Department:
Water

Right of Way Acquisition

Current Activities:
- Easement Acquisition 
- Submitting/Processing Required City & State Permit Applications
- Coordinating Stakeholder meetings with various businesses, property owners, City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources along the proposed sewer alignment.

Lead Department:
Water

Construction

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Lead Department:
Water

Complete

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Lead Department:
Water

History

A sewer capacity study identified a portion of the Crabtree Basin sewer near the Crabtree Valley Mall as an area in which the existing system was not adequately sized to meet future flow conditions. Improvements for providing additional system capacity required to convey the future sewer flows were developed for this portion of the Crabtree Basin sewer line. These improvements were identified in the City of Raleigh's Capital Improvement Program as the "Crabtree Valley Sewer Replacement" project.

Schedule

DateActivity
Summer 2024Project Design Complete
Summer 2025Permitting Complete
Fall 2025Easement Acquisition Complete
Winter 2026Project Bid Complete
Summer 2026Project Construction Begins
Summer 2028Project Construction Complete

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