Codorus Greenway

May 17, 2022 - Kevin Schreiber, President and CEO of the York County Economic Alliance, updated us on the Codorus Creek Beautification Initiative. YCEA is the county’s primary business resource for facilitating expansion, funding, redevelopment, networking, business-to-business promotion, advocacy and workforce development among many other services. For over a century, people in York have looked at the Codorus Creek as a body of water abounding with opportunity. The YCEA’s Codorus Creek Beautification Initiative moves these prior design and planning efforts forward by hydraulically modeling and re-envisioning the creek channel in the City of York and Spring Garden Township. The concept includes improving public access along both sides of the creek, installing recreational amenities, and enhancing the ecological habitat of the creek through storm water mitigation, urban flood control, and native plantings – all done without private land acquisition. These improvements will connect neighborhoods, people and services, and will reimagine the Codorus Creek as a true public space for all.  The first of seven phases of the Codorus Greenway project entails moving back flood walls between an area just north of King Street and just north of Philadelphia Street. This project brings together partners from across the City of York and York County and will serve to better connect residents and visitors to our creek. The engineering effort by local partners Buchart Horn and C.S. Davidson is integral to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ mission of flood control, ensuring the design enhances the ecological health of the Codorus Creek as well as maintains urban flood capacity as a primary service, bringing new life to our waterway.