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Articles about
recent improvements to Pleasant Run
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The
work of Harshman's students has inspired
several additional community
Clean-Ups days.
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Students
discovered that the sewage contamination of Pogue’s and Pleasant Runs
was actually representative of a citywide problem; the city council
meetings served as a forum for much discussion on this large-scale
issue. The class also learned that the city was in the midst of
developing a plan to alleviate the unsanitary bacterial loads that made
the Pogue’s and Pleasant Runs and all other waterways in Indianapolis
dangerous even after the identifiable trash had been removed. The city
has already commenced making the following changes to the local runs as
part of the plan for citywide improvements.
Pleasant Run has been
outfitted with inflatable dams at Ellenberger
Park and Howe Middle School. Further sewer separation is planned
upstream from Bean Creek and Garfield Park. These changes are
intended
to protect the areas where children often play. Sewer separation has
been planned to eliminate the overflow of
Pogue’s Run at Forest Manor Park. An inflatable dam is also being
used
in this run to reduce sewage overflow in Brookside Park. Combined
sewage overflow has been routed away from Harshman Middle School and a
nearby high school and is now directed into an underground tunnels
where students will have minimal chance of coming in contact with the
contaminated water. |
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