The city's 20-year Clean Streams-Healthy Neighborhoods plan aims to improve the health and quality of life in many neighborhoods throughout Marion County by investing in improved sewage collection, treatment and flood control.
As part of this program, DPW is implementing an $825 million capital improvement plan for 2009 through 2013. Projects include:
- Reducing raw sewage overflows into our waterways, as required under federal law
- Preventing an additional 1.42 billion gallons of raw sewage from overflowing into waterways
- Bringing city sewers to approximately 7,000 homes on septic systems
- Expanding and maintaining our two sewage treatment plants
- Rehabilitating aging sewers and lift stations
- Adding sewer capacity in rapidly developing areas of the county
Key sanitary sewer projects and highlights for 2009 through 2013 include:
- An aggressive plan to bring sewers to approximately 7,000 homes on septic systems
- Beginning engineering planning and design of the Fall Creek/White River tunnel storage and conveyance system
- Beginning engineering planning and design of the Pleasant Run overflow collector system
- Beginning construction of the Deep Rock Tunnel Connector project, formerly known as the Belmont-Southport Interplant Connect
- Begin constructing the Belmont North Parallel Interceptor
- Constructing wet weather treatment improvements at the Belmont Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant to increase capacity to 300 million gallons per day
- Beginning construction of wet weather treatment improvements at the Southport Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant to increase capacity to 300 million gallons per day
- Upgrading Lift Station 507 near Broad Ripple
- Capturing an additional 1.42 billion gallons of raw sewage by the end of 2013
Key stormwater projects and highlights for 2009 through 2013 include:
- Drainage improvements along Kessler Boulevard that will benefit residents as well as thousands of commuters
- Improvements to Eagle Creek dam
- Continuation of the Indianapolis North White River Flood Damage Reduction project
- Drainage improvements in the Frog Hollow neighborhood that will divert about 80 percent of water away from the neighborhood during the majority of floods