Award Description

Smock Fansler hand formed pervious concrete curbs to attain desired form and compression for optimal void space and compressive strength.

The Ohio Street CSO Abatement Pilot Project was a partnership effort to improve the 600 to 700 block of East Ohio Street. The blocks are a gateway into the downtown area from interstate 65. Implementing Green Infrastructure (GI) not only improves the stormwater management issue, it also beautifies a significant transportation corridor into the city. The project improved drainage, handicap accessibility, and deteriorating urban infrastructure to capitalize on recent private investment in the area as a means to continue strengthening the Cole-Noble neighborhood pedestrian environment.

The project incorporated 2650 square feet of pervious concrete sidewalk, 900 linear feet of pervious concrete curb and gutter and approximately 750 square feet of rain garden into a larger Rebuild Indy initiative. These GI retrofits manage runoff from approximately 60,000 square feet of impervious surface and will remove over 1,350,000 gallons of stormwater from the CSO in an area that did not have any existing stormwater infrastructure in place, in a typical year, while creating a safer corridor for pedestrians walking along and across Ohio Street.

The $53,000 project included a $5,000 grant from United Water to Indianapolis Downtown Inc. for the construction of the rain garden. The remainder of the project was funded through countywide stormwater budget. The entire project was completed by local designers and contractors. Williams Creek Consulting provided sustainable site engineering and landscape architecture services for the design and implementation of the GI elements.

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