Converted from paper version of the Broad Ripple Gazette (v13n02)
Round the Ripple - by Bill Malcolm
posted: Jan. 22, 2016
Spat breaks out over Flood Wall plan deal after Butler Tarkington protests
The newly revised flood wall plan endorsed by the City has pleased the Warfleigh neighborhood group but not those in Butler Tarkington and Rocky Ripple.
The Save the Warfleigh group supports the revised Indianapolis North Flood Damage Reduction Project ("project") which seeks to remove from the flood plain approximately 2,100 homes and businesses. Removing from the flood plain the approximately 4,000 people who live in these homes protects them from the very real and present threat of severe flooding according to the group. It also protects them from the financial burden of annual premiums for flood insurance, which, for some are in the range of $8,000 - $10,000 per year.
The Butler-Tarkington neighborhood apparently does not support the City's decision and recently distributed a call to once again delay the project. They claim that the Westfield Boulevard alignment creates damage to the Town of Rocky Ripple in a major flood event and effectively prevents Rocky Ripple from future flood protection.
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