Indy’s City-County Council approved $50 million in new bonds this month to tackle a backlog of drainage projects across the city. About $6 million is expected to go to the Fountain Square neighborhood, Department of Public Works Director Dan Parker told councilors at an August committee meeting. Fletcher Place, CYO’s home, is connected to Fountain Square across Fletcher Avenue and Virginia Avenue; Interstate 65 separates the two neighborhoods.
Another $50 million in federal pandemic recovery funds will go toward similar stormwater undertakings.
“We do have more and more rain events that are significant in nature, in terms of the volume of water that’s coming down,” Parker said. “We’ve had rain events that—I talked about Fountain Square being under 2 or 3 feet of water, just because it comes down so fast. And with those types of rain events, you know, the infrastructure needs to keep up.”