Will the stormwater utility increase eliminate flooding in Frog Hollow, Ravenswood and all other neighborhoods?
A. No. The stormwater utility will help improve drainage and flood control in many areas, but it is not possible to eliminate all neighborhood flooding. The city will continue to invest in maintenance improvements in the Frog Hollow and Ravenswood neighborhoods, but their location in the flood plain of the White River makes future flooding an inevitable way of life for those residents. Q. I don’t fish or swim in the White River and don’t live in the inner city. How does this program benefit me? A. Projects are needed throughout Marion County, not just in the inner city. In addition to our long-term plan to reduce sewer overflows, we must extend sanitary sewers to neighborhoods now on septic systems, improve drainage and flood control, upgrade our treatment plants and provide more capacity in our separate sewer system outside the old city limits. Although the sewers are sometimes “out-of-sight, out-of-mind,” they are just as important to our city’s future as our roads, bridges and highw
