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Vol. 12 No. 22
Including the Cultural Districts and Midtown: Meridian-Kessler, Butler-Tarkington, and Meridian St.
Oct 30 - Nov 13, 2015
B E T T E R The sewage lift station at Broad Ripple Park.
Everything you always wanted to know about the canal... By Alan Hague
alan@broadripplegazette.com
Part Five Continuing on with buildings that readers have asked about, we moved to back north in our talks. We started at Broad Ripple Park. I asked about the brick building at the north east corner of the park on Evanston. “That brick building is a lift station,” explained Ed Malone, Director of Water Production for Citizens. “It actually goes three or four levels down into the ground, it is a sewage lift station. And, it pumps sanitary sewage from the north east side of Indianapolis through a force main that basically comes down...kind of follows the Monon, to a large part, and comes down and dumps into the main sewer further downstream. It primarily picks up the sanitary sewage that is outside of the combined sewer district and pushes it into the main sewer system.” “You’ll notice it has chemical feed on the backside. You’ve probably seen the red stains, if you looked on the back of the building. And that’s because we feed iron, basically, ferric, at that location to minimize odors. That is why it doesn’t smell like a lift station. We keep the odors down by feeding ferrous material there.” I asked, “Is that what the Warfleigh building is also?” “No,” Ed responded, “Warfleigh… when you are going over the Meridian Street bridge over White River, if you look directly downstream, you’ll see a large pump station directly at the Meridian Street overpass, that is the Warfleigh Pump Station. Now, that is a storm water pumping station. We, through our United Water contract, oversee that still, but, that is a storm water pumping station, that is not sanitary pumping station. It is very large.” Followers of this canal series will remember that Ed explained earlier that if it is part of the sanitary system (water on the way to the treatment facility, The Warfleigh storm pumping station built in 1958. clean water and sanitary sewers), then it falls under Citizens. If it is storm water then is falls under the City of Indianapolis. This one in Warfleigh is more complicated. United manages the Warfleigh Storm Water Pump Station for the City of Indianapolis, but Citizens oversees United’s operation. Ed added, “That was created back after the floods in late 50s. You don’t want to be sitting on the outfall of that thing (in White River) when we start pumping out of it. You’ll end up a fairly good distance downstream.” Then I asked about the building south of Broad Ripple at Arsenal Park. It is at the corner of 49th and Haverford Avenue.
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B L O C K
Better Block took over Broad Ripple Avenue on Saturday, October 17. Four empty shops were turned into pop-up shops. There were places to sit and enjoy food and coffee along the sidewalks. Right: Addie Hirschten, banner artist in Vol. 11 #17, painted in the old Scholar’s Inn. Below: BlueIndy had cars on display and offered free test drives and t-shirts.
Banner Artist of the issue The banner artist of this issue is Jeremiah Little. “As an artist living in So-Bro for almost 20 years now I feel like I’m living a dream come true! I’m creating art that is the culmination of many years’ work, I’m getting opportunities to show it regularly, and I live and work in a great place. I love the Broad Ripple community and I don’t know of another area in Indiana where so many artists, musicians, and awesome people live!” “I do many forms of art: tables, antique maps, and unique wall art. I like to mix it up so I never get bored. I use wood instead of canvas because I like how sturdy it is. Next I use mostly metallic paints for a nice shimmer. Finally I coat the piece with Epoxy to give it a glass shine. I love hearing the responses to my work as people experience them. “Truly unique” and “I have never seen anything like this before” are the number one responses I get at art shows.” “For my next show my art will be at Mass Ave. Wine the entire month of December! I will have lots of new pieces, including African Sunsets, Antique Maps and much more. Come see my unique pieces! I’d love to see you there!” For more information about Jeremiah, go to JeremiahStudios.com To celebrate the 11th year of the Broad Ripple Gazette we started featuring a year of local artists by allowing them to interpret our banner, while incorporating the words “The Broad Ripple Gazette”. Contact us at info@broadripplegazette.com to inquire if any open issues remain. Still looking for cartoonist, tattoo artist, pen and ink, etc.
1 Banner Jeremiah Little
4 Buzzing Around Town
8 Round the Ripple
11 Random Rippling Hoods
14 Gettin’ Ripped in Ripple
1 Canal part 5
5 BR Brewpub Quiz
9 Random Rippling Hill
12 Random Rippling steam
14 Random Rippling Vase
1 Better Block
6 Classified Ads
9 Wine Scene Jill A. Ditmire
12 Hidden History
15 Directory
2 Random Rippling Scand.
6 Public Notices
9 Where in the Village?
12 Sudoku
16 Maps
3 Calendar
7 Local Contacts
10 Random Rippling Luciana
13 Historic Ad
19 Right in my Own Backyard
4 Poetic Thoughts
7 ‘Mistakes winner
10 Random Rippling tox
13 Crossword
20 Random Rippling pumpkin