Learn how the removal of the remaining portions of the Emrichsville Dam along the White River will affect neighboring communities at a public meeting May 12.
The meeting will be held by Mapping Purpose LLC at 6 p.m. at the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 1301 N. Goodlet Ave.
The dam was located just south of the 16th Street Bridge over the White River near what is now Belmont Beach. It was built by Indianapolis in 1899 to deepen the water at Riverside Park to the north for boating.
The Emrichsville Dam partially collapsed in 2018, and the city removed its center portion and replaced it with rocks.
This fall, the Department of Public Works will remove the rocks and dam remnants in the river to improve safety and enhance river ecology.
For more information, contact Mapping Purpose owner Kay Hawthorne via email at 317-296-5802.
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