This story posted this afternoon on the IndyStar.com website begins:
A plan to fill 15 acres of White River floodway for commercial development and build a 10-acre diversion channel as a substitute is now dead in the water.Posted by Marcia Oddi at March 18, 2004 03:51 PMState officials said the proposed land reconstruction at 96th Street and Allisonville Road was denied after Centre Properties failed to show it would contain flooding and not endanger property there and upstream.
"I imagine that there's going to be some very relieved people living at 116th Street," said Hamilton County Surveyor Kenton Ward, technical advisor to the county's drainage board and an opponent of the Centre Properties proposal.