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What is Fort Wayne doing to clean up our rivers?

03/13/2017  |  BY cancelprint_rfw

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Fort Wayne is investing $240 million to upgrade the sewage treatment plant so that it can take and treat more sewage. It is also constructing new storm sewers and building a large tunnel in the bedrock under Fort Wayne that will store sewage during rainy weather then take it to the sewage treatment plant later when the plant can treat it.

The city is working to reduce other pollutants that get into the rivers from rainwater runoff by implementing programs such as the rain garden program to slow down the rainwater runoff and take out some of the pollutants before the water gets to a river.

In addition to these efforts, the city has begun to implement the Riparian Management Plan brought forth by the consulting group Biohabitats. You can review that full plan here.