https://www.in.gov/idem/nps/files/wmp_pleasantrun.pdf
100= pages, pdf, pleasant run watershed management plan. reaing it now.
Mundell & Associates
Christopher Burke Engineering
Enviro-Assist
listed as friends of pleasant run,circa 2011.
Some of the watershed’s earliest settlers,
such as the Askren and the Christian family, homesteaded on land along Pleasant Run as early as 1826.
The Askren home still sits on the northwest bank of Pleasant Run just north of 16th Street. The Christian
home, built in the 1840s, is on Brookville Road. The family raised shorthorn cattle. Christian Park was
made possible by a gift to the city from the heirs of the Christian family.
The
many fine homes along the Pleasant Run Parkway show how a city can be designed on a floodplain and
yet retain the beauty of nature.
For all their beauty, Pleasant Run...
A newly completed 44 acre basin at
Emerson Avenue and I-70 should solve the flooding problems created by Pogues Run for neighborhoods
east of I-65 and downtown. The city’s Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) problem, including CSOs along
Pleasant Run and Bean Creek, is being solved through a series of underground tunnels designed to store
over 54 million gallons of raw sewage before transporting it to the wastewater treatment plant.
Pleasant Run Watershed is underlain by limestone, dolomite, siltstone, and shale of Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian ages.
The soils are loams and silt/loams that formed from glacial deposits left from the Wisconsin Glacier, which reached its maximum
extent 18,000 years ago. These deposits range in thickness from 100 to 250 feet, except immediately near the White River
where they may be less than 50 feet thick.
The beginning of the Pleasant Run Watershed, also
known as the headwaters, is just north of the Interstate 465 and Interstate 70 junction on Indianapolis’ eastside. The elevation
at the headwaters is 876 feet. From the headwaters, Pleasant Run flows southwest until it enters the White River, just south of
downtown Indianapolis. During this trip, the stream’s elevation drops 201 feet.
The bioretention cell in Plate 8 collects storm water
into a semi-natural area that filters and infiltrates it into
the ground rather than releasing it untreated into Fall
Creek. If similar practices could be added to Pleasant
Run Watershed, they would help address the following
stakeholder concerns: Lack of wildlife along stream
corridor and in stream, bank erosion in watershed, the
need to reduce storm water, and a lack of buffers along
streams. Existing agreements between Indy Parks and
the Indiana Department of Transportation will make it
difficult to add bioretention or other practices along the
Indy Parks Greenways, so these practices would likely
need to be installed on private land.
