Drainage work to start soon around Little League park

Clark County

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February 5, 2010

By DAVID A. MANN The News and Tribune Fri Feb 05, 2010, 07:01 PM EST

The Clarksville Redevelopment Commission met Thursday night. The following items were not published with the main story about Eastern Boulevard on Friday.

• Engineer Harold Hart noted that a preconstruction meeting would take place Friday as work is set to begin soon on drainage issues around the Clarksville Little League Park. Stormwater drainage has been a problem at the facility since it opened in April.

An interceptor will be installed in the area to collect drainage from the park and surrounding areas. The commission also approved an additional $1,450 to purchase easements for that project. That amount was in addition to the $11,000 it spent on drainage easements on nearby Auburn Avenue, Kopp Lane and Dartmouth Drive last month.

Hart said the work should be complete, at least at the park, by late March — in time for the baseball season.

• The commission approved a $5,000 allocation to the Clarksville Historical Society. The society wants to commission a documentary film on the former Colgate-Palmolive Co. property, which closed in 2007.

The building is historical significance, both as a major employer for decades and because it was formerly an Indiana prison. The about 60-minute film will cost $10,000 to produce. Troy McCormick, of production company Natural Concepts, has agreed to underwrite half of the costs in exchange for the bulk of the revenue. He’ll get $17 of every $20 copy of the film sold. The historical society will get the rest.

“Something like this can be used in the schools,” said Don Tetley, president of the commission.

Society President Jane Sarles said it could also be used as a marketing tool.

“It has more uses than just sitting in a museum,” she said.

Fisher called it “a good investment in our community” and the commission approved it unanimously.

• The commission approved $185,000 for design work on the Ohio River Greenway.

The project seeks to connect river fronts in Clarksville, Jeffersonville and New Albany with a linear park and multiuse path.

larksville’s Thursday night allocation paid for design of the path between the Jeffersonville-Clarksville line and the Falls of the Ohio State Park Interpretive Center. The Army Corps of Engineers, the agency in charge of the project, will match the funding.

— Staff Writer David A. Mann