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NEWS FROM PLAINFIELD, AUGUST 2017
Hadley Road to Close for Four Months Following the opening of the newly constructed roundabout at Saratoga & Concord, work on the Hadley/Moon Corridor will shift to Hadley Road between Byscane Blvd and Center Street. This is all part of a Town program coordinated with Hendricks County to make improvements to the increasingly traveled corridor of Hadley and Moon Roads. The next area to be improved consists of recontructing 3,000 feet of Hadley Road from the existing two-lane section to a three-lane pavement section, adding a center turn lane. The pavement section will be bordered by curb and gutter with the existing pedestrian path being maintained on the north side. New stormwater installations will also be part of the project to control runoff waters. A full closure of Hadley Road will allow for much quicker construction while keeping project costs to a minimum. The improvements will be completed in two phases. During Phase 1, which is anticipated to take 60 days, the Hadley Road Bridge over White Lick Creek will be completely closed for deck rehabilitation. Access to Hadley Road from CRs 675 E and 725 E will also be restricted. Access within the marked areas of construction will be for local traffic only. Most residents should consider Moon Road as the preferred detour option. During Phase 2, which will take approximately 45 days during the months of October and November, access to CR 675 E and 725 E will be restored at the start of Phase 2. Residents in Glen Haven and Center Ridge as well as those along Sugar Grove Road will have their access restored from the east. Glen Haven West will
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continue to be routed along Moon Road to access their neighborhood from the west. Thru-traffic will be fully restricted during both phases of the project. Communities along Saratoga Parkway as well as Sugar Grove, Forest Creek, Vandalia, and Legacy Farms are encouraged to use Quaker Boulevard to Main Street during the closure. Residents of Center Ridge and Glen Haven should access their neighborhood from the west using Glen Haven Boulevard. The primary entrance to Center Ridge at Hall Road will be closed. Residents of Glen Haven West should access the neighborhood from the west using Byscane Boulevard. Residents with access to Sugar Grove Road (CR 700E) are expected to use the Center Street detour route. Those who live south of Hadley Road have the option of using Moon Road to Main Street or utilize the existing network of County roads to the south.
PHONE: 317-839-2561
Native Grasses on Quaker Boulevard to Save Time and Money When Established As a part of the Quaker Boulevard Gateway Enhancement Project—which has included new lighting, new banners, a crosswalk at Hadley Road, monuments, and landscaping at the major intersections—the center of the medians have been planted with native prairie seed. These seedings include native grasses, wildflowers, and other flowering plants. When full developed, the extensive variety of wildflowers are expected to provide a changing palette of colors throughout the growing season that will keep them visually interesting until they go dormant after the first killing frost in the fall. “The native prairie seed will take a minimum of three years to establish,” said Kevin Parsons, a landscape engineer who provided consulting services on this project. “Then they will then continue to multiply through natural reseeding over the seasonal cycles. Once established, the median grasses will need to be mowed only once a year during the winter-spring dormant season. This will save the Town approximately $20,000 per year in reduced mowing, and they will never need watering or fertilizing like grass turf would. In total, the Town will have reduced mowing, watering, fertilizing, and dramatically reduced labor costs.” Due to some unforeseen, unauthorized mowing, Parsons noted, the native plantings will continue to be in the initial phase of establishment this year. “Efforts are being made to reduce the massive weed growth caused by the unauthorized mowing with selective herbicides,” he said. “A re-sowing of the native seeds will occur this fall and winter, which is the preferred time of year to set the seeds. The edges of the medians were planted with turf grass and are being mowed weekly to insure a clean and maintained appearance.” The native median plantings are under an ongoing establishment-maintenance program with a local Plainfield business, Williams Creek Management, to ensure their establishment. The next phase in the Gateway program is to complete the medians on Quaker Boulevard with native tree plantings. Once these are budgeted for and installed, they will add to the native and natural landscape and appearance of the gateway into Plainfield.
Wastewater Treatment Plant Summer Educational Tours Wednesday, August 16 6 to 7:30 p.m. North Wastewater Treatment Plant 990 S. Center Street Last public tour for 2017! Come learn how the Town’s Public Works employees keep your water safe every day of the year!
Endless Summer Nights and Weekends Now Includes Indoor Time! Endless Summer Nights and Weekends are not just for the outdoor Splash Island anymore. Now, you can come indoors, too! Because school is back in session in August and that takes out many of our high school lifeguards, we are unable to staff the outdoor water park during weekdays. We’ve been limited to having Splash Island open on Wednesday evenings (6 to 9 pm), Saturdays (10 am to 6 pm) and Sundays (noon to 6 pm). Starting this year, however, Splash Island adds indoor hours at our indoor water park! Beginning August 2, in addition to Wednesday nights and weekends outdoors, you can head indoors and get your Caribbean Island vacation fix on Mondays (noon to 9 pm), Tuesdays (noon to 6 pm), Thursdays (noon to 6 pm) and Fridays (noon to 9 pm). Since so many of our patrons are back on a school schedule, the crowds during the day are smaller and fit more easily into the indoor space. And because our indoor space is smaller, it requires fewer lifeguards, allowing us to handle it with our college-age and regular staff of lifeguards. So even though it will be still hot outside, you can cool off inside with a lot of the same features! We have a two story water slide, a zero-depth entry pool and interactive children’s play area, an indoor water basketball goal, a gentle winding river, pulsating vortex, and birthday party areas. If you’re not bound by school starting back up in August, join us for Endless Summer Nights and Weekends’ new expanded everyday schedule, indoor and out!
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NEWS FROM PLAINFIELD, AUGUST 2017
Hadley Road to Close for Four Months Following the opening of the newly constructed roundabout at Saratoga & Concord, work on the Hadley/Moon Corridor will shift to Hadley Road between Byscane Blvd and Center Street. This is all part of a Town program coordinated with Hendricks County to make improvements to the increasingly traveled corridor of Hadley and Moon Roads. The next area to be improved consists of recontructing 3,000 feet of Hadley Road from the existing two-lane section to a three-lane pavement section, adding a center turn lane. The pavement section will be bordered by curb and gutter with the existing pedestrian path being maintained on the north side. New stormwater installations will also be part of the project to control runoff waters. A full closure of Hadley Road will allow for much quicker construction while keeping project costs to a minimum. The improvements will be completed in two phases. During Phase 1, which is anticipated to take 60 days, the Hadley Road Bridge over White Lick Creek will be completely closed for deck rehabilitation. Access to Hadley Road from CRs 675 E and 725 E will also be restricted. Access within the marked areas of construction will be for local traffic only. Most residents should consider Moon Road as the preferred detour option. During Phase 2, which will take approximately 45 days during the months of October and November, access to CR 675 E and 725 E will be restored at the start of Phase 2. Residents in Glen Haven and Center Ridge as well as those along Sugar Grove Road will have their access restored from the east. Glen Haven West will
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continue to be routed along Moon Road to access their neighborhood from the west. Thru-traffic will be fully restricted during both phases of the project. Communities along Saratoga Parkway as well as Sugar Grove, Forest Creek, Vandalia, and Legacy Farms are encouraged to use Quaker Boulevard to Main Street during the closure. Residents of Center Ridge and Glen Haven should access their neighborhood from the west using Glen Haven Boulevard. The primary entrance to Center Ridge at Hall Road will be closed. Residents of Glen Haven West should access the neighborhood from the west using Byscane Boulevard. Residents with access to Sugar Grove Road (CR 700E) are expected to use the Center Street detour route. Those who live south of Hadley Road have the option of using Moon Road to Main Street or utilize the existing network of County roads to the south.
PHONE: 317-839-2561
Native Grasses on Quaker Boulevard to Save Time and Money When Established As a part of the Quaker Boulevard Gateway Enhancement Project—which has included new lighting, new banners, a crosswalk at Hadley Road, monuments, and landscaping at the major intersections—the center of the medians have been planted with native prairie seed. These seedings include native grasses, wildflowers, and other flowering plants. When full developed, the extensive variety of wildflowers are expected to provide a changing palette of colors throughout the growing season that will keep them visually interesting until they go dormant after the first killing frost in the fall. “The native prairie seed will take a minimum of three years to establish,” said Kevin Parsons, a landscape engineer who provided consulting services on this project. “Then they will then continue to multiply through natural reseeding over the seasonal cycles. Once established, the median grasses will need to be mowed only once a year during the winter-spring dormant season. This will save the Town approximately $20,000 per year in reduced mowing, and they will never need watering or fertilizing like grass turf would. In total, the Town will have reduced mowing, watering, fertilizing, and dramatically reduced labor costs.” Due to some unforeseen, unauthorized mowing, Parsons noted, the native plantings will continue to be in the initial phase of establishment this year. “Efforts are being made to reduce the massive weed growth caused by the unauthorized mowing with selective herbicides,” he said. “A re-sowing of the native seeds will occur this fall and winter, which is the preferred time of year to set the seeds. The edges of the medians were planted with turf grass and are being mowed weekly to insure a clean and maintained appearance.” The native median plantings are under an ongoing establishment-maintenance program with a local Plainfield business, Williams Creek Management, to ensure their establishment. The next phase in the Gateway program is to complete the medians on Quaker Boulevard with native tree plantings. Once these are budgeted for and installed, they will add to the native and natural landscape and appearance of the gateway into Plainfield.
Wastewater Treatment Plant Summer Educational Tours Wednesday, August 16 6 to 7:30 p.m. North Wastewater Treatment Plant 990 S. Center Street Last public tour for 2017! Come learn how the Town’s Public Works employees keep your water safe every day of the year!
Endless Summer Nights and Weekends Now Includes Indoor Time! Endless Summer Nights and Weekends are not just for the outdoor Splash Island anymore. Now, you can come indoors, too! Because school is back in session in August and that takes out many of our high school lifeguards, we are unable to staff the outdoor water park during weekdays. We’ve been limited to having Splash Island open on Wednesday evenings (6 to 9 pm), Saturdays (10 am to 6 pm) and Sundays (noon to 6 pm). Starting this year, however, Splash Island adds indoor hours at our indoor water park! Beginning August 2, in addition to Wednesday nights and weekends outdoors, you can head indoors and get your Caribbean Island vacation fix on Mondays (noon to 9 pm), Tuesdays (noon to 6 pm), Thursdays (noon to 6 pm) and Fridays (noon to 9 pm). Since so many of our patrons are back on a school schedule, the crowds during the day are smaller and fit more easily into the indoor space. And because our indoor space is smaller, it requires fewer lifeguards, allowing us to handle it with our college-age and regular staff of lifeguards. So even though it will be still hot outside, you can cool off inside with a lot of the same features! We have a two story water slide, a zero-depth entry pool and interactive children’s play area, an indoor water basketball goal, a gentle winding river, pulsating vortex, and birthday party areas. If you’re not bound by school starting back up in August, join us for Endless Summer Nights and Weekends’ new expanded everyday schedule, indoor and out!
