Ever since a flood-control project’s completion 30 years ago on Swan Creek’s opposite bank, the slope on the waterway’s Wright Street side has slowly eroded and sunk, Jim Leonard says.
A city project to stabilize the slope in the 600 and 700 blocks of Wright is scheduled to close the street for 60 days, starting Wednesday.
“Finally something’s happening, all these years later,” Mr. Leonard, who lives in the 700 block a few houses away from the failing slope, said Tuesday morning. “… Hopefully they’ll make it nice, stop the erosion.”…