river access for all

Morrow’s Meadow park is a highly popular public park in Yorktown, lying in between Buck Creek and the White River, which converge at the park’s southwestern edge. Due to severe erosion, the Town installed bin blocks along the stream banks without acquiring any permits. The bin blocks failed and the Town was put under a compliance order to restore the creek by IDEM. In the fall of 2014 Flatland resources completed the “build” phase of a design-build project based along Buck Creek, in Morrow’s Meadow park of Yorktown, Indiana. The project addressed extreme erosion concerns along 725 linear feet of Buck Creek, replacing the bin blocks and collapsing riverbanks with vegetated geolifts, live staking, riparian plantings, and a stabilized bankfull bench. The project also stabilized the stream’s pools & riffles, through the installation of two J-hooks. Conditions before and after construction were recorded and analyzed with cross sections and designed based upon Rosgen’s Priority III restoration approach. FLR was also hired to complete a three-year monitoring plan to ensure and report the success of the project to both the client and the permitting agencies (IDEM & IDNR).